http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/illinois/western/ Western, IL News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/illinois/western/content/679aa23a5696681f9179ceddc3e0d251.html Just as the days of mailing out a resume and hoping for the best may be long gone Daniel Gallagher says it's equally futile to merely post a resume on an Internet job search site http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/illinois/western/content/51f4077a9ed5233e27e92f04e82f61bc.html The head of a Chicago taxi driver advocacy group says about 3500 of the city's 15000 drivers stayed home from work Sunday in a strike for increased fares http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/illinois/western/content/1134e63624644887960440883106de7e.html A 93yearold woman was fatally struck by a minivan in a hitandrun on the Northwest Side Sunday night in the Albany Park neighborhood http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/illinois/western/content/c0a7bacb20fbccc0b5009221026ef467.html Just weeks after posting record profits steel makers are facing a harsh new reality: dwindling orders production cuts layoffs And tougher times lie ahead analysts say The steel industry which employs about 17000 workers in northwest Indiana had been riding high earlier this year as surging demand from China and other countries coupled with soaring prices for materials used in steel making produced the most lucrative market for the metal in more than 60 years http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/illinois/western/content/f27a1edac3641175f1dbedf4aa88c6f5.html It's late fall at the 95th Street bridgehouse over the Calumet River All of the sailboats are in the sky is blue the road and water are still free of ice and the pace is slow This is the time Gerald H Walkup likes best I like it when it's like this said Walkup a bridgetender for 26 years He looked from the top of the threestory bridgehouse out onto the sparkling river http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/illinois/western/content/b84683674063ef8934e7f9e2dcc48c2c.html LONDON As World AIDS Day is marked today some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/illinois/western/content/272c0d40f39031d1516dd8e34df3506b.html ST LOUIS Leslie Owen Collier was surrounded by cattle at a livestock auction when his cell phone rang It was the White House http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/illinois/western/content/236ccb53a808723ff4f5538ec8c6f98f.html LONDON One of this country's mostcherished US imports Woolworths the British descendant of the old American fiveanddime store is in danger of disappearing after nearly a century of business