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A 12-year-old boy and 16-year-old boy were in critical condition tonight after they were wounded in a drive-by shooting as they walked to a 7-Eleven store, police said.

The shootings also left a 14-year-old girl injured with a graze wound but her condition did not appear life-threatening, said Schaumburg police Sgt. John Nebl.

The shootings happened at about 8:30 p.m. on the 900 block of Bode Road as the youths were about to enter the parking lot of a 7-Eleven at 920 Bode Rd., Nebl said.

As they were walking, shots were fired at them from inside a gold-colored extended cab pickup truck driving westbound on Bode Road. The pickup truck continued on, Nebl said.

No one was in custody, Nebl said.  Police are questioning witnesses in the area.

-- Carlos Sadovi

Source: Chicago Breaking News | Published: 10 Mar 2010, 10:18 pm

Elgin City Council approved a watered-down version of a new animal control ordinance Wednesday in front of about 275 people who were in attendance to protest the specific restrictions regarding pit bulls.

Applause rang out through the Heritage Ballroom in The Centre in downtown Elgin when the ordinance was unanimously approved without the references that automatically labeled all pit bull breeds as dangerous. 

The ordinance allows an animal control officer to designate a dog as either dangerous or vicious in the case of an attack of either another dog or a human.

A dangerous dog is a dog that attacks and injures, but a vicious dog is one that attacks and causes severe injuries or death. 

The new restrictions include many new rules such as a dog declared dangerous or vicious would have to register with the city for a three-year, $100 license; the dogs would have to wear registration and rabies shot tags at all times, along with proof of havin...

A Mt. Prospect school bus driver who smelled of alcohol to a co-worker managed to drop off 50 children before she was arrested Tuesday for being nearly three times over the legal limit for alcohol, police said.

When he learned of the co-worker's suspicions, a transportation supervisor in Mt. Prospect School District 57 tracked down the driver and called police, but allowed her to continue on her route until authorities arrived, school officials said Wednesday.

Betty Burden, 54, of the 1400 block of Park Drive, was arrested after police received a call at about around 3:45 p.m. Tuesday from the supervisor, Vincente Ramirez.

School board President Joseph Leane said another driver had smelled alcohol on Burden's breath at about 2:30 p.m. but did not report it to Ram...

Zipper Interactive's recently revealed SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs is one of the games we were least expecting to be fully playable with the PlayStation Move controller. Can a hardcore online shooter stay competitive with a motion control scheme ?

Fortunately for the less curious SOCOM fan, the Move controller is not a requirement. The game can obviously be played with a DualShock controller. Based on my hands-on time with the Move in SOCOM 4, a game that requires both liberal use of motion controlled aiming and the numerous buttons, players will be more accurately served sticking to their familiar gamepads.

The control layout, as we played in the pre-alpha build of SOCOM 4, required aiming the ever presented targeting reticule with the glowing Move controller. Character movement—strafing and running—was perform...

Gov. Pat Quinn addresses Illinois state lawmakers in Springfield during his state budget address today. (Lane Christiansen/Chicago Tribune)

SPRINGFIELD -- Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn pitched a 33 percent income tax increase Wednesday, framing the debate as a choice between finding more money or hurting schoolchildren.

But the governor's challenge to lawmakers immediately ran into Republican criticism that Quinn is holding students hostage and into a Democratic dose of political reality.

"The people of America don't want tax increases. ...They're hurting," said House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, speaking on public television's "Illinois Lawmakers."

Madigan did not say whether he'll muster the Democratic votes required to approve a tax increase this spring, noting the Republican rallying cry against higher taxes before the No...

A series of unrelated shootings this evening left four men hospitalized in the city, officials said.

The first shooting occurred on the 7200 block of S. South Shore drive in the city's South Shore neighborhood, police said in a statement.

The shooting occurred at about 3:23 p.m. and left a 21-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his back and stomach, police said. The man was shot by an unknown person who confronted him and then shot him. The man was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, officials said.

About an hour later at 4:22 p.m., a 67-year-old man was shot in the left shoulder by someone in a group of several people who fled, police said. The shooting occurred on the 1100 block of North Central Park Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. The man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, officials said.

At about 4:47 p.m., in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, a 23-year-old man was shot in the hip and both legs and taken to Stroger Hospital, police sa...

A man wanted in connection with a series of sexual assaults on the Southwest Side turned himself over to detectives this evening, police said.

Chauvet Stiggers, who was the subject of an arrest warrant, walked into the Wentworth Area police station accompanied by his lawyer, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.

Stiggers, 23,  was named a suspect in the warrant in connection with sexual attacks that took place between March 4 and Sunday in the area between Maplewood Avenue and Pulaski Road, between 79th Street and 83rd Street, police said.

Police had said that Stiggers used the aliases of Rashaun Little, Andre Harris and DeAndre Harris, and was believed to be driving a green 1996 Chrysler Town & Country van with Il...

The Shoot is Sony's first light gun shooter for the newly named PlayStation Move controller, an arcade-style sci-fi shoot 'em up with a twist, in that you have to twist.

Set in an environment that looks like an alien cyborg invasion of a Hollywood film shoot—at least in the levels we played; later levels appear to have western and horror themes—robotic creatures pop out from behind walls or sneak up from behind columns. Then you shoot them. Initially, it's fairly standard light gun shooter stuff.

The Shoot, developed by Cohort Studios, takes advantage of the PlayStation Move controller in a few interesting ways. While the majority of the progressions is on rails, players can lean from side-to-side by shifting the Move left or right. That helps players avoid oncoming missiles and, somet...