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UPDATE: Chauvet Stiggers turned himself in at the Wentworth Area Headquarters tonight, police said. Details to come.

Police have named a suspect in sexual assaults on the Southwest Side in the last week.

Chauvet Stiggers, 23, is named in an arrest warrant in connection with sexual attacks that took place between March 4 and Sunday in the area between Maplewood Avenue and Pulaski Road, between 79th Street and 83rd Street, police said.

Stiggers, who uses the aliases of Rashaun Little, Andre Harris and DeAndre Harris, may be driving a green 1996 Chrysler Town & Country van with Illinois temporary plate 265L796, according to an alert issued this afternoon.

The attacks have been the subject of alerts from police in recent days, and area resi...

Proposed state legislation to bring the now-independent DuPage Water Commission under the direct control of DuPage County government was written by an unlikely source: one of the Lake Michigan water agency's own 13 commissioners.

State Sen. Dan Cronin, R-Elmhurst, the Republican candidate for DuPage County Board chairman in November, said Water Commissioner and County Board member Jim Zay wrote legislation proposing changing control of the commission. Cronin and Rep. Randy Ramey, R-Carol Stream, each have introduced bills to convert the commission into a county department overseen by a Water Operations Committee composed jointly of municipal appointees and County Board members.

Zay initially denied knowledge of any possible legislation to abolish the commission. But on Wednesday he acknowledged that Cronin and Ramey "had asked me to prepare some ideas" for the legislation. And in an e-mail obtained by the Tribune dated Feb. 11, Zay had written, "The county has been awar...

Among the titles for the PS3's Move motion controller being shown off at the Game Developers Conference today is Sports Champions, a very familiar sounding casual sports title.

Sports Champions will include half a dozen casual sports that can be played with one or two of the microphone-like Move controllers in hand.

On display at the event were Table Tennis and Gladiator, but the other games include Frisbee Golf, Archery,

Gladiator had me holding a Move controller in each hand. My right hand's controller let me move my weapon about, in this case a giant mallet, my left hand's controller moved the shield.

A short training session explained that I had to turn my body, and pull my right hand back to better block with my left-handed shield. It also demonstrated that...

Chicago police said there ended up being nothing suspicious found in a suitcase that caused disruptions on the CTA Red and Purple lines during the evening commute.

Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli said the Chicago police Bomb and Arson Section officers exploded a suitcase found on the street near Granville and Broadway at about 7:40 p.m. The suitcase did not have anything hazardous in it, said Mirabelli.

Because the suitcase was near the tracks, all train service had been suspended in the area, causing delays throughout the system.

As of 7:47 p.m., trains on the Red Line were still bypassing the Granville station, but other service had resumed. Some delays were still expected as equipment was getting back into position, according to the CTA Web site.

Officials from the Chicago police Bomb and Arson Section had received a call about the suspicious suitcase at 4:49 p.m. today, police said.

CTA spokeswoman Sheila Gregory...

Legislators shot down a proposal today that called for abolishing a regional education office drowning in debt and allegations of corruption and patronage.

State Rep. Elaine Nekritz, D-Northbrook, sponsored a bill to eliminate the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education led by embattled schools chief Charles Flowers.

The House bill provided that the county's three intermediate service centers would take over the regional office's responsibilities, which include processing teacher certifications and carrying out safety inspections for more than 140 Cook County school districts.

The measure didn't make it out of the Elementary and Secondary Education Committee on Wednesday.

Nekritz, who said she was disappointed by the vote, will continue moving forward on the effort.

"While Dr. Flowers was the impetus for it, the goal is to get the services delivered efficiently," she said. "It's not about punishing Dr. Flowers. There are other avenues for...

Republican Senate nominee Mark Kirk and his now ex-wife made more than $232,000 in 2008 -- the most since he became a congressman, according to ten years worth of tax returns his campaign made available today.

Read more in Clout Street on chicagotribune.com.

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I just played SOCOM 4 with the newly-named PlayStation Move controller. And now I know how the PlayStation 3's motion-sensitive controller is not just a me-too Wii controller.

For those who need the basics, the PlayStation Move is a remote-like motion-sensitive controller with a sphere at the end. The sub-controller is an off-hand controller being offered for some Move games. The Move controller connects to the PS3 with the help of a PlayStation Eye camera, which detects the Move's colored sphere, while tilt sensors in the move transmit their position data to the PS3.

But at first glance, the whole thing seems like just another version of the Wii Remote and Nunchuk.

Not quite. There are key differences:

-Fewer buttons: The Move controller is actually even more streamlined than the Wii R...

Having just blown the lid off the PlayStation Move (a.k.a PlayStation 3 Motion Controller) and its Sub-Controller, Sony has now unleashed a plethora of assets for some of the compatible games that were shown during this evening's press conference.
Sports Champions PlayStation Move (Hardware) SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs...