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Group portrait of players from the Kansas City Monarchs and the Hilldale Negro League baseball teams in front of grandstands filled with spectators before the opening game of the inaugural "Colored World Series" in 1924. (Photo by J.E. Miller via Library of Congress)

LOVERRO: Negro League World Series had Kansas City in baseball spotlight 90 years ago

By Thom Loverro - The Washington Times

A Chicago man has become a social media sensation after he teased President Obama at the voting booth Monday to keep his hands of his girlfriend. (CNN)

Chicago voter to Obama: ‘Don’t touch my girlfriend’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama votes early in Chicago as Democratic candidates keep distance

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

**FILE** D.C. United forward Eddie Johnson (7) celebrates after his goal during the second half of an MLS soccer match against the New York Red Bulls on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014, in Washington. United won 2-0. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

D.C. United clinches first place in conference with win over Fire

Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2014 file photo, Illinois gubernatorial candidates Republican Bruce Rauner, left, and incumbent Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn participate in a debate in Chicago. There is a $1 billion disagreement between the two on whether spending on public education in Illinois has increased or decreased under Quinn. Rauner alleges that Quinn decreased school aid nearly $600 million since taking office in 2009. Quinn says he's increased it by more than $400 million. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Top Dem, GOP leaders descend on Chicago ahead of early voting

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Dennis McCormack of Rockaway, N.J. checks the departure board only to find out that his flight to Newark, N.J. has been canceled at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. All flights in and out of Chicago's two airports were halted Friday after a fire at a suburban air traffic control facility sent delays and cancellations rippling through the U.S. air travel network. Authorities said the blaze was intentionally set by a contract employee of the Federal Aviation Administration and had no ties to terrorism. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

OIG to audit FAA’s security protocols at Chicago air traffic control facilities

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

$FILE - This March 25, 2014 file photo shows perforating tools, used to create fractures in the rock, lowered into one of six wells during a roughly two-week hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Corp. well pad near Mead, Colo. The energy boom is scrambling national politics. Democrats are split between environmentalists and business and labor groups. Some deeply-conservative areas are allying with conservationists against fracking, the technique largely responsible for the surge. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)$

Illinois legislative committee to take up fracking

Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2014, file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn speaks during an interview in Chicago. Quinn’s carefully tended image as a reformer, back to his activist days advocating for consumers and campaigning to shrink the size of government, has been put to the test in his no-holds-barred bid for re-election this year. Quinn is running against Republican Bruce Rauner in the November general election. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Illinois governor works to defend ‘reformer’ image

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

Rep. Luis Gutierrez

Immigration activists court Luis Gutierrez for presidential bid

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Michelle Bradford, of Chicago, pleaded on local news Thursday for President Obama to help find her Toyota Corolla after the president's security detail reportedly moved it from the front of her home without her knowledge. (ABC 7/Washington Free Beacon)

Obama security relocates Chicago woman’s car: ‘Can you help me find my car, Mr. President?’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FAA chief to visit sabotaged Chicago-area facility

Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Burning taxpayer cash aboard Air Force One

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Traders signal in the CME Group's S&P 500 futures pit in Chicago Wednesday shortly after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a half-point.

Feds: Trader made $1.5M by manipulating prices

Associated Press

Miss. tourism officials seek bigger promo budget

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Proponents and opponents of Illinois' concealed carry gun law are weighing in on how it will affect the relative safety of Chicago, the homicide capital of the nation. (Associated Press)

Chicago concealed carry gun permit law ‘disarms’ poor, blacks

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 18, 2014 file photo, Jim Oberweis speaks to supporters in Glen Ellyn, Ill., after winning the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois. Oberweis will face Sen. Dick Durbin in the November general election. Political prognosticators and even some top Republicans say Durbin’s rival is a long shot to unseat the Senate’s second-ranking Democrat. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, Mark Black, File) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT

Durbin, Oberweis debate background checks for guns

Associated Press

A traveler looks at a flight departure board Monday, Sept. 29, 2014, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it is reviewing security practices and how it deals with unexpected incidents throughout its air traffic control facilities following last week's fire at a Chicago-area air traffic facility. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

Answers about lingering delays at Chicago airports

By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ - Associated Press

Kanna Ortiz 4, waits in a line after her flight back home to New Jersey was delayed at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. All flights in and out of Chicago's two airports were halted Friday after a fire at a suburban air traffic control facility sent delays and cancellations rippling through the U.S. air travel network. Authorities said the blaze was intentionally set by a contract employee of the Federal Aviation Administration and had no ties to terrorism. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

After sabotage, air travel system slowly recovers

By JASON KEYSER - Associated Press

Kansas City Royals players and coaching staff celebrate after the Royals defeated the Chicago White Sox 3-1 in a baseball game in Chicago on Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Royals clinch first playoff berth since 1985

By Andrew Seligman - Associated Press

Dennis McCormack of Rockaway, N.J. checks the departure board only to find out that his flight to Newark, N.J. has been canceled at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. All flights in and out of Chicago's two airports were halted Friday after a fire at a suburban air traffic control facility sent delays and cancellations rippling through the U.S. air travel network. Authorities said the blaze was intentionally set by a contract employee of the Federal Aviation Administration and had no ties to terrorism. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Police: Employee set fire at Chicago air traffic site

By Jason Keyser - Associated Press