Founder of The Arbors singing groupFred J. Farran found his voice with The Arbors, a group whose pitch-perfect four-part harmonies led to thousands of club dates, several hits, national TV appearances and scores of well-known commercial jingles over nearly four decades of performing.

The news is almost enough to make you jam pruning shears into your eyeball:

Many factors determine when express lanes are reversed, IDOT officials sayA Japanese television crew recently spent several days in Chicago working on a story about the reversible express lanes on the Kennedy Expressway for a show called "Amazing Infrastructure From Around the World!''

Smithsonian Channel program to delve into how killer's victims were identifiedThe Des Plaines Police Department will be featured in a Smithsonian Channel television series that highlights the science used to identify the victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

Activist and founding faculty member of Roosevelt UniversityDale Pontius, a political science professor who was on the founding faculty at Roosevelt University, never lacked for a strong opinion.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel certainly made news over his angry, finger-wagging scolding of NBC Chicago TV reporter Mary Ann Ahern the other day.

Hulu, Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant — what to choose?TV is better than ever these days, and yet it's never been so difficult to figure out how to watch it.

18-year-old Glenview murder case cracked after witness testimony, DNATemer Leary remembers the moment well: The former bouncer was watching television a few months ago when a familiar face caught his eye. He was startled to see his old coworker, Michael Gargiulo, charged with two murders and named as a suspect in a 1993 murder in Glenview.

Pawn money used to pay cable TV bill, authorities sayA Romeoville man who stole the wedding and engagement rings off of a dead woman in a hospital and then pawned the jewelry to pay for cable TV and other personal expenses was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday.

Area schools harness appeal of TV crime dramas, court cases in the news Stimulated by popular TV crime dramas and high-profile celebrity cases, the public's big appetite for crime stories is showing up in high school curricula, according to Chicago-area educators.

Nick Charles grew up in Chicago, drove cabs before television careerWhile studying for a career in broadcasting, Nick Charles drove a taxi through Chicago's streets.

Pastor affiliated with southern Illinois network accused of abusing teen in 2001An international Christian radio and television network based in West Frankfort in southern Illinois and the brother of the network's founder were named in a federal child-sex-abuse lawsuit filed in Chicago on Monday.

They're touched by the support of friends and strangers, they sayOn the evening of Dec. 18, 2009, Anna and Thomas Ware were sitting in their living room amid photographs of their teenage daughter and their son, Albert Ware, a decorated Army infantryman who loved playing soccer. The 10 o'clock news was on, and Anna Ware's attention was divided between the television and the falling rain outside the...

We don't know much about the new drama "Boss," starring Kelsey Grammer as the mayor of modern-day Chicago, but a casting call for extras offers a glimpse into what may air on TV this fall.

Aurora Fire Department investigators said Wednesday that they are unable to determine an exact cause of the city's deadliest fire, although the deputy chief said two possible causes are an electrical arc from a TV set or an unattended candle burning nearby.

Wheeling singer looks to follow another local's triumphOne year to the day after Lee DeWyze's "beLeevers" crowded into the Arlington Park racetrack to wish him luck on the "American Idol" TV show, crowds huddled there again Saturday in a cold rain to cheer a new northwest suburban star.

Chicago-area residents touched closest by terrorist attacks struggle with a range of emotionsLionel Lenz was watching "CSI: Miami" in his Rolling Meadows home Sunday night when news flashed on the television screen that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

5 face federal charges tied to cable TV installation contract Two white businessmen have been indicted on federal charges that they hid their ownership of a cable-installation company to snare more than $8 million in city subcontracts that were required to go to minority-owned businesses.

Several thousand hopeful competitors for the "X Factor" television talent show lined up before 6 a.m. outside the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates todaya, undaunted by rain and wind.

Rod Blagojevich has been warned by a federal judge about the perils of popping off to the media about his innocence, and on Monday prosecutors in the former governor's corruption trial served notice they want to use one of his TV interviews against him.

Chicago public television innovator turned WTTW into powerhouseWilliam J. McCarter, 81, a broadcasting innovator who led WTTW in Chicago for 27 years and built it to become the most watched public television station in the country, died of cancer Thursday, April 21, according to his family.

Until a few days ago, I assumed that kicking in doors was nothing more than an overused plot gimmick in movies and TV crime dramas.

Could reality TV s next spotlight shine on the glittery streets of Boystown? Local producers and LA-imported casting directors say yes.

From the Chicago Tribune last week : A federal judge Thursday signaled "game on" for next week's scheduled corruption retrial of Rod Blagojevich, forcing the former governor back to court after occupying himself for months with frequent proclamations of victimhood and a stint as a TV pitchman for pistachios.

Winning candidate spent $5.5 million on TV adsRahm Emanuel raised $14.5 million in his successful bid to become Chicago's next mayor, spending roughly $800,000 to fight an attempt to knock him off the ballot by challenging his residency.

Borrowing a page from reality TV, Facebook site offers inside look at upscale communityThey may not be reality television celebrities, but the housewives of Hinsdale showcased in a new Facebook page are real people — with an edge.

Indicted Kane County Coroner Charles West has been sued by his chief deputy, who alleges that West committed retaliatory acts against her after she alerted authorities that West had allowed office employees to take a TV from a dead man's house.

New lawsuit by teen targets members of the Special Operations Section, who have been convicted of illegal searches, stealing money and trumped-up chargesOn a summer evening six years ago, Jose Fematt and his younger sister did what most kids do as the day fades — they changed into their pajamas and planted themselves on the front-room couch to watch television.

Employee needed to pay cable TV bill, police sayA hospital employee who said he needed money to pay his cable television bill admitted he stole two rings off the finger of a deceased woman he was taking to the hospital morgue last summer, then pawned them, prosecutors said Wednesday.