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- The loss of manufacturing jobs helped drive down home prices in 26 metro areas betwee...
- The Age of the Renaissance is alive, well and reigning at the annual Bristol Renaissa...
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- Considering the huge popularity of Thomas Rockwell's How to Eat Fried Worms -- a best...
- By some estimates, it will take a heroin user at least six attempts to kick the habit...
- Birth control entered a new era Thursday, as the Food and Drug Administration decided...
- BERLIN -- A second key suspect in a failed plot to bomb two German trains surrendered...
- PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- A sheriff's deputy patrolling a senior housing development outside...
- In an ideal world, Illinois voters would acknowledge that our over-reliance on proper...
- I don't think I've ever seen a serious candidate for governor lay out a detailed budg...
- Q. I'm 38 and newly pregnant. I hear there are a lot of options to see if I am having...
- New-home sales in the U.S. fell more than economists forecast in July and the number ...
- As Richards football coach Gary Korhonen begins his 37th season, the last 35 at the O...
- When: 7:30 tonight.
Where: 4436 Main, Downers Grove.
Outlook: This is the t...
- Former Gov. Jim Thompson shed the most recent of his powerful titles Wednesday, stepp...
- Republican gubernatorial candidate Judy Baar Topinka on Wednesday revived a push for ...
- Mayor Daley has said he's not about to turn city health inspectors into the foie gras...
- GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- An unknown militant group demanded the release of Muslim pri...
- The U.S. had an estimated 124.5 million housing units as of July 1, 2005 -- up 1.8 mi...
- TOKYO -- Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's tenure, which ends next month, has been m...
- Cooler temps soon to blow into the Windy City will bring with them a great excuse to ...
- Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski vowed Wednesday to continue to push a contract for a natu...
- Compared to other sports enthusiasts, golfers are a particularly maniacal bunch, risi...
- ALBUQUERQUE -- Ferrel Heady, who was president of the University of New Mexico during...
- CHARLESTON, Ill. -- Eastern Illinois coach Bob Spoo will miss at least the first four...
- Dallas Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens won't be in any hurry to get off the bicycle th...
- DETROIT -- Ozzie Guillen hopes his players were paying close attention Wednesday morn...
- More than 60 years after a young airman from Chicago went missing near Caen, France, ...
- The female airport security guard held the small, black, squeezable rubber object she...
- What has the most powerful jaws in the animal kingdom? The pit bull, you say? The gre...
- SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. -- A vacationing police officer was beaten with a baseball bat at...
- No matter where United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan casts his eye, all he see...
- The Democrats don't have an agenda. That's what critics of the Democratic Party say a...
- NEW YORK -- The new season of "Survivor" will be a race among races.
At the star...
- NEW YORK -- Dr. Nancy Snyderman, a former ABC News medical correspondent who spent th...
- BERKSHIRE UPS USG STAKE
Berkshire Hathaway reported Wednesday it bought 567,218 ...
- Segway electric scooters have failed to gain momentum since a much-heralded launch fi...
- BOSTON -- Vernon Ingram, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor whose la...
- Notre Dame committed a secondary violation when three of its athletes -- including Al...
- The three-team trade Tuesday that sent wide receiver Ashley Lelie to Atlanta, running...
- DETROIT -- White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen isn't looking for favors from umpires, but...
- BOMBAY, India -- When a restaurant called "Hitler's Cross" opened four days ago in a ...
- Mayor Daley has made repeated proposals for a Chicago casino over the last 14 years, ...
- It began as a pinch on the wrist in the middle of the night.
It ended, a suburba...
- PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- It's a cosmic clash, a space squabble, a mutiny in the Milk...
- "Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future," s...
- News Headline: "Killer whales settle disputes like humans."
Didn't you think wha...
- BULIMIA'S OVER, MCPHEE SAYS
Katharine McPhee, who struggled with bulimia for fiv...
- Since the venerable PBS kids' show "Sesame Street" began highlighting healthy eating ...
- I'm reading the first paragraph of this column -- er, not the one that you're reading...
- A simmering dispute between La Salle Street family members broke into open court Wedn...
- The latest spate of catastrophic horse breakdowns at Arlington Park continued Wednesd...
- Winning the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin is no small feat. Regarded a...
