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Quinn's budget includes prison closures, layoffs

Tom Negovan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:18:00 CST

Cutbacks to health care for the poor also part of proposed budget

Gov. Quinn delivered his budget address Wednesday which included closings of prisons, cutbacks to services and layoffs.

DUI charges in wrong-way crash on Kennedy

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:27:00 CST

A woman has DUI charges filed against her after she drove her car the wrong-way on the Kennedy Expressway early this morning, causing a crash that critically injured her and another driver.

Cops: $20,000 and 100 narcotic pills disappear after teen party near McHenry

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:57:00 CST

A party held by two teenagers while their parents were out of town brought about 25 teens to their home in McHenry County—and resulted in $20,000 in cash and about 100 prescription narcotic pills disappearing from the home, police said.

Brookfield Zoo introduces baby aardvark

Staff report — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:37:00 CST

Brookfield Zoo today announced the birth of an aardvark at the zoo, the first born there in a decade.

CPS set to vote on schools' fate today

WGN Staff, Randi Belisomo — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:34:00 CST

17 schools may be closed or 'turned around'

CPS is scheduled to vote today on the fate of 17 of Chicago's worst performing schools.

Police: Girl sexually assaulted in West Englewood

Celeste M. Ball — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:29:00 CST

13-year-old reportedly forced into alley at gunpoint

Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood is on alert after police said a 13-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at gunpoint.

Prosecutors: Man charged in flower shop attack claimed to be deaf

Staff report — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:47:00 CST

A 24-year-old West Side man charged with stabbing a Wicker Park flower shop employee in the head and arm claimed to be deaf and communicated in writing before attacking her and robbing the store, prosecutors said.

2 Western Journalists Killed in Syria, Opposition Activists Say

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:15:00 CST

Two Western journalists were killed Wednesday in the Syrian city of Homs amid heavy shelling from government forces, opposition activists said.

Chicago cop to be sentenced for DUI crash that killed boy

WGN News — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:20:00 CST

Faces up to 15 years in prison

A Chicago police officer will be sentenced Wednesday for a DUI crash that killed a 13-year-old boy.

4 More Bodies Found on Doomed Italian Cruise Ship

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:40:00 CST

Two of the bodies are those of a woman and a little girl, officials say.

ROME, Italy -- Four more bodies were found aboard the shipwrecked Costa Concordia, Italian civil protection officials said Wednesday, more than a month after the cruise liner struck rocks off the coast of Italy.