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Crews responded this morning to a traffic incident on the inbound side of the Eisenhower Expressway near Laramie Avenue, state police said.

The incident itself was minor, just a "two-vehicle spin-out," a dispatcher said. Some lanes of traffic were blocked as crews tried to clear the roadway.

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A 91-year-old woman was killed in an auto crash Tuesday afternoon near O'Hare International Airport, police said.

The incident happened at about 3 p.m. near Higgins and River Roads, police said. The woman was a passenger in a Buick LeSabre with her 87-year-old husband.

The Buick was headed west on Higgins and was making a left turn on to River when it was hit by an eastbound Chrysler sedan, according to police.

The woman suffered multiple injuries and was taken to Lutheran General Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.

Her husband was cited for failure to yield on a left turn, not having insurance and driving with a suspended or revoked license.

The police Major Accident Investigation Unit is investigating the crash.

-- Staff report

Source: Chicago Breaking News | Published: 10 Mar 2010, 5:53 am

Decatur police said the two young boys abducted Tuesday afternoon were found early this morning in St. Louis.

The boys -- Terry Antonio Smith, 4, and J-Amarcus Upchurch, 1-month -- were found unharmed at about 1 a.m. and police have detained and are questioning several people in connection with the incident, said Decatur Police Det. Brad Allen.

They have been put in the custody of the state Department of Children and Family Services.

Allen declined to go into detail on how police traced the boys to a house in St. Louis or the identities of the people in custody.

Authorities had issued an Amber Alert after the boys were taken by two men in the 1900 block of East Cantrell Street at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.

They were last seen in a silver passenger...

Civilization was never the most realistic game, and those who enjoyed battling against a nuclear-armed Gandhi have not minded. The next one, Civilization V, though may be the most natural one thanks to some crafty tweaks.

Kotaku was shown an early version of development studio Firaxis' Civ V running on a PC on the first day of Game Developers Conference here in San Francisco. What was shown was a Civ that behaves just a little more like it is in the real world in regards to everything from terrain to the rules of war and international relations. All have been modified to feel more true to life and more rife than ever with strategic potential.

The game is still a turn-based single or multiplayer quest requiring ample brainpower and planning. Like other Civilization games, the player...

The game features 8 fighters: Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Guile, Blanka, Dhalsim, Abel, and M. Bison. The fighters can be used for head-to-head multiplayer over Bluetooth or for solo play modes including Dojo mode, which challenges the player to complete increasingly difficult trials while teaching the basics of the port.

I was as skeptic as anyone else, but I'm happy to report that this is faithful port of the full-sized game, minus the characters and modes. Yes, complex combos and moves can be pulled off after a bit of practice. After about 15 minutes, I was able to execute Ryu's signature combo from Street Fighter IV: the shoryuken focus attack dash cancel into his ultra combo.

The game utilizes some shortcuts to assist with special moves. A dedicated on-screen button for specials h...

All lanes of the outbound Eisenhower Expressway were blocked tonight after a rollover crash just east of Pulaski Road, state police said.

The incident occurred at about 11:15 p.m., a dispatcher said. There were injuries, but they were not considered life-threatening, he added.

No other information was immediately available.

--Staff report

SPRINGFIELD -- Gov. Pat Quinn on Tuesday unveiled a caustic budget plan that would borrow billions of dollars to stay afloat and push even more debt down the road, hoping to persuade leery lawmakers to instead raise taxes in an election year.

Quinn aides warned the plan would cost some 13,000 teachers and staff their jobs, cut off poor seniors from help in paying costly prescriptions and shut down some health care programs for the indigent. But even after about $2 billion in cuts, the state would still be $11 billion in the hole.

The administration's warnings served as the precursor for the Democratic governor's Wednesday budget address before a joint session of lawmakers who want to wrap up their business in two months so they can focus on their re-election.

Click HERE for Quinn's 2011 budget overview.

Quinn is expected to restate the unsuccessful call he made last year for higher taxes.

But the political dynamics for a tax increase have grown onl...

While everyone pretty much knew he was coming, it's still nice to see Capcom take the wraps off Super Street Fighter IV's final new character Hakan with a couple of trailers.

There's a gameplay trailer, above, and a character trailer below. Amazing how, even in these lo-fi web clips, he's already so oily.

Super Street Fighter IV will be out at the end of April, and will be released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

[IGN]