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Detroit is the latest metro area vying to become a medical destination. The hope is that its hospital systems can draw patients from outside its region, helping the local economy. In short, Detroit wants to be more like Cleveland.

Updated 10/20/11 at 9:28 a.m.Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril says Moammar Gadhafi has been killed."We have been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Eight Forty-Eight wondered if the experience of the McGriff family, featured in WBEZ's Erica Hunter's report for Out of the Shadows, was an anomaly – or a typical scenario.

A seminary that's been a fixture in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood since 1926 is moving downtown.The Meadville Lombard Theological School is moving to the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. The Unitarian Universalist seminary shifted from a residential school to distance learning.

Forecasters expect storm force wind gusts to ease during the day Thursday, after generating waves up to 25 feet across southern Lake Michigan Thursday morning.  But flood warnings remain in effect for some communities along Lake Michigan.The National Weather Service issued a flood warning for p

Illinois patients once again can use a public website to find out whether their doctors and chiropractors have shady histories.The Physician Profile became available Wednesday on the website for the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.It allows consumers to check out their d

Three years ago, the advanced battery industry in the United States existed only in the imagination.