Though the polar vortex seems a frost-bound memory, Chicagoans may now feel its bite in a new, unexpected way — higher electricity bills.
Beginning next month, power plants in northern Illinois and other states will be able to make more money from consumers in order to shore up electricity in frigid weather and prevent the scramble to keep the lights on that occurred during the extreme winter of 2013-14.
But critics — including the head of the federal agency that analyzes such moves — argue that the electric grid, while stressed, did not actually...
Regarding the NFL commissioner, the Patriots quarterback and the cellphone connection to DeflateGate, Roger Goodell had only one question for Tom Brady.
Can you hear me now?
Loudly and clearly, Goodell upheld Brady's four-game suspension Monday for violating the league's policy on the integrity of the game, releasing his decision in a 20-page document that included details about the quarterback destroying a cellphone full of key evidence. Having your cellphone destroyed in the midst of an investigation is the act of a guilty man, not an aw-shucks-I-have-nothing-to-hide...
On Tuesday afternoon in a driveway next to a historic home in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, several students from various colleges dug and sifted for buried relics of those who lived about 100 years ago.
The students are in their last week of a four-week summer excavation on the eastern side of the Charnley-Persky House at 1365 N. Astor St., designed in 1892, and one of the few surviving buildings by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Siobhan Yeh, who is earning a master's degree in liberal science at Lake Forest College, pointed out bottles...
The moment right before a car accident can feel like the blink of an eye that lasts a lifetime. It can be traumatizing, it can be fatal, it is always haunting.
Yet for some automotive journalists, it can seem like a rite of passage.
"I can't tell you how many people have said, 'I've done that; it happens,'" said Jalopnik editor Patrick George, after crashing a 2016 Camaro at the May 17 launch program at Belle Isle racetrack in Detroit.
Driving a new car with unaccustomed performance capabilities on an unfamiliar track in variable weather conditions,...
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