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- White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen doesn't mind the fist-pumping and sky-pointing antics...
- What first struck me was the empty chair. There it was, center stage, between Northwe...
- Like a lot of politicians, I want to help my own kid get a great job. Problem is my b...
- According to the [June 24] article "Controversial judge plans to retire": "A judge wh...
- THURSDAY
David Stone signs Chicago's Classical Architecture: The Legacy of The W...
- BOISE, Idaho -- Thousands of vacationers in the West will likely see a wolf in the wi...
- Now the truth can be told: ET's best buddy was a little creep. Henry Thomas, who play...
- NEW YORK -- It might be a hard sell to Average Joe, but tough guys do wear tights. Th...
- Q. I am renting a condo in Chicago. In April I learned the unit is being foreclosed. ...
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- Attorney General Lisa Madigan is trying to grow a new set of muscles.
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- On July 4, 1980, 36 vendors set up their wares on Michigan Avenue between Wacker and ...
- MEXICO CITY -- A gaggle of farmers in threadbare shirts swarmed into a swank shopping...
- SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Abbye Stockton, a pioneer of female weightlifters who helped ...
- STRASBOURG, France -- With the first Tour de France of the post- Lance Armstrong era ...
- Forget the ESPYs. What most baseball players want more than anything in the world is ...
- White Sox fans have paid premium prices for seats at always-sold- out Wrigley Field t...
- Ludacris was the first rapper to complain about Oprah. In the May 2006 issue of GQ, h...
- The U.S. Supreme Court delivered an unambiguous rebuke to presidential power on Thurs...
- I'm all in favor of aldermen getting a $20,000 pay raise as soon as they bring the po...
- John Chandler sits at the cash register of Bookman's Corner surrounded by boxes. Last...
- Will it be Gordon, Isaac, Nadine or Patty? Which storm will put the damper on your su...
- NEW YORK -- Although The 5 Browns are sensations in the classical music world, a sign...
- Scores of African-American artists have focused on country music over the years. Here...
- Jenn and her husband just moved to the big city from a small Northern town, and bough...
- Donald Trump is successful in many ways -- real estate, marketing, self-promotion -- ...
- A Chicago man claiming to be the biological father of a 2-year- old boy received a se...
- Q. If people smoke light cigarettes, are they more likely to be able to quit?
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- OPENING SHOT
With the Fourth of July a few days off, American flags have sproute...
- TRENTON, N.J. -- Gov. Jon Corzine shut down the state government Saturday after a dea...
- TOKYO -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, who stood up to the United...
- If ever there was a time for a sports history lesson, this is it. Golf barely existed...
- A.J. Pierzynski and controversy are a marriage made for pay-per- view. Signing the ba...
- One pitch, one swing, and it's over. The game, the fight, and even Dusty Baker's time...
- Editor's note: This is an excerpt from a review of the book Marriage, a History: From...
- Facing the real prospect of losing control of the Senate in this year's elections, Ma...
- The only thing that's good about this project is the cost to Chicago: zero dollars ["...
- The Book of the Dead
In the last book of a trilogy, authors Douglas Preston and ...
- LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A new visitors center will be ready for the 50th anniversary of ...
- The Grant Park Orchestra accompanies Eisenstein's silent film with Shostakovich's sco...
- ROSEANNE-O-RAMA
New on DVD: "Roseanne: The Complete Fourth Season (1991)"
A...
- If you don't know this plant by it's proper name (which means "beans of branches" in ...
- Celebrities can't help but keep picking at the scab we call love. Maybe the pool of s...
- Even in an administration famous for its contempt for science, President Bush's tortu...
- Can a high-tech scan reveal whether Alzheimer's disease is the cause of your forgetfu...
- Police in northwest Indiana have arrested two people and are pursuing a third in last...
- Dodge Challenger is muscling its way back into the marketplace.
The Challenger, ...
- For a $24,000 sticker price, the latest Honda has all the amenities you'd expect from...
- IRVINE, Calif. -- Charles H. Sawyer, a neurobiology professor who performed influenti...
