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- The president's approval ratings are so low I thought I'd find something to complimen...
- Talk is increasing among House Democrats that if they fail to regain control after 12...
- Although Sue Margolis' Gucci Gucci Coo (Delta Trade Paperbacks, 384 pages, $12) is a ...
- ST. LOUIS, MO. -- America's older downtowns have been revitalized by new baseball sta...
- With its principal sponsor gone and a talent lineup that screams "belt tightening," t...
- Talk about a quick study. In September 1996, conductor Leslie B. Dunner, currently mu...
- Earlier this year, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences awarded Robert Al...
- Cathy and David had just relocated from a minuscule apartment in Japan to a gigantic ...
- We may not be home to many celebrities (please Vince and Jen, move here!), but Chicag...
- The shoeshine stand off the lobby of the County Building had an open chair Friday aft...
- Can you pop a pill for sun protection?
THE CLAIM: Teva, a company that sells a n...
- As reported by the Chicago Daily News, sister paper of the Chicago Sun-Times 75 years...
- On May 2, Marvin Nyren was wheeled into an operating room at Rush University Medical ...
- TORONTO -- Canadian police foiled a homegrown terrorist attack by arresting 17 suspec...
- LIMA, Peru -- When Peruvians elect a new president today, they won't just be deciding...
- The dean of the Chicago-circuit drivers colony, Hall of Famer Dave Magee, guided four...
- Barrington's Erin Pianetto scored the game-winning run after stealing third and scori...
- About the only thing missing from the ECW relaunch is some marquee talent to draw mai...
- Dirk Nowitzki: He has erased "soft" image for good. Next step is reaching championshi...
- The Arizona Diamondbacks optioned rookie Enrique Gonzalez to Class AAA Tucson after h...
- The White Sox lead the major leagues in home runs, but manager Ozzie Guillen had seve...
- At about 2 a.m. on April 16, Theresa Carter, 36, founder of the Web site The Local To...
- In one of the largest volunteer efforts of its kind, NeighborWorks Week, June 3-10, s...
- SCIENCE
INTELLIGENT THOUGHT
Edited by John Brockman
Vintage. 256 pages...
- Please send us your picture, name, address and phone (we won't publish these) along w...
- ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Garrison Keillor certainly knows how to spin a yarn. His favorite ...
- Bill Maher has unleashed his acerbic wit on the Web. His new live weekly show, "Amazo...
- Ilyssa Grant, 30, a single public school teacher in Providence, R.I., was tired of "t...
- So, you've decided to rearrange your living room. The best way to begin this process ...
- Hug it out? Are you crazy?
Jeremy Piven has no time to follow the advice his cha...
- ATLANTA -- Women with advanced breast cancer soon may have another treatment option: ...
- The bulk of the North Lawndale neighborhood's nearly 2,000 historic graystones will b...
- Shares of Revlon Inc. plunged more than 37 percent Friday after the cosmetics company...
- Pomegranates are getting major face time. The ruby-red fruit seems to be everywhere -...
- OPENING SHOT
Two contrary questions:
1. If a hurricane does hit New Orleans...
- TEHRAN, Iran -- A breakthrough in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program is possibl...
- ORLANDO, Fla. -- At just 1 year old, Theo had already turned to a life of crime.
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- ARLINGTON: 8th race SILVER BID (PP 5) The Zen Handicap; quick- from-the-gate type is ...
- Maine South's Matt Kelly will graduate from high school sometime today, adding more h...
- DOVER, Del. -- Rather than firing up the lawn mower this weekend at his North Carolin...
- PAUL KONERKO AND TIM McGRAW
The Sunday Drive hates country music, but switch bla...
- Cincinnati Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo went 3-for-3, drove in a career-high four runs...
- Jim Thome isn't expected to play again until Tuesday to give his strained left groin ...
- CHICKS UP FRONT
The Dixie Chicks have for the past three years taken more hits f...
- In 1892, when First Amendment jurisprudence was in its infancy, Oliver Wendell Holmes...
- In 1953 the New York Yankees won their fifth World Series in a row. Their popular cat...
- CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS
WHILE THEY'RE AT WAR
The True Story of American Famili...
- Ed McCoy went broke chasing his dream -- and not a darn thing came of it.
He los...
- Sunday
"The Sopranos": It's the beginning of the end. The season finale has Tony...
- Mike Formento -- having recently earned his master's degree in financial management -...
- Meredith Taylor's mother still uses an antique English silver tea service that's been...
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- Twenty years ago, she stole some hair-care products. She also had a few drug arrests ...
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- The offense has become the trademark of the 2006 White Sox -- a change of direction t...
- The Daley administration has opened an uncomfortable dialogue with union leaders abou...
- NEW YORK -- On a March morning in 1968, American troops swept into a village on South...
- The American Decency Association, www.americandecency.org, warning us about an advert...
- One of the guys on the sports desk took his girlfriend to Starved Rock State Park thi...
- The boys volleyball state tournament was a testament to the resiliency of youth.
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- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- This was the moment the Rush had waited four years to experience,...
- Proud as the Bears might be of their glorious history, one area that always has been ...
- Travis Hafner hit a grand slam on his birthday and tied a career high with six RBI to...
- MIAMI -- Up by the roof, high above the fans who wear White Hot T- shirts and shake a...
- "We've turned into this nation of overfed clowns, riding around in clown cars, eating...
- Display of this document is restricted due to copyright regulations. Please see the p...
- FICTION
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU
By Carolyn See
Random House. 2...
- VINA, Calif. -- In a Northern California monastery, 25 monks following the teachings ...
- Movies
Peter Billingsley
Look familiar? It's Ralphie
("I want a Red Ry...
- On last week's "Everwood," they killed the narrator. This does not bode well for fans...
- Q. My landlord did not provide us with water for six weeks. Since the water was off, ...
- If showering were merely about getting clean, we could just hose off.
Instead, b...
- BERLIN -- Kimberly Dozier, the CBS reporter wounded by a car bomb in Iraq, now has a ...
- Authorities dismantled a methamphetamine lab at a home in west suburban Hanover Park ...
- How serious a problem is avian flu? We know from a barrage of alarming headlines that...
- Cautious employers added just 75,000 new jobs in May, the fewest in seven months, in ...
- The water that leaked into a ComEd substation Thursday, causing outages and momentary...
- The smallest starter on the least-likely team helped pull off the biggest upset in th...
- World Anti-Doping Agency chairman Dick Pound said Friday that a Dutch investigator's ...
- Kevin Youkilis' two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning vaulted the Boston Re...
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- The younger generation today is a lot smarter than I about a lot of things: where to ...
- FIELD'S ONLINE JOBS CUT
Marshall Field's will lose another 29 jobs, on top of 25...
- SPRINGFIELD -- Trained medical personnel and good samaritans who perform life-saving ...
- The reign is over.
Sun-Times All-Area selection Mike Will had 12 kills as Buffal...
- NORTHWESTERN 2, TENNESSEE 0
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The spring of purple continued.
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- Home fires burn for the White Sox, who have made winning at U.S. Cellular Field somet...
- INDIANAPOLIS -- Police hunted on Friday for the killers who barged into a home and sh...
- They're spreading.
Lyme disease-infected deer ticks have been found in forest pr...
- Earlier this year, Blondie front woman Deborah Harry said the group's upcoming U.S. s...
- Need a top-notch camcorder for a summer wedding or family vacation? JVC's Everio GZ-M...
- MAN SENTENCED IN JAIL GUN INCIDENT
A Chicago man who passed a gun along to a wom...
- Casey Savatski came up the human answer to a rain delay Friday. In a crisp 1 hour, 18...
- COMETS 71, SKY 60
HOUSTON -- Tina Thompson scored 23 points Friday night to lead...
- Astrained left groin adductor muscle forced Jim Thome from the lineup shortly before ...
- Motorists waiting to greet passengers at O'Hare and Midway airports will no longer ha...
- FORT MEADE, Md. -- A military jury sentenced an Army dog handler to 90 days of hard l...
- NEW YORK -- Jessica Alba, ubiquitous in magazine "sexy" polls, hopes to show fans a d...
- International calling has been an expensive and cumbersome process over the years, wi...
- James E. Jones was destined to become a doctor. After losing his mother and infant si...
- Earlier in the week, New Trier's KayAnne Gummersall guaranteed the Trevians would rea...
- PARIS -- It was there in the scrambling defense along the baseline, forcing his foe t...
- The transition from starter to reliever hasn't been as smooth as Brandon McCarthy and...
- Federal authorities are investigating a Des Plaines-based company after allegations s...
- TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran insisted Friday that the West will not deprive it of nuclear tec...
- Daniel Barenboim isn't the only longtime member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's m...
- HOTELS.COM DATA STOLEN
Hotels.com, a unit of Internet travel agency Expedia Inc....
- How appropriate would it be for Loyal Opposition to win the stakes race named in her ...
- No one had to tell the Granite City girls soccer team whom it had to stop heading int...
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- An objection by one former prosecutor has delayed for at least two weeks and possibly...
- TAVARES, Fla. -- A couple tried to hire a hit man to kill their three grandchildren a...
- It's been 10 years since Frank Sinatra Jr. went into the recording studio, and in tha...
- www.standpoint.com
Do you have strong opinions about the existence of God or on ...
- Handicapper Darryl Schwartz offers his top local and intertrack selections
arlin...
- EAST PEORIA -- Missing graduation was worth it.
Behind a nine-strikeout performa...
- The Giants placed Gold Glove catcher Mike Matheny on the 15-day disabled list Friday ...
- A union strike that halted or delayed construction projects throughout northern Illin...
- WASHINGTON -- The Associated Press and four other news organizations have agreed to p...
- NEW YORK -- In Hollywood, even bad publicity is good publicity. But in the real world...
- Walgreen Co. rose $1.70, or 4.2 percent, to close Friday at $42.30. The Deerfield-bas...
- After Eric Gelderman walked the first two batters of the Niles West Sectional semifin...
- MIAMI -- There was no champagne. Not yet, anyway.
After an offseason of often-cr...
- ST. LOUIS -- The Cubs are still 12oe games behind first-place St. Louis in the big pi...
- Two area men were struck by lightning Friday afternoon as they played golf in northwe...
- GROTON, Conn. -- A Learjet registered to religious broadcaster Pat Robertson crashed ...
- WEISZ GIVES BIRTH TO A BOY
It's a boy for Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz ("T...
- Ten years after City Clerk Jim Laski blew the lid off the City Hall scofflaw scandal,...
- Second-seeded New Trier won its second straight boys lacrosse state championship with...
- Playing in the Arena Football League's American Conference championship game isn't ne...
- ST. LOUIS -- Cubs trainer Mark O'Neal said Friday the club remains confident that the...
- The defense in the City Hall hiring trial has served the city with a series of wide-r...
- TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- A man who stuffed a dead mouse into his Taco Bell burrito in ...
- NEW YORK -- It's not exactly the highest-rated show on Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim"...
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- Tom Zbikowski will be venturing into a new profession next Saturday in Madison Square...
- One walked off the field saying he was happy to be a Bear and was here to play footba...
- ST. LOUIS -- Derrek Lee looks at his somewhat withered right wrist and sees a differe...
- BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A military investigation into allegations that American troops inten...
- Terrorists hoping to use two-year-old data on calls to Chicago's 911 center to plan a...
- 'The rule book of international relations has been torn up," British Prime Minister T...
- If the Big One hits California after September 2007 -- Allstate won't cover it. The i...
- Even though Lizzie Marshall grew up during the Great Depression and in Jim Crow Alaba...
- Carl Pettersson made up ground quickly after a six-hour rain delay by playing bogey-f...
- The Bears say fullback Bryan Johnson should be ready to go come training camp, but th...
- Edwin Encarnacion and Austin Kearns each had four RBI, and the Cincinnati Reds scored...
- PALM DESERT, Calif. -- Monaco's Prince Albert II has acknowledged he is the father of...
- About a half dozen employees at Northwestern Memorial Hospital have come down with th...
- No one came to curse him.
No one came to weep for him.
The spacious courtro...
- BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's government launched an inquiry Thursday into allegations that...
- COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- A northern Idaho woman spent Memorial Day in jail, booked for...
- The Marriage Protection Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is scheduled for a vote in...
- NEW YORK -- Rappers Kanye West and Ludacris won a copyright infringement trial Thursd...
- SACRAMENTO -- The California Assembly passed a bill Thursday that would allow AT&T an...
- Federal prosecutors accused a former executive of the Hollinger newspaper empire of f...
- FORT WORTH, Texas -- Perry Richardson Bass, who turned a small fortune from his oil w...
- Losing never comes easy to a competitor like Stagg's George Kamberos. But not playing...
- SKY AT COMETS
The facts: 7:30.
The records: Sky 1-3, Comets 3-1.
The s...
- ST. LOUIS -- A 7-22 record in May seems to offer little hope. But Cubs general manage...
- Todd and Teresa Gray, their two young daughters -- and their Siberian Husky -- moved ...
- TAPES 'N TAPES; COLD WAR KIDS
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- Abbey Pub, 3420 W. Grace
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- Many times during the last several weeks I've found myself watching the actors in a p...
- This is the night, it's a beautiful night, and you're drinking in silky symphonic str...
- DUE OUT TUESDAY
GLORY ROAD
Rating 3
(2006; Disney; 106 minutes)
Ba...
- CALEDONIA, Mich. -- In one small Michigan town, they are talking excitedly about welc...
- In its early months, Gov. Blagojevich's administration tracked the names of applicant...
- Cook County Board President John Stroger was released from the hospital Thursday afte...
- BERLIN -- A CBS correspondent seriously wounded by a car bombing in Iraq was able to ...
- GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Thousands of Palestinian police officers joined a protest ov...
- Your May 28 article, "More pregnant women are saying: Give me the drugs," hit upon on...
- We live in and around buildings so intimately that, even in a great architectural cit...
- The new GlobalComm show for the telecommunications industry makes it debut Sunday as ...
- The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating allegations that Career Education Cor...
- LOS ANGELES -- Peter C. Borsari, whose celebrity photography over three decades inclu...
- There is little doubt the Illinois High School Association hurt girls soccer this spr...
- OKLAHOMA CITY -- Down by one run with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Northwes...
- Sean Marshall knows all about on-the-job training.
"That's what a lot of it is,"...
- As housing sales cool in many markets, a battle for new listings is heating up betwee...
- GALLERIES
Photographers Chase Browder, Jin Lee and Alexis Petroff look into the ...
- Most video games fit neatly into a particular genre. You've got your World War II sho...
- JUNE
3: Blondie and the New Cars, featuring Todd Rundgren, 7:30 p.m.
5: Mar...
- THE BREAK-UP
Rating 2 out of 4
Gary Grobowski Vince Vaughn
Brooke Meye...
- Marriage matters more to men than women. That's the surprising finding of a new surve...
- When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Chicago in 1966, real estate brokers reg...
- GOSHEN, Ind. -- A 14-year-old boy flying to South Bend was surprised when he learned ...
- NEW ORLEANS -- A contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility Thursday f...
- NEW YORK -- From Times Square and the Empire State Building to the Brooklyn Bridge an...
- This weekend "An Inconvenient Truth," the global warming documentary featuring former...
- Dear Ellie: Recently, my 10-year marriage has been turbulent and my wife divulged an ...
- To protect consumers from "billions of dollars" in overcharges, the Illinois attorney...
- We hope your black armbands are securely attached by now.
Without question June ...
- Handicapper Darryl Schwartz offers his top local and intertrack selections
arlin...
- It's likely that nearly all of the opposing coaches who played New Trier this spring ...
- PARIS -- Gael Monfils hopped out of his changeover chair and stood with his back to t...
- CUBS AT CARDINALS
Tonight: 7:10, Comcast SportsNet, 720-AM. Sean Marshall (3-3, ...
- Jim Stuckman, a commercial and residential developer, thought about building a new ho...
- TODAY
The Figurines, 10:30 p.m. June 24, Beat Kitchen; $12. On sale at noon.
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