• As expected, the University of Illinois approved a 9.5 percent tuition increase for incoming freshmen.
• Erin Hughes, the New Trier teen charged in the recent hit-and-run accident, has been allowed off electronic monitoring.
• Ten people were hurt this afternoon, one in serious-to-critical condition, in a crash involving a CTA bus on the city's Northwest side.

Francisco Rendon, 49, of 3711 S. California Ave., was charged on Thursday with a misdemeanor offense after his unlicensed dentistry practice was uncovered in the back of a Brighton Park auto garage by police. According to a Deering District police sergeant, Rendon was arrested after police received a tip about a man running a dentist practice out of a garage. Police discovered dentures, dental medical instruments, surgical gloves, and Novocaine in the garage. more ›

After working the night shift at Pockets in Lincoln Park, Victorino Valle pulled his minivan in the garage of his Brighton Park home and just before closing the garage door, turned to see his 8-year old son Alexander in a state of shock. Alexander told his father that he heard a baby crying in the alley. His parents discovered a crying newborn lying in a trash can and immediately called 911. According to Chi-Town Daily News, when the police arrived they found a two-week old boy in the trash can which was filling with rain water. more ›

A newborn baby boy was abandoned in a garbage can in the Southwest Side neighborhood of Brighton Park, Chicago Breaking News reports. more ›