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- DETROIT -- Ozzie Guillen had that little gleam in his eye hours before the White Sox'...
- ATLANTA -- Most weekday afternoons, Patricia Israel waits in her front yard for the s...
- You hate it when people stroll casually five abreast down the street.
Spitting o...
- BOULDER, Colo. -- It is by far the most intriguing piece of evidence in JonBenet Rams...
- SHANGHAI, China -- A Chinese court has awarded a survivor of the Rape of Nanking $200...
- Ben S. Bernanke, the rookie aviator flying the central bank's monetary airplane throu...
- A 19-year-old Gurnee man partied at the home of one of Lake County's most prominent c...
- Conan O'Brien plans to wax his back hair before hosting Sunday's Emmys. "I like my bo...
- THE VIVACIOUS VIVICA A. FOX, who will be tripping the light fantastic on ABC's hit sh...
- Epson's Perfection V350 Photo scanner improves the quality of old photos as you scan ...
- CLINTON, Mich. -- Tom Wright's dark-blue GMC Sierra Extended Cab pickup is 12 years o...
- There is a good chance senior Evan Jager is going to be known as the best athlete Jac...
- SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- It irks Ryan Harris that people associate Muslims with 9/11 and t...
- BEARS ASKED FOR TROUBLE WITH BENSON AND THEY GOT IT
This is what happens when yo...
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- Tsk, tsk: So much for Mayor Daley's offer to "apologize to anyone" over the Jon Burge...
- Grant Park geese are seeing spots after the spraying of a unique chemical designed to...
- By next summer, O'Hare Airport will have a new ground radar system in place to improv...
- ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A motorist knew something was very wrong when her SUV bega...
- It is my understanding that one-third to one-half of the cargo in a passenger airline...
- Staff Reporter
A motorcyclist who made two frantic 911 calls on his cell phone a...
- A federal judge ordered an inquiry Wednesday into whether a juror in a recent medical...
- DELL UNPLUGS DJ DITTY
Dell Inc. has quietly pulled the plug on its DJ Ditty musi...
- Cendant Corp. said Wednesday it has closed on the $4.3 billion sale of its travel ser...
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- Mike Fry, Tom Achtein, Nick Kuczwara, Tim Jung ret...
- Site: South Bend, Ind.
Coach: Charlie Weis (9-3, second season).
2005 recor...
- Good news of any kind is welcome for the Cubs this season, so Wednesday's news that r...
- They won behind the crunk of Joe Crede, underappreciated by everyone but Scott Boras....
- LAS VEGAS -- Spontaneous lovebirds and celebrities take note: No more early morning q...
- Keyana Ray.
Remember that name. This 17-year-old is a messenger. That's just the...
- The big pink and gray translucent crystal sat in the ground for about 1.8 billion yea...
- VIENNA, Austria -- A man mistook a government building in southern Austria for a bank...
- While Richard Busse, the happily married father and grandfather who committed suicide...
- CONCERT REVIEW
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
AT house of blues
Kids, they grow up ...
- Dear Ellie: When we started dating four months ago, I was with someone, and so was he...
- FISH WHO BEAT CANCER DIES
Bubba, a Queensland grouper that became the first fish...
- www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky
City folk seldom can enjoy the night sky. The lights of...
- Shares of Borders Group Inc. fell Wednesday after reporting its first sales drop in n...
- Sneed hears rumbles interim Cook County Board President Bobbie Steele, who appointed ...
- 'So you're saying [the JonBenet case] actually helped the industry?"
"Exactly. I...
- JACKSONVILLE, N.C. -- Two Camp Lejeune Marines have been charged in the shooting deat...
- LONDON -- Eleven suspects charged in an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners ...
- MILWAUKEE -- An anonymous woman donated a motorized scooter Tuesday to an 85-year-old...
- SUKHA BALKA, Ukraine -- A Russian passenger jet crashed during a thunderstorm just mi...
- It seems like some of the aldermen are wavering on their original vote for the big-bo...
- NEW YORK -- Keane has canceled its fall North American tour while singer Tom Chaplin ...
- NEW YORK -- Kathy Griffin, celeb-deflating star of Bravo's "My Life on the D-List," c...
- VITA FOODS NAMES CEO
Chicago-based Vita Foods Products Inc. promoted Chief Finan...
