Chicago area families, anxious to share their family's Thanksgiving feasts, host Great Lakes based sailors. Have you an extra seat @ your table, Windy Citizens?

The matriarch of the Minelli Meat and Deli family, fondly known as "Mama Minelli," died Tuesday at age 99. By all accounts, she lived a life as robust as her marinara.

Heart-warming stuff. Local charity by a hairdresser: "They had not had Christmas, ever. Christmas was giving them these used shoes in March," said Purdy

Oddsmakers are betting against suburban Chicago developer Larry Freed getting his Block 37 retail mall open by Friday's foreclosure court hearing.

Seeking to contain the H1N1 virus, the Cook County Health and Hospitals System is banning visitors under the age of 18.