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Largest T. rex skeleton has new display at Chicago museum

CHICAGO (AP) – The largest Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton ever found is ready to go back on display at Chicago’s Field Museum in a new exhibition space.

Suburban man convicted of child porn gets 29-year sentence

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) – A suburban Chicago man who was convicted of manufacturing child pornography has been sentenced to 29 years in state prison.

Attorney: Deadly hotel freezer could lock someone inside

CHICAGO (AP) – The attorney for a woman suing a suburban Chicago hotel over the death of her 19-year-old daughter in a walk-in freezer says someone could have locked the young woman inside.

New legislative inspector was prosecutor, appellate judge

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois Legislative Ethics Commission has chosen a permanent inspector general to investigate complaints against lawmakers.

Case dismissed against inmate in 1995 double murder case

CHICAGO (AP) – A Chicago man who spent 20 years in prison for a 1995 double murder of two eighth-grade girls in a hail of gunfire is free after prosecutors announced they were dropping their case against

Suspect in beauty salon slayings charged in inmate stabbing

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A 53-year-old suspect in the 2005 stabbing deaths of three people at a southwestern Illinois beauty salon now faces charges he stabbed a fellow inmate with a shiv.

Judge postpones verdict in Chicago police cover-up trial

CHICAGO (AP) – The judge presiding over the trial of three Chicago police officers accused of trying to cover up the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald has postponed issuing her verdict.

SW Illinois man rescued from cistern filled with icy waters

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) – Southwestern Illinois fire officials have rescued a man who fell into a cistern and was stuck neck-deep in its icy waters for nearly a half-hour.

Chicago suburb plans to buy land from McDonald’s for park

OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) – Park officials in a western suburb of Chicago have agreed to pay $15.8 million for vacant property owned by fast-food giant McDonald’s Corp.

NW Indiana man charged in Illinois woman’s hit-and-run death

CHICAGO (AP) – A northwestern Indiana man has been charged in the hit-and-run death of a suburban Chicago woman.

'Easy' night for Flyers ends in 3-2 loss for Red Wings

Back problem forces Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard to sit out

Tigers waste little time in pursuing their objectives

They make three quiet free-agent signings

Stuhec sweeps downhill and super-G races in Val Gardena

Slovenian skier Ilka Stuhec overcame an error in the middle of her run to win a World Cup super-G for her second win in two days on the Saslong course