Tax credits and historically low mortgage rates have failed to lift home prices so far this year. Prices fell 0.5 percent in March from February, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city index released Tuesday .... Full Story
Oil giant BP said its internal investigation of the unchecked Gulf oil spill is largely focused on work done by other companies as a new government report Tuesday showed workers at the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling .... Full Story
Average scores on the ACT college entrance exam inched downward this year, yet slightly more students who took the test proved to be prepared for college, according to a report released Wednesday.... Full Story
Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama Thursday that imposes sweeping new regulations on Wall Street and creates new protections for millions of consumers..... Full Story
The Chicago Transit Authority has its first articulated hybrid bus paid for with federal stimulus funds... Full Story
 
Offshore drilling here to stay, but changes coming
BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has focused attention on the petroleum industry's loose regulation and failure to plan for the worst. ....  Full Story

Congressional panel prepares hearing on Asian carp
A congressional panel is preparing to hear from Obama administration officials about their plan for protecting the Great Lakes from Asian carp... Full Story

Jurors were close to convicting Rod Blagojevich
They were close. After three weeks of respectful but increasingly tense deliberations, 11 jurors were ready to convict Rod Blagojevich of what prosecutors called a "political ....  Full Story
Palin tops Blago for sitting duck award
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the winner of its annual Sitting Duck Award, a tongue-in-cheek honor that pokes fun at the most ridiculed newsmakers in the United States... Full Story

 

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Daley to apologize for parking meter problems
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says the city "totally screwed up" the implementation of a $1.15 billion lease of city parking meters to a private operator... Full Story

Rare earthquake rattles northern Ill.; no damage
A small pre-dawn earthquake has hit northern Illinois, startling residents as far away as Michigan and Iowa, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported..... Full Story

Illinois leading nation in bank failures for 2009
 Illinois leads the nation in bank failures so far this year, and a banking group warns that more failures are likely...
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Life in Obama's Chicago neighborhood
 A jogger has to alter his route because of security barricades. But a local barber shop is enjoying a tourism boom. And neighborhood residents have gained a reason to brag to friends — all thanks to President Barack Obama... Full Story
Chicago crime down 10 percent so far this year
 Chicago police say there was a 10.4 percent drop in total crime citywide in June compared to the same month last year... Full Story

Jumbled bones at cemetery may be hard to ID
Human remains strewn amid overgrown weeds have deteriorated into jumbled bones. Paper records in a rusted metal cabinet have dissolved into dust...
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 U.S. News

Chicago gun ban on way out, but mayor vows fight
A Supreme Court ruling finding that Americans have the right to bear arms anywhere they live almost certainly means the end of Chicago's decades-old handgun ban, but it may not make handgun ownership there much easier if the city's powerful mayor has his way....  Full Story
 

• NYC man plunges 40 stories, lands on car, survives
• Some searchers still expect to see rare woodpecker
• College prices up again even as economy falters
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Meltdown jolts consumers from financial fairyland
The stock market bounced back, just as it has for nearly three decades. It just doesn't feel that way. Last year's financial meltdown knocked the swagger out of Americans' views toward investing.    Full Story
 

• Honda president pushes founder energy, hybrids
• Budget deficit tops $1 trillion for first time
• Fla. judge delays hearings in UBS secrecy case
 
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Boston airport tests radar to avoid bird strikes
ELogan International Airport is testing a specialized radar system the Air Force uses to protect its fighters and NASA uses to guard its $2 billion shuttles, as it considers stepping up its efforts at preventing collisions between birds and airplanes.    Full Story

• Still traveling for business, but carefully
• What happens when an airline cancels your flight?
• At Ga. aquarium, guests swim with whale sharks

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