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- The Farragut High School principal who has been under investigation by the Chicago Pu...
- A.J. Pierzynski's revenge was sweeter than anything a sucker punch to the jaw could p...
- Nevermind Superman's sexual orientation. Here's another identity- related question th...
- The Catholic order that runs Notre Dame High School for Boys is withdrawing its finan...
- It was the first time they sat on a plane or saw a big city.
But what drew the 1...
- If you don't like Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony, wait a minute. Like Chicago weather...
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- Criminal defense attorney Michael G. Johnson has developed a reputation at the 26th a...
- BERLIN -- Racked with exhaustion, its leader hobbled by cramps and fatigue, Germany s...
- PITTSBURGH -- Jim Leyland would never say so publicly, but he let his players know wh...
- The death of Northwestern football coach Randy Walker felt like - - in the words of s...
- Gasoline prices around the Chicago area hit an all-time high Friday and might have so...
- Former state inspector general Dean Bauer is not entitled to collect a state pension ...
- TNT has picked up its red-hot series "The Closer" for a third season.
The cable ...
- Kirk Kerkorian, General Motors Corp.'s biggest individual shareholder, urged the stru...
- Professional boxer Andrew Golota plans to come out fighting against weapons charges f...
- QUARTERFINALS
- Friday at Berlin
Germany 1, Argentina 1, Germany wins 4-2 o...
- Rounding the bases while his giddy teammates poured from the dugout, Adam Dunn was th...
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- Federal investigators probing alleged job rigging in Gov. Blagojevich's administratio...
- SELMER, Tenn. -- A minister's wife charged with murdering her husband told police she...
- LONDON -- Former "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff had surgery after severing a tendon...
- FEDS FINALIZE BOEING PAYOUT
The Justice Department announced a final agreement F...
- Despite his videotaped confession, a Chicago man convicted of murder deserves a new t...
- STRASBOURG, France -- A major doping scandal threw the first Tour de France of the po...
- The Washington Nationals will retain general manager Jim Bowden when the team is offi...
- A political career that began 53 years ago came to an end Friday as Cook County Board...
- The mother of former Time magazine reporter Julie Grace on Friday told a Cook County ...
- LOS ANGELES -- Lauralee Bell has been very happy working in the family business.
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- Cendant Corp. agreed to sell its travel division, including the Chicago-based Orbitz ...
- MEXICO CITY -- Mercedes Quesada de Fox, the mother of Mexican President Vicente Fox, ...
- HAMBURG, Germany -- Italy was supposed to advance only as far as its spectacular defe...
- The Cubs are halfway to history. Just 50 more losses in their remaining 83 games and ...
- They were on their way to rescue a person in distress off North Avenue Beach. But the...
- The 26th annual Taste of Chicago opened Friday at Grant Park, and as savvy veterans t...
- NEW YORK -- Lil' Kim says she'll be celebrating Independence Day early this year.
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- I was interviewing Howard Stringer, the CEO of Sony, on stage at a conference on "all...
- NEW YORK -- Lloyd Richards, theater director and educator who mentored the career of ...
- WIMBLEDON, England -- Martina Hingis wiped away a tear as she walked off Centre Court...
- Ozzie Guillen blustered on May 21 when the White Sox and Cubs last met that pitcher R...
- MIAMI -- The alleged ringleader of a group of aspiring terrorists accused of plotting...
- Income inequality in America is worse now than at any time since World War II. But fo...
- STOCKTON, Calif. -- Actor Rob Schneider was taken to a northern California hospital a...
- FRENCH MUSIC LAW OK'D
French legislators gave final approval to a law that force...
- The Bulls begin making telephone calls today as the NBA's free- agent contact period ...
- Illinois coach Bruce Weber gave Demetri McCamey of St. Joseph the scholarship offer h...
- It would have been nice if it were a simple epiphany for Cliff Politte.
Maybe th...
- Randy Walker called his field-goal kicker, Joel Howells, early Thursday, just to see ...
- Disney acknowledges that a character in its kids' movie "Cars" exhibits "poor judgmen...
- Homegrown terrorism is a reality in the United States, and as one of America's larges...
