Fermilab’s Tevatron Shutting Down

The Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will be shut down later this year after the Batavia-based lab failed to win additional funding from the Obama administration. Once the world’s largest atom smasher — technically, a proton-antiproton collider — the...

$5/gal gas? Yes Says Former Shell Exec

NOTE:  This story is a few weeks old.  12/28/2010 Gasoline rationing and $5 pump prices are predicted by 2012 for consumers if U.S. politicians don’t get their act together, a former Shell executive said.  … John Hofmeister, a former president at Shell...

O’Hare Bonds Downgraded

The cost of debt is going up because of years of bad management. A major credit rating firm delivered a stern warning Monday regarding the mounting risks that Chicago is taking by going deeper into debt in an attempt to build more runways at O’Hare International...

Convicted But Still on the Payroll

Chicago, the city that works, is also the city that keeps on paying city employees long after they’re convicted of corruption.Nine former city employees were paid a total of $383,205 after they pleaded guilty or were found guilty in corruption cases, records show....

Gas Tax at Work

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The twice-monthly Lundberg Survey has found the price of regular gasoline has risen about nine cents a gallon over three weeks to $3.08.  … Lundberg says the highest gas price in the country was recorded in Chicago at $3.35 a gallon. The...