* Funeral services planned for slain Chicago cop

* Weis: ‘Entire city should be enraged’ over cop shooting

* March honors slain cop, protests violence

* City’s New Handgun Law Goes Into Effect

The new gun measure allows Chicago residents to register no more than one handgun per month and generally forbids people to have handguns anywhere other than their homes. This would mean owners could not bring a gun into a garage, yard or porch.

* Locked and Loaded

* New gun rules go into effect Monday

* ICC: ComEd customers paying more than last year

The electricity price increase is unrelated to ComEd’s recent filing with the ICC to increase delivery service rates. The review of that case will not be completed until the spring of 2011.

* Loop power-line plan would hike ComEd bills by 20 cents

Designed to ensure reliability, strengthen the electric system and reduce the impact of equipment failures or loss of generation to the Loop, the plan would add another 20 cents to the average monthly residential bill, spokesman Bennie Currie said.

* Ameren stresses energy efficiency

* Daley gets heat on pick for CPS education post

If Mary Ellen Caron is tapped as chief education officer, she would be the first white and non-CPS educator to assume that post since Daley won control of the city’s public schools in 1995.

* Chicago Housing Authority Closes Waiting List

* City aide, developer helped draw businesses to Chicago

* Ex-Pagano aide is Metra’s other million-dollar man

Tidwell and several current Metra managers benefitted from Pagano’s authorizing vacation and sick-day buyouts, according to records obtained by the Sun-Times and the BGA. Pagano authorized a total of $224,157 in payouts to Metra employees in 2009, $428,182 in 2008, and $25,422 in 2007.

About half of the $677,761 in buyout money during that three-year period went to Pagano himself and to Tidwell, with Pagano getting $232,761 and Tidwell $114,945.

Thirty-four other Metra employees got vacation and/or sick-day buyouts last year, the biggest of those totaling $22,220.

* Pyke: Breaking down perks at Metra

* Storms cost city $2.8 million

Since the storms that began June 18, the city has had to deal with 12,329 “tree emergency” situations, said Jose Santiago, executive director of the Office of Emergency Management and Communication. Many power poles also were down, and more than 70,000 people were left without electricity at one time or another.

* Hilkevitch: Cross-check

* Ohio’s guv wants to wall off Asian carp

* Second Fish Kill Baffles Residents

* Could Chicago River Be In For Some Big Changes Soon?

* Adapting to less: School districts trying to make do with fewer state funds

* Illinois adopts national standards developed to help compare students state to state

The project was announced in April 2009, with the standards released June 2. To date, 23 states, including Illinois, have adopted the math and language arts standards developed by Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association, with expectations that 41 states will have adopted those standards by the end of the year.

* Rockford says previous firefighter cuts not enough to balance budget

* EPA emission proposals raise concern