• Controversy in Evergeen Park where parents of Evergreen Park Community High School students are alleging they were barred from entering the school's graduation ceremony.
• Gang member Steve Bryant was sentenced to 85 years for the 2006 murder of marine Ricardo Martinez.
• Cook County Public Defender Abishi Cunningham claims his office is out of money to defend death penalty cases.

Plans to decrease beds and move patients from the University of Chicago's emergency room to other South Side facilities have been halted amid protest within and outside the university community. more ›

• Today's "totally not a surprise" headline: "O'Hare remains worst for on-time departures."
• In the wake of job and budget cuts, the ER at the University of Chicago Medical Center is about to get a little more selective in who it takes in.
• The man who killed himself after a police chase in L.A. last night has been identified as former Chicagoan Mustafa "Moe" Mustafa.

The job cuts keep getting deeper. The University of Chicago Medical Center announced this morning that they will be eliminating 450 jobs (with hundreds more being lost through attrition) as well as cutting $100 million from its annual budget. On Friday, Dr. Skip Garcia, chairman of the University of Chicago Department of Medicine since May 2005, resigned his position but plans to stay on as a faculty member. more ›