Don Babwin

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Quinn, Rauner tout their values to voters

Don Babwin · June 29, 2014 9:11 pm

At the podium, sisters Noemia Silva (L) and Alma Huerta of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo Scalabrinians address marchers in front of Club Allure Chicago, a strip club, to protest its proximity to their convent, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Chicago Sun-Times, Richard A. Chapman)

Nuns march on Chicago-area strip club

Don Babwin · June 18, 2014 11:03 pm

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s tour highlights questions of taxes

Don Babwin · April 15, 2014 4:00 am

In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, Sue Knieriemen, of Fremont, Ohio, and her brother Charles Bork, of Sylvania, Ohio, check their tickets outside Goodyear Ballpark before an exhibition baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Cleveland Indians in Goodyear, Ariz. After such a long, cold season, Americans across the winter-weary Midwest and the East Coast are desperate to escape to warm-weather destinations in California, Arizona and Florida. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Winter-weary Americans plead: Get me out of here

Don Babwin · February 28, 2014 9:33 pm

Road salt is loaded into a snow plow truck equipped with a salt spreader at the public works facility in Glen Ellyn, Ill., on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. The Midwest's recent severe winter weather has caused communities to expend large amounts of their road salt supplies. (AP Photo/Andrew A. Nelles)

Long winter brings salt shortage, steeper prices

Don Babwin · February 4, 2014 10:55 pm

Chicago hotel workers end strike _ after 10 years

Don Babwin · May 30, 2013 10:35 pm

First lady Michelle Obama speaks about 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton who was shot and killed on the south side of Chicago earlier this year during a luncheon at the Chicago Hilton in Chicago, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The first lady is visiting Chicago for a discussion with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and civic leaders on ways to combat youth violence. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

First lady wades into debate over gun violence

Don Babwin, Nedra Pickler · April 10, 2013 4:00 am

Pallbearers carry the casket of film critic Roger Ebert after his funeral at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, April 8, 2013. The Pulitzer Prize-winning movie reviewer died Thursday, April 4 at age 70 after a long battle with cancer. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Roger Ebert remembered as acclaimed film critic

Don Babwin · April 8, 2013 4:00 am

Agency sues Kankakee over tax incentive program

Don Babwin · March 22, 2013 11:30 pm

Chicago’s bills for police misconduct cases climbs

Don Babwin · March 15, 2013 1:03 am

Bill Ford gets help shoveling the sidewalk by his 3-year-old son, Bray, during a winter storm that came through the area in Monona, Wis., Tuesday, March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal/Amber Arnold)

Snow storm barrels through Midwest to Mid-Atlantic

Don Babwin, Jason Keyser · March 5, 2013 5:00 am

Father Michael Pfleger , left, consoles Cleopatra Pendelton during a news conference with Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy seeking help from the public in solving the murder of Pendelton's daughter Hadiya Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Chicago. Hadiya, 15, who had performed in President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities, was killed in a Chicago park as she talked with friends by a gunman who apparently was not even aiming at her. The city's 42nd slaying is part of Chicago's bloodiest January in more than a decade, following on the heels of 2012, which ended with more than 500 homicides for the first time since 2008. It also comes at a time when Obama, spurred by the Connecticut elementary school massacre in December, is actively pushing for tougher gun laws. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Teen performer at inaugural events fatally shot

Don Babwin · January 30, 2013 5:00 am