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- Six years ago, Iron Matthews was part of a crew of Chicago gangsters arrested in Wino...
- BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Thousands of Shiite and Sunni families who once lived side by side h...
- WASHINGTON -- The United States charged 50 leaders of Colombia's largest guerrilla gr...
- "I am a Mexican-born native. I speak fluent English and Spanish. I am a U.S. citizen,...
- Yes, Little Sally. Nothing can kill a show quicker than a bad title. Unless of course...
- If a long-legged, fast-talking New Yorker chases you down in Bucktown and asks if she...
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- When Apple announced that it designed a speaker system with a built-in iPod dock, I h...
- At a time when life was becoming increasingly complicated for many working women, Sus...
- RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, Calif. -- Silver-plated candelabras. A cedar- lined lingerie cabine...
- New York Knicks president Isiah Thomas never played for former DePaul coach Ray Meyer...
- As part of an international monitoring, Denice Acosta saw how an election is run in a...
- FORT MEADE, Md. -- An Army dog handler at Abu Ghraib was convicted Tuesday of torment...
- WASHINGTON -- President Bush welcomed Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to the White House on Tue...
- Last year, Senate majority leader Bill Frist told his colleagues he had changed his m...
- The Supreme Court is highly unlikely to take South Dakota's bait and overturn the 197...
- "Unan1mous" (8:32 p.m., WFLD-Channel 32): This show blows, but I'm giving it " becaus...
- Shoppers at Chicago's Jewel-Osco stores can now pay for their groceries by swiping a ...
- If Mark Suppelsa, Robin Robinson and the rest of the folks who covered Tuesday's prim...
- COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Joseph Serafine, a member of the U.S. Figure Skating Hall ...
- The opening of spring practice is always a time of optimism in college football, but ...
- Bruce Weber is setting the bar high for next season, in terms of both skill and leade...
- Youth beat out experience as hotshot Chicago banker Alexi Giannoulias -- who celebrat...
- Many homeowners have dreamed of a kitchen remodel with professional-grade appliances....
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- Slobodan Milosevic -- suspected war criminal -- is dead. But Slobodan Milosevic -- co...
- A priest who recently served as hospital chaplain at St. Alexius Medical Center in Ho...
- CHESTERFIELD, Va. -- A hospital is promising emergency room patients they'll be seen ...
- INNISFAIL, Australia -- After their town was torn apart by a terrifying cyclone -- am...
- During a long cab ride to O'Hare a number of years ago, the driver, after learning I ...
- In many ways the Cold War was a conflict of ideas. America and its allies stood for f...
- Meet Quentin
Quentin, 12, is a likable, affectionate boy who loves to spend time...
- Sears Holdings Corp. might be interested in buying Michaels Stores, the nation's larg...
- Major League Baseball and the Partnership for a Drug-Free America this week debut the...
- Handicapper Darryl Schwartz offers his top local and intertrack selections
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- TUCSON, Ariz. -- It isn't often that Don Cooper asks to see film on a pitcher from an...
- A year later, Bears general manager Jerry Angelo has the quarterback he longed for. ...
- Democratic Party leaders, lawyers' associations and voters agreed for a change on qua...
- Texture -- particularly the addition of nuts and other crunchy ingredients -- is tren...
- SEATTLE -- A University of Washington medical professor who moved to Botswana to alle...
- Dr. Robert March is midway through a heart-bypass surgery at Rush University Medical ...
- RED LINE CLOSURES THIS WEEKEND
Service on the Red Line L between Cermak-Chinatow...
- TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that he app...
- WASHINGTON -- Reports of psychosis or mania in children were associated with all of t...
- The floors have been cleaned, the lights are beginning to glow, the box of doughnuts ...
- THUMBS DOWN
Michael L. Smith, an Evanston reader, writes:
"News Item: 'Vote...
- Dear Ellie: I'm a reasonably attractive 23-year-old graduate student with varied inte...
- $7.3 MIL. FOR OFFICEMAX EX-CEO
OfficeMax Inc. said Tuesday that it paid former C...
