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South suburban Markham drivers got quite a surprise early Sunday morning when a horse that had gotten loose onto I-57 from a nearby ranch caused some minor traffic problems, before jumping a fence and returning back to its ranch.

Eager to join everyone(in the media)'s search for the truth about Stacy Peterson, a celebrity mentalist has offered to lend his thought-reading abilities to the case.

Deanna Glass, 14, is still missing. The South Side girl hasn't been seen since Tuesday. Mark your calendars, law makers: Blago has called for a special session on Nov 28 to talk transit funding. Attendance is mandatory! Eh, no it's not, but still. Another bad day for Todd Stroger, this time because his political fund was fined for failing to report all the contributions it received. Remember to buckle up while in Thanksgiving transit....

We were hoping this story would have a happy ending but weren't too surprised to wake up this morning to find out it didn't. Alma Mendez had been missing since Sunday afternoon; her body was found yesterday at 2 p.m. in the river next to her jogging path; her throat was slashed. Mendez, a mother of three, had recently separated from her husband. He, along with other with other family members, was interviewed about the...

It's been barely more than 24 hours since Lance Briggs' brand new $450,000 Lamborghini was found wrapped around a pole on the side of the Edens Expressway. In that time, we have learned that he was in fact driving the car at the time of the accident, and as a result on Monday was charged with leaving the scene of an accident -- a misdemeanor-- and ticketed for failure to immediately notify police of a...

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A female friend once told Chicagoist how demeaning and irritating she found the catcalls and wolf-whistles hurled in her direction by construction workers - but that, secretly, she always felt a twinge of self-doubt if a saunter past a construction site yielded no comments. If that holds true across the female spectrum, Chicagoland ladies expecting glances and more from the orange-vested, blue-collar studlets by the side of the road may be disappointed to find out that some of them are actually undercover cops.

As expected, Mayor Daley once again announced a package of gun legislation he hopes state legislators will pass in their coming session that starts January 10. The basic idea behind the package is to "...give the courts the power to fine and shut down gun dealers who help customers avoid background checks; who sell them large numbers of handguns without filing the required reports; or who sell handguns to residents of cities like Chicago where they are illegal."

On Monday the Illinois State Police confirmed that they were investigating a number of allegations of negligence and misconduct against the Governor's security detail made in an ABC7 report. ABC7 launched the investigation during last summer's Democratic National Convention. (For the whole report, including other examples, go here.) They wondered why the Guvna's bodyguards needed to drive state SUVs to Boston when Massachusetts was already providing all state governors with state troopers and vehicles. The...

An article in yesterday's Chicago Tribune explored Gov. Blagojevich's refusal to increase the fee for a state firearms license. Currently the price of a Firearms Owners Identification Card is $5.00 while the article says estimates of the cost of processing the cards vary from at least $7.39 per card to $15.