Chicago Gas

Ronald Moore was in the back seat of a car on a June night in 2011, court records say, when the car started to overheat. His younger brother, Rondell Moore, pulled into a BP gas station parking lot in the South Side of Chicago to buy antifreeze, and a mechanic took a look under the hood.

A 19-year-old Indian man was shot dead on Thursday during a robbery attempt in the US state of Illinois.

Hugh Hefner, who died Wednesday at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles after spending most of his life there in a silk robe, grew up in the 1920s on a quiet Chicago street lit with gas lamps.

Powerful storms packing multiple tornadoes swept through parts of the Midwest on Wednesday night, damaging homes and a gas station in central Illinois and sending tens of thousands of soccer fans seeking shelter during the Copa America semifinal in Chicago.

Chlorine gas sickened several people and forced the evacuation of thousands of guests from a suburban Chicago hotel early Sunday, including many dressed in cartoonish animal costumes for an annual furries convention who were ushered across the street to a convention center hosting a dog show.

A Texas town was evacuated on Thursday after a gas pipeline operated by Chevron exploded, but there were no injuries.

The Dow Jones industrial average, an index of 30 US blue-chip stocks, is a barometer of the health of the stock market and US economy. On Tuesday, it closed at an all-time high of 14,253.77, beating the record it set on Oct. 9, 2007 by 89 points.

Ronald Moore was in the back seat of a car on a June night in 2011, court records say, when the car started to overheat. His younger brother, Rondell Moore, pulled into a BP gas station parking lot in the South Side of Chicago to buy antifreeze, and a mechanic took a look under the hood.

A 19-year-old Indian man was shot dead on Thursday during a robbery attempt in the US state of Illinois.

Hugh Hefner, who died Wednesday at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles after spending most of his life there in a silk robe, grew up in the 1920s on a quiet Chicago street lit with gas lamps.

Powerful storms packing multiple tornadoes swept through parts of the Midwest on Wednesday night, damaging homes and a gas station in central Illinois and sending tens of thousands of soccer fans seeking shelter during the Copa America semifinal in Chicago.

Chlorine gas sickened several people and forced the evacuation of thousands of guests from a suburban Chicago hotel early Sunday, including many dressed in cartoonish animal costumes for an annual furries convention who were ushered across the street to a convention center hosting a dog show.

A Texas town was evacuated on Thursday after a gas pipeline operated by Chevron exploded, but there were no injuries.

The Dow Jones industrial average, an index of 30 US blue-chip stocks, is a barometer of the health of the stock market and US economy. On Tuesday, it closed at an all-time high of 14,253.77, beating the record it set on Oct. 9, 2007 by 89 points.