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- TUCSON, Ariz. -- What started as a long shot is now becoming reality as the White Sox...
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- REPUBLICANS
District 45
63 of 71 precincts (89%)
Franco Coladipietro 4...
- Chicago chef Heidi Braun of Chefs du Jour has come up with a twist for edible goods s...
- WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Tuesday that American forces will remain in Iraq fo...
- With ridership growing, the South Shore Line is working on a $40 million plan to add ...
- The old Meigs Airport terminal is back in the flight business. Only this time, the fl...
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- RALEIGH, N.C. -- The man who hit nine people with a sport utility vehicle on the Univ...
- As a Marine veteran of Vietnam, I read with interest Rick Telander's column, "Far too...
- The game of chess is more than just a game, they say. It's life, and life-improving. ...
- Writer Ralph Ellison regarded African Americans as invisible men, but today one might...
- The Fourth Presbyterian Church is nearly back to square one with its plan to sell pro...
- ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- After two weeks on the defensive, Merck & Co. began presenting...
- Daniel Alfredsson netted his career-high 38th goal and assisted on another as the Ott...
- Alfonso Soriano and the Washington Nationals were stuck in a holding pattern Tuesday....
- It's Tuesday afternoon and I'm watching GOP governor hopeful Judy Baar Topinka, the s...
- DEMOCRATS
Rod Blagojevich: 68%
Edwin Eisendrath: 32%
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- What's in a name? mA greal deal, according to chef John Bubala. Bubala is changing no...
- If Einstein can come up with E=mc2, then surely we can simmer up a weeknight dinner f...
- To help hold her shattered pelvis in place, Rosanne Dresher wore a kind of metal Hula...
- If it works for you, who am I to mock it?
Whether you're into Buddha or Jesus or...
- Exelon Corp. is distributing bottled water to about 420 residences as it tests drinki...
- WAUSAU, Wis. -- Snowmobile crashes have killed 36 riders so far this winter -- one fe...
- Researchers say they've shown for the first time that treating a mother's depression ...
- Magnets attract things like bullets. In this case, the magnets are the gang and drug ...
- Love her or hate her, Barbra Streisand apparently is planning yet another "farewell" ...
- A week ago, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that 27 men and women fr...
- General Motors Corp. and Delphi Corp., closing in on an agreement with unions to cut ...
- The U.S. Supreme Court made it harder Tuesday for investors to file class-action laws...
- The greatest record in fishing might be history. It's more likely, though, that the 2...
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- Perhaps no one is taken for granted in an election as much as an election judge -- th...
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- WhiskyFest Chicago
Hyatt Regency
151 E. Wacker
Distillery managers and...
- ORLANDO, Fla. -- To spare the victim from having to testify, state prosecutors decide...
- A boyhood friend who bribed, then turned on convicted City Clerk Jim Laski has finall...
- A Cook County judge set bond at $750,000 Tuesday for a man charged in the fatal shoot...
- A sprawling factory in southern Indiana where much of the nation's toothpaste supply ...
- SQUAWKSVILLE . . .
SCOOPSVILLE . . . of the ice cream kind: Ultraconservative ic...
- The wrong two people were charged with trying to rob a Naperville bank on Thursday. ...
- Two months after extending rail service to Elburn, Metra plans to make several schedu...
- SEATTLE -- Amazon.com Inc. said Monday it had modified the way its search engine hand...
- This week we mark the beginning of the fourth year of the war in Iraq. The president,...
- For those of you who still believe the justice system in America is working, consider...
- "Hope & Faith" (7:30 p.m., WLS-Channel 7): On a new night for the Kelly Ripa/Faith Fo...
- Printing giant R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. of Chicago agreed to buy OfficeTiger for $25...
- Our favorite places on the Net
www.quotes-r-us.org/
It turns out that Bartl...
- BASEL, Switzerland -- Marc Moret, the former chief executive of Ovaltine-maker Sandoz...
- His first season with the Blackhawks certainly hasn't gone the way Curtis Brown wante...