- Boeing Co.'s work on the newest versions of Global Positioning System satellites used...
- MICHIGAN CITY
In-Water Boat Show
When: Thursday-Sunday.
Where: Washing...
- The Cubs' revolving injury door caught shortstop Cesar Izturis as its latest entrant ...
- Only one issue has yet to be resolved amid the Cedric Benson sideline disappearing ac...
- Parlor
1745 W. North
A four-course dinner spotlighting J. Lohr Vineyards & ...
- NEW YORK -- Marilyn Monroe came Wednesdays for lunch and ordered a Beefeater martini,...
- PRETORIA, South Africa -- In this country, Sen. Barack Obama is having trouble gettin...
- The Chicago Fire Department would add up to six ambulances for non-emergency calls an...
- STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Sweden's state broadcaster SVT showed a little too much when it ...
- WASHINGTON -- As the Internal Revenue Service prepares to implement a program that se...
- OLYMPIA, Washington -- A fierce group of raccoons has killed 10 cats, attacked a smal...
- As a longtime Chicago resident, I am quite amazed to observe the latest political non...
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- FALL TV PREVIEW
'30 ROCK'
Premieres Oct. 11 on WMAQ-Channel 5
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- The nonprofit National Fair Housing Alliance opted to go public Tuesday with a five-m...
- XM Satellite Radio Holdings tuned into a winning session Tuesday. The stock added $2....
- MIDWEEK MUSINGS
IT'S TOO EARLY FOR SOX FANS TO PANIC
Pessimism should start...
- Outfielder Shawn Green was traded from the Arizona Diamondbacks to the New York Mets ...
- The Atlanta Falcons traded running back T.J. Duckett to the Washington Redskins on Tu...
- NEW YORK -- Pornographic movies available in the rooms of some of America's best know...
- They weren't asked, but they told.
Three Northwestern University undergrads trie...
- A west suburban man charged in a drunken-driving crash that killed a pregnant woman, ...
- NAQOURA, Lebanon -- When Israeli airstrikes and artillery pounded the rocky hills aro...
- RIDGEVILLE, S.C. -- Willy the tortoise made a break for freedom - - well, break may b...
- For the third time in two years, City Hall is joining forces with the CTA, Park Distr...
- Chicago's new garbage contract does nothing to improve Chicago's dismal waste recycli...
- Sci Fi Channel is closing the door -- make that the iris -- for "Stargate SG-1."
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- "Total Request Live," 2:30 p.m., MTV: Actor Mark Wahlberg.
"Larry King Live," 7 ...
- Let us take up the curious case of Sam Zell and the Missing Mural. The mural at issue...
- If there was a club meeting, banquet or dance going on, more than likely Arlyne Filip...
- ST. LOUIS -- How does El Hombre match up against the Sultan of Swat?
Washington ...
- Nick Markakis had just hit his third home run, and the crowd at Camden Yards stood in...
- Even though all 22 starters from last season returned, Bears general manager Jerry An...
- There's a new L stop in Chicago -- but it's not on any CTA map.
A replica of a l...
- Unlike his brother, Mayor Daley did not attend the weekend fund- raiser at a Bridgepo...
- Tuesday, columnist Mary Mitchell wrote about comparisons of Elvira Arellano to Rosa P...
- JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that Israel has no plans to lift...
- Americans who carry just a few extra pounds at age 50 raise their risk of dying 20 to...
- FIREFIGHTER INJURED IN FALL
A Chicago firefighter fell 50 feet at a West Side wa...
- Is it me, or does anyone else find it a little inconsistent that our government has f...
- It took "Star Wars" creator George Lucas six feature films to tell the big-screen sto...
- 7:05 a.m.--Mike North, WSCR-AM (670): Former football star and sportscaster Pat Summe...
- Jacques L. Antoine, who is accused of embezzling nearly $14 million from Harris Bank,...
- John C. Tabak, a retired Chicago water department superintendent, has died.
Mr. ...
- Site: Evanston.
Coach: Pat Fitzgerald (first season).
2005 record: 7-5, 5-3...
- Ryan O'Malley's dream of pitching for the Cubs came true a week ago in a whirlwind ca...
- The Bears went from spin control to spinning wheels Tuesday as they circled the wagon...
