Sole witness in 1988 murder says he identified wrong man as killer

Nearly 23 years after he fingered a Humboldt Park man as a killer, Orlando Lopez is now saying he identified the wrong suspect.

• Moms to try to break breast-feeding record

  Breast-feeding moms across Illinois plan to join an international attempt to break a world record. The “Big Latch-On” is part of the World Health Organization’s World Breastfeeding Week and is being sponsored, in part, by La Leche League USA. Mothers around the world plan to …Read More

• Mom of slain 13-year-old: He ‘died doing what he loved to do’

  Thirteen-year-old Darius “Bay Bay” Brown “died doing what he loved to do,” gunned down in a drive-by shooting Wednesday evening while playing basketball with his friends at Metcalfe Park in Bronzeville on Chicago’s South Side.

• Riverdale trustee accuses colleague of ‘sexually explicit’ remarks

  A suburban Riverdale trustee says it’s time to muzzle a fellow board member who allegedly hurled anti-lesbian epithets and other crude remarks during recent work conversations between the two.