- SAN DIEGO -- Now you can call it a Classic. The inaugural World Baseball Classic -- f...
- NEW YORK -- Paul Tagliabue is leaving the NFL, and he's leaving it both peaceful and ...
- Beef burritos were the featured item Monday in the cafeteria line at Nettlehorst Elem...
- A front-page story in Monday's New York Times about the plight of young black men wil...
- Attorneys have worked out a tentative deal to settle a multimillion-dollar lawsuit in...
- SYDNEY, Australia -- Australian strippers have won the right to take time off after t...
- "I urge you to oppose H.R. 4777, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act. This bill wou...
- A West Side man allegedly got upset with his mailman over the weekend for failing to ...
- She spots him across an empty hotel lounge. Is it Henry Winkler? It is. He sees her c...
- Suburbanites, the Rosen family is coming to you. And they're bringing the wine. And t...
- Oracle Profit Rises 42%
Oracle Corp. said Monday its quarterly profit rose 42 pe...
- Daily, Johnathan Phillips inhabited a rather unique, chilly environment -- one bathed...
- Samuel Pahlsson scored the tiebreaking goal with 3:15 left, and the visiting Anaheim ...
- North Carolina made playing at home of little value to Vanderbilt.
Ivory Latta s...
- WASHINGTON -- Condoleezza Rice is not applying for the newly opened post of NFL commi...
- WASHINGTON -- Chronic heartburn appears to be fueling the nation's fastest-growing ca...
- A prominent developer lashed out at City Hall on Monday for rejecting his innovative ...
- A Cook County clerk who allegedly passed a cell phone to an accused murderer during a...
- GENEVA -- If you've ever been frustrated after an airline lost your luggage, you're i...
- I urge you to oppose H.R. 4777, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act, introduced by ...
- REV. BARROW'S SISTER FOUND
A missing 84-year-old South Side woman was found unha...
- Dear Ellie: I made a fool of myself at a recent party, drinking way too much and offe...
- Wall Street's four-day rally paused Monday, with the major indexes finishing mixed as...
- On their annual study of Yellowstone National Park, students at Benefield Elementary ...
- BASEL, Switzerland -- Marc Moret, the former chief executive of Ovaltine-maker Sandoz...
- It would not be entirely accurate to say that as Ben Gordon goes this season, so go t...
- The sign with a gap-toothed smiley face was raised in the stands as the final seconds...
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- The same piece of evidence the feds believe is a "smoking gun" in the current City Ha...
- Organic milk is moving so fast off the shelves at some Chicago- area stores that if y...
- CLEVELAND -- Beginning the fourth year of an unpopular war, President Bush defended h...
- While the death of Slobodan Milosevic should be a cause to celebrate, his demise shou...
- QT Digest of Thoughts for Election Day (for Your Convenience):
- H. L. Mencken: ...
- "Total Request Live," 2:30 p.m., MTV: Singer Shakira; rapper Wyclef Jean.
"106 &...
- ST. LOUIS -- Monsanto Co. will boost production of a growth hormone that makes dairy ...
- No doubt about it. Automotive advertising can be exasperatingly predictable. And some...
- LAHORE, Pakistan -- Mohammed Ali, one of Pakistan's most popular movie stars also kno...
- Alfonso Soriano refused to play the outfield for the Washington Nationals in what was...
- Money is no object for Bradley University in the NCAA basketball tournament.
The...
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- Pepsi and Coke are at it again -- but the latest battle in the Cola Wars is not caffe...
- Elected officials, community organizers and residents were among the throng attending...
- NEW ORLEANS -- Mayor Ray Nagin finished work Monday on a plan to rebuild New Orleans,...
- INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana residents by a narrow margin prefer keeping state laws that b...
- In your editorial ["Now is the time to stand against terror in our streets," March 14...
- The paparazzi are waiting with bated breath for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to get m...
- A new battle is under way in the world of high-end handbags.
Fendi, Prada and ot...
- Sears Canada Offer Extended
Sears Holdings Corp., the No. 1 U.S. department-stor...