- MUSIC REVIEW
AMADOU & MARIAM
At the Pritzker Pavilion
Anyone who walke...
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- The Milwaukee Bucks traded point guard T.J. Ford to the Toronto Raptors on Friday nig...
- Justan Vaughn's phone ran at about 1 a.m. Friday morning. He knows that if the phone ...
- Ozzie Guillen is never one to keep quiet about anything, but Friday was the exception...
- Conrad Black, former chairman of Sun-Times owner Hollinger International, was ordered...
- They came from Bridgeport, Bartlett and northern Indiana. As you approached Wrigley F...
- Imagine our world without some of the notable engineering feats of the past two centu...
- NEW YORK -- New MSNBC chief Dan Abrams has made his first big changes to the news cha...
- Apple Computer Inc. shares fell 2.9 percent after the company said late Thursday that...
- With puddles in the fairway and swamps in the rough, the trick was to find high groun...
- Rasheed Ward, Northwestern receiver: "I'll always be grateful to coach Walker. He was...
- A hero a day on the South Side of town. A heartache a day on the North Side.
For...
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- MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- It didn't take much coaxing from President Bush to get Japanese Pri...
- LATIN MUSIC REVIEW
BEBE
at the house of blues
Maybe it was leather avi...
- United Airlines will recall 125 furloughed pilots after a shortage forced the carrier...
- M&M FACTORY REMAINS CLOSED
After failing an inspection for the third time in Jun...
- Brooke Wyckoff's infectious smile was still there Thursday night at the UIC Pavilion,...
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- There was no gray area for A.J. Pierzynski earlier this week.
In the White Sox c...
- Friday's review of "Movin' Out" at the Auditorium Theatre should have identified Darr...
- BEIJI, Iraq -- A group of American soldiers in an insurgent- riddled town allegedly n...
- MIAMI -- A dancer and actress who claimed she was harassed for having large breasts a...
- BERLIN -- Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.I.Am was being investigated by authorities in...
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- The Maple Leafs bought out the contract of enforcer Tie Domi and declined to pick up ...
- Northwestern athletic director Mark Murphy wasn't talking about Randy Walker's possib...
- Maybe it was his sense of history and appreciation of all things Cubs and White Sox. ...
- LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- A 12-year-old boy died after riding a roller coaster Thursd...
- Under fire for the leadership vacuum in Cook County government, stroke-stricken John ...
- While there is a "heightened awareness" of last year's fatal shooting a few blocks fr...
- TRENTON, N.J. -- Muddy floodwaters poured into homes, basements and stores on both si...
- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- British troops hunting pro-Taliban insurgents in southern Af...
- The defeat of the flag desecration amendment is a good first step toward getting our ...
- LOS ANGELES -- Nicolas Cage has donated $2 million to help former child soldiers all ...
- Throughout the 1940s and '50s, she was a career woman ahead of her time, confident an...
- Baxter International Inc. said it reached agreement with U.S. regulators on steps it ...
- MACON, Ga. -- Johnny Jenkins, a guitarist who worked with Otis Redding in the early 1...
- DALLAS -- Evander Holyfield is 43. He hasn't fought in nearly two years, hasn't won i...
- Coco Crisp sprinted into the gap, soared through the air and slammed to the ground --...
- Michael Barrett had the best live view of The Punch on May 20. The Cubs catcher can't...
- Settlers Ridge, a development in S- gar Grove, has been selected as the site for the ...
- 28 MOVIES
Fashion magazine maven Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep, left) has a con...
- CURTAIN CALL
Samm-Art Williams is among a group of playwrights who in the 1970s ...
- Once a year, Columbus Drive -- between Balbo and Monroe -- is the culinary capital of...
- LOS ANGELES -- Tyrese Gibson is no longer a baby boy at acting. He's so grown up that...
- Count your fingers and check your wallet after opening "The Phil Silvers Show" box se...
- WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his au...
- MILWAUKEE -- A Prospect Heights woman charged with stalking Hall of Fame announcer Bo...
- Tuesday is the Fourth of July. Here's how public services are affected:
- Mail: ...