- COVINGTON, Ind. -- A van struck bicyclists riding to raise money for families of slai...
- A high-profile economist is challenging the conclusion in the best-selling book Freak...
- Angry because a 7-month-old Chihuahua urinated on the rug, a northwest suburban man g...
- TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran said Tuesday it was ready for "serious negotiations" on its nucl...
- WASHINGTON -- The Marine Corps will soon begin ordering thousands of its troops back ...
- WASHINGTON -- Patients taking a widely prescribed prostate drug should alert their ey...
- News Item: "Verizon Communications is imposing a new surcharge on high-speed Internet...
- "We believe the City Council does not have a right to tell people what to have for di...
- Placido Domingo, opera's reigning supertenor, will headline the Ravinia Festival's ga...
- In descriptions of this fall's most stylish shoes for women, there are lots of "P" wo...
- VISTA DISCOUNTS CONSIDERED
Microsoft Corp. is considering discounts or other pro...
- MOSSES, Ala. -- John Hulett, the civil rights pioneer who helped found a group that b...
- Kevin Mims was posing for an individual photograph at Ryan Field while reporters crow...
- Aaron Rowand didn't get the good news he was hoping for Tuesday, a day after the Phil...
- There are three issues going on here with the Bears and the "Cedric Benson incident" ...
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- Philip Wenz walked around Santa's Village on Tuesday, taking stock of the 22 rides --...
- Chicago Police sought the public's help Tuesday in identifying a man suspected of com...
- Nearly 25 years after a news magazine declared that an epidemic of genital herpes thr...
- BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq has launched its own probe into the alleged rape and murder of ...
- THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has banned Serbian ultra-n...
- It was an ugly story. Here's what police say happened: Four teenage Chicago men began...
- How good is government at wasting our tax dollars? Consider the Department of Homelan...
- LOS ANGELES -- Wining and dining at 35,000 feet gave way Monday to a cramped jail cel...
- I remember reading once that people who overdose on carrots sometimes find that their...
- Two Chicago restaurants are now offering diners who crave foie gras a "faux" fix.
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- STOUGHTON, Wis. -- David Olson peers at a 16-acre plot of tobacco on his southern Wis...
- WASHINGTON -- Obesity and certain chronic conditions were major factors driving virtu...
- Generals, goes the cliche, are always fighting the last war. It is probably truer tod...
- Kc's Boogie Blast With Kc & the Sunshine Band, Gloria Gaynor, Tavares and Sister Sled...
- 5 a.m.--"The First Light," WVON-AM (1450): Wake up to host Sharon McGhee.
7:20 a...
- Alberto-Culver, maker of VO5 shampoo and St. Ives lotion, will be the spinoff instead...
- - Melissa York has joined the Chicago Creative Partnership as an account director wor...
- For the first time in 14 years, a U.S. team in a major international competition won'...
- Tank Johnson beat the original prognosis for his torn left quad muscle by a long ways...
- BOSTON -- The New York Yankees hugged and shook hands in the dugout as though they ha...
- 35% are concerned that, if Democrats gain control of Congress, they will weaken terro...
- Hundreds of people packed Mayor Daley's family church over the weekend to raise tens ...
- Making good on warnings that BB-guns are illegal in Chicago, police have busted a Nor...
- A Zion man repeatedly denied stabbing to death his 8-year-old daughter and her 9-year...
- CEDARBURG, Wis. -- Eighty-five-year-old Benjamin Steinbach has been getting around on...
- If you falsely yell "Fire!" in a crowded movie theater, causing people to storm out a...
- As the Census Bureau reported a sharp increase in the U.S. immigrant population last ...
- 'AIGUARDENT'
By Compania Marta
Carrasco at the Goodman
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In t...
- DIDDY TO BE DADDY AGAIN
Sean "Diddy" Combs and girlfriend model Kim Porter have ...
- DECORATORS REACH MCPIER DEAL
Members of the United Steelworkers Local 17 Decorat...
- Trilby Lundberg, the nation's guru of gasoline prices, has no idea how many miles her...
- Lake Forest's Hailey Koschmann fired a 2-under-par 70 to win the 13-team Lake County ...
- It's not enough just to show up. At a bare minimum, you need to stick around, too. Th...