- Staffers who walked past Debbie Carpenter's office Friday thought it was odd that she...
- Caryl M. Peterson cherished antique treasures and her hometown of Blue Island, and sh...
- Kobe Bryant scored 16 of his 43 points in the fourth quarter and had five steals to c...
- ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Dion Harris hit a three-pointer as time expired Monday to lift Mi...
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- Talk about uplift. Sensual Steps isn't limited just to the high heels of Chinese Laun...
- MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- During the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott last ye...
- ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Is that spring in the air -- or an old gym sock on fire?
In sa...
- How ironic that the same politicians I voted for, who argued for my right not to be d...
- Controversy continues to swirl around Comedy Central's "South Park."
It now appe...
- More than 90 years ago, on March 3, 1913, a small group of women organized a remarkab...
- SEATTLE -- When a New Jersey judge ruled that Amazon.com Inc. breached a groundbreaki...
- The newspaper industry is fighting back. Amid repeated claims the Internet is stealin...
- A number of people assumed that the New Trier Green hockey team would be making an ap...
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- KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Robert Morris' quest for the NAIA Division I national championshi...
- Bill Cattorini is not a terrorist. I feel reasonably sure of that.
If he's a sle...
- The North of Howard neighborhood at the far end of the city has struggled with crime ...
- If you hear a soft windy sound floating on the air this week, it is the collective si...
- Claypool stays on campaign message: Honor County Board president's accomplishments, b...
- Republican Jim Oberweis on Sunday defended his last-minute offer to gubernatorial pri...
- KABUL, Afghanistan -- An Afghan man is being prosecuted and could be sentenced to dea...
- NEW YORK -- Members of a shadowy U.S. military unit turned one of Saddam Hussein's to...
- Will the three boxes that the FBI delivered to a Mississippi prosecutor last week fin...
- The incumbent Cook County president is [76] years old, obese, diabetic, and now is su...
- "So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million- year war for Earth h...
- Talk about blowing the dust off a classic. In his richly expressionistic and often su...
- For millions of boomers who hit 50 this year, the prospect of retirement looms closer...
- Brenda Sexton, head of the state film office, thinks Illinois businesses could be mor...
- Even though there were plenty of winners at the Public League's co-ed indoor track ch...
- WASHINGTON -- If only this chase was as exciting as those televised live from the fre...
- JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- In the final seconds of Florida's 82-60 victory Saturday agains...
- DAYTON, Ohio -- Michigan State? Gone. Defending national champion North Carolina? Gon...
- Dear Tom and Ray:
I own a Burgundy (I know that's important) 1992 Honda Accord. ...
- Chicago gangs producing fake money, Secret Service says
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- It began as a telephone conversation between a CTA employee and a CTA customer.
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- WASHINGTON -- President Bush marked the anniversary of the Iraq war Sunday by touting...
- MAILBU, Calif. -- A year after Robert Blake was acquitted in criminal court of killin...
- RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- With Palestinians facing severe shortages of bread, milk and oth...
- As noted by Michael Krauss ["Labor Dept. snub leads to real innovation," business col...
- Dear Ellie: I have a wonderful, loving relationship with a divorced mother of a teena...
- The "Mahabharata" and the "Ramayana" are the two great epics of Hindu literature that...
- Can You Start a Tech Company in Chicago and Make Money?
Telution CEO Kent Steffe...
- Fans booed when Lane Tech basketball star -- and future Chicago legend -- Bato Goveda...
- It is funny to hear Lane Tech senior Priyanka Deo tell the story of playing in only h...
- WASHINGTON -- Kirk Hinrich had an X-ray taken of his right elbow Sunday after the Bul...
- Dignitaries from politics to the sports world will join everyday Chicagoans today whe...
- AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Shake down the cobwebs braving its name. Bradley basketball ha...
- Dear Fixer: In July, we purchased a garage screen door online from Kitty Mac Fresh Ai...
- Call it the cost of growth.
Will County, which has gained more people over the l...