- ATLANTA -- The arena crowd was on its feet, dancing to the lively beat. Colored light...
- CLEBURNE, Texas -- A rail yard worker who lost his legs when a train ran him over use...
- Thank you for your reporting on Disney's lapse of judgment displayed in the movie "Ca...
- LOS ANGELES -- Mariska Hargitay, star of NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," a...
- LOS ANGELES -- Superman beat Batman at the box office. But he was only half as strong...
- Walgreen Co., the biggest U.S. drugstore chain by revenue, agreed to buy Medmark Hold...
- Elayne Donenberg loved the finer things in life: good food, good entertainment or goo...
- The NCAA men's basketball committee announced Thursday that it rejected a coaches' pr...
- Barry Bonds' personal trainer refused to testify Thursday to the federal grand jury i...
- PITTSBURGH -- There was no bruise, no bleeding.
Barely even a stagger.
So w...
- Q.I have an old tar-and-gravel shingled roof that I am getting redone. My contractor ...
- The improv group that put Chicago on the map finds the humor in bad news both at home...
- TODAY
Eric Lindell, 9 p.m. July 15, Beat Kitchen; $10. On sale at noon.
Angry...
- The Taste wants to stick it to us -- literally. What else can explain all the foods o...
- NASCAR champ Matt Kenseth will be on hand to greet fans on Wednesday when the Joliet ...
- DUE OUT TUESDAY
THE MATADOR RATING 3 1/2
(2006; Weinstein; 96 minutes)
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- CAIRO, Egypt -- Osama bin Laden defended attacks by Abu Musab al- Zarqawi against civ...
- The South Side homeowner, a 51-year-old landscaper, came home from work Wednesday eve...
- A former Chicago firefighter faces 35 months in prison after admitting he dealt cocai...
- VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI pressed ahead with his appeals for a unified church...
- GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- A 5-month-old girl died after being left all day in a minivan wh...
- I applaud Sen. James Meeks for bringing the problem of school funding to light. But w...
- HBO made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
Four more key cast members of "The ...
- The Federal Reserve on Thursday raised a key interest rate for the 17th consecutive t...
- Hollinger International Inc., publisher of the Sun-Times, won dismissal of most of a ...
- DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Bill Gazaway, a longtime NASCAR executive during the sport's m...
- BERLIN -- It would have been a classic World Cup final: Germany vs. Argentina in Berl...
- The consensus view in the Cubs' clubhouse Thursday was that a 5- 4 shortfall against ...
- Despite the lingering tension between the teams,
umpires will issue no warnings ...
- Q. My family likes to be cool during the summer, but the electric bills kill my budge...
- CHICAGO COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL
Featuring: Glenn Campbell, Yonder Mountain String...
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- Here is a list of holiday fireworks shows. Most shows start as soon as it's dark enou...
- 'Igot to Australia, like, a week before they did," says Sara Paxton of her "Aquamarin...
- SEAFOOD AND MORE SEAFOOD
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- You could think of Larry Clark's "Wassup Rockers" as "Ferris Velasquez's Day Off." In...
- Are the long knives out for Cook County Board President John Stroger's loyal chief of...
- COUNTY NURSES OK PACT
With an 88 percent vote, Cook County nurses approved a lab...
- A man killed by police acted alone in strangling an 83-year-old widow during a botche...
- BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The U.S. military claimed an advantage in the fight against al-Qaida...
- ROSWELL, Ga. -- Patsy Ramsey, thrust into a national spotlight by the unsolved 1996 s...
- While it is fair to criticize Ald. Todd Stroger on his ability, it is somewhat unfair...
- Sensitive skin knows no age or skin type, and skin can be sensitive either all of the...
- As Debbie McLaughlin's infant son, Sean, was learning to smile, she worried about end...
- Less than six weeks remain to the deadline for submitting entries to the fifth annual...
- CALISTOGA, Calif. -- Al Brounstein, founder of Diamond Creek Vineyards and a pioneer ...
- Harrison Frazar returned from a long layoff to grab a share of the first-round lead i...