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Authorities were seen searching a Joliet canal Tuesday afternoon, the same canal where the sibling of missing Bolingbrook mother Stacy Peterson claimed her sister’s body had been found years ago, sources close to the investigation told NBC Chicago.

Authorities were seen searching a Joliet canal Tuesday afternoon, the same canal where the sibling of missing Bolingbrook mother Stacy Peterson claimed her sister’s body had been found years ago, sources close to the investigation told NBC Chicago.

Shareholders of Tribune Publishing, one of the country’s largest newspaper chains, appeared to approve a $630 million takeover bid by hedge fund Alden Global Capital on Friday. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

Shareholders of Tribune Publishing, one of the country’s largest newspaper chains, approved a takeover bid by hedge fund Alden Global Capital on Friday

Hedge fund Alden, Tribune’s largest shareholder, has offered to buy the rest of the newspaper publisher at a price that values it at $520.6 million.

A managing editor and the publisher and editor-in-chief are leaving the Chicago Tribune, joining a growing number of journalists who have departed since a hedge fund with a reputation for dramatically cutting costs and eliminating jobs became Tribune Publishing’s largest shareholder.

Two top executives at newspaper publisher Tribune are stepping down as the company deals with its largest shareholder, a hedge fund known for cutting newsroom jobs, and grapples with a decline in revenue as the print-ad business shrinks.

Illinois officials granted parole on Thursday to an 80-year-old inmate sentenced to life in prison for the 1960 killings of three suburban Chicago women, whose brutalized bodies were found in a cave at Starved Rock State Park.

A judge delayed a ruling Tuesday on whether or not a wrongful petition conviction can move forward after attorneys for Marni Yang claimed new evidence cleared the convicted murderer in the highly-publicized case. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

A River North bar at the center of controversy is back open for business.

This is not a joke: Cards Against Humanity has plans to open a Chicago Board Game Cafe early next year in Logan Square.

A lawyer for a former Lithuanian judge and parliament member jailed in Chicago said Monday that a new court ruling could be a fatal blow to his client’s long fight against extradition to Lithuania, saying she could be sent back any day now to the Baltic Sea nation where she says she exposed a network of influential pedophiles.

A federal judge in Chicago had joined three others nationwide in temporarily blocking President Donald Trump’s policy to deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps and other government benefits.

R. Kelly’s lawyers want the judge in the singer’s New York federal case to reconsider and grant him bond, saying the hardships of being jailed include being able to see just one of two previous live-in girlfriends at a time.