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Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Why selling Illinois lotto tickets online could hurt convenience stores; what's behind one idea to re-reverse the Chicago River.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe.

Illinois Lottery officials want to offer lottery tickets over the Internet by next spring, and they're closer to their ambitions now that the federal government recently gave the OK for states to create and regulate in-state, online sales of lottery tickets and other gaming products.Both the state a

State and local education officials are reviewing proposals for a charter school at Great Lakes Naval Station in northern Illinois.The Illinois State Board of Education and a school district in North Chicago say they've gotten three applications to run a charter school on the base.The school would b

Two people are dead and four others in critical condition after a shooting inside a fast-food restaurant on Chicago's South Side.Police say two people got into a fight before 7 p.m. Tuesday outside a Church's Chicken restaurant in the Englewood neighborhood.

Authorities say a driver has crashed his car into the wall of a Chicago police station on the city's South Side.No injuries or major damage was reported.Chicago police spokeswoman Amina Greer says the crash happened early Monday.

All week, Eight Forty-Eight presented special encore editions of the show--on Friday, producer Eilee Heikenen-Weiss closed out the week with a final Year in Review.

Sears Holdings Corp. and Chicago’s financial exchanges have quit threatening to pull up stakes now that Illinois has enacted tax breaks for them. But it remains unclear whether state incentives to big companies are wise uses of economic-development resources.