The nation's top party school - the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, according to a recent controversial college ranking - appeared tamer than advertised on the last day of summer school.

Verizon, the nation's largest wireless provider, will stop offering phones at discounted prices when customers sign two-year service contracts.

Five people have been wounded since Tuesday afternoon in separate shootings citywide, police said.

Officer Thor Soderberg's widow dropped her head into her hands and sighed loudly Tuesday night when a Cook County judge rejected an insanity defense and convicted a man of the Chicago police officer's 2010 murder.

On the grounds of St. Sabina church on Chicago's South Side, there is an enormous wooden board, the sort that might normally display parish notices or invitations to block parties.

New Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool on Tuesday repeated the district's plea for help from the state and said he is preparing a budget that will "buy time" until a deal can be reached.