But event comes with political risks for Obama, EmanuelMayor Rahm Emanuel has touted the NATO summit as a way to showcase Chicago on an international stage, and much of the Chicago area agrees with that notion, a Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows.

Less than a year after labor leaders were forced to give up union pensions because they already were getting lucrative city pensions, their lawyer attempted to tap into union funds for retirement benefits again, according to documents and interviews obtained by the Tribune and WGN-TV.

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.

Finance reports show Emanuel raising $11.8 million, Chico $2.4 million, Braun $446,000Mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel will spend nearly as much for a single TV ad during Sunday's Bears-Packers game as opponent Carol Moseley Braun had in her campaign fund to begin the year.