The government on Tuesday lowered to 15 the age at which girls can buy the morning-after pill without a prescription and said the emergency contraception no longer has to be kept behind pharmacy counters.
The Illinois Mortgage Bankers Association says the plan, set for a City Council hearing on Wednesday, would clog courts already struggling with a huge backlog of foreclosure cases.
A former CIA director and the president's pending secretary of energy have high hopes for natural gas in transportation, but its outlook for climate change is unclear.
After two sessions of damning testimony presented by the city which could result in the revocation of his liquor license, embattled Congress Theater owner Eddie Carranza had his turn to defend himself Tuesday.
Cook County got a failing grade for air quality last week. Now the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is involving Chicago schools in pollution monitoring.
