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- O brother, where art trou?
- Lawmaker runs with ‘big boys’ for transit
- QUICK TRIPS
- Death Notice: MICHAEL J. DeROBERTIS
- Tell us about your Leap Day birthday party
- Schwarzenegger: No endorsement
- Death Notice: HELEN C. RADAKOVICH
- Death Notice: JACK STANDRING
- WORLD WATCH
- Next stop on campaign trail: Bizarro World
- Gender gap in subprimes
- A MODERN-DAY ROMANCE
- And Venza makes 17 for Toyota
- Marginal man no more
- Death Notice: JAMES GARY STUART
- Copper moves out of the kitchen and into everything including fabrics
- Tech showcase made in USA for use in China
- Momentum for McCain; Clinton turns up the heat
- TV mailbag
- Army: Militants killed on Afghan border
- Death Notice: JAMES C. GROGAN
- Death Notice: CAYETANO HERNANDEZ
- After 8-game skid, that’s 3 wins in row
- ‘Choreplay’ vs. foreplay
- Bill Belew: 1931 – 2008
- H&G to do list
- GM chief: Consolidate more dealerships
- Home biology 101–a study guide
- Death Notice: CARLO GLITTA
- Clothed in confidence
- Midwest fun, snow or no snow
- High and mighty
- Death Notice: KAREN M. GENTZ
- Iowa pair flattens Michigan
- Death Notice: HANNA I. SCHULTZ
- NAMES & NUMBERS
- Death Notice: MERIDY L. MOORE
- Death Notice: WALTER C. FISCHER
- Lowest international fares for Jan. 18
- Mavericks 111, Sonics 96
- Death Notice: PATRICIA EGGLER
- Critics at war with military justice
- Payroll zinger has ’em rollin’
- Cincy making waves in Big East
- TV trivia
- Pursuit of the most affordable airfare
- Dillard saves his best for last
- Warren’s Boothe pumps in 25–in just 3 quarters
- Arrest in 1981 slaying brings some relief for victim’s family
- ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- BEST IN BUSINESS TRAVEL
- Death Notice: CHARLES TIPP
- Arrest in 1981 slaying brings some relief for victim’s family
- Death Notice: EDWARD MANDEL
- For state’s attorney: Allen
- Death Notice: KEN LEWIS
- Exchange rates
- CDC to probe skin condition
- Raiders live up to their name
- Gracious living: Ditch the caterer and live with pizazz
- To the young, hip crowd embracing stationery and handwriting, we want to say… Thank you
- Steve Harvey wants you to know he’s fly
- Senior complex seeks to stay gay
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (Letters)
- Brookfield giraffe dies after neck is tangled
- Death Notice: EDWARD J. MURRAY
- Death Notice: CATHERINE E. DELANEY
- Resources
- Death Notice: TREVA L. MOBLEY
- A New Deal for a New Economy
- ELSEWHERE
- Sears to shift to independently run units
- Trapped in the Creation Museum
- Perpetual motion, emotion
- You have to hunt for radio codes
- Flush with fish
- Fixing transit to be a marathon
- Death Notice: JOSEPH E. WEIDNER
- How $5 could save the music industry
- Death Notice: RUTH M. GARDELLA
- Death Notice: HARRIET BRUHN
- Sixers 99, Raptors 95
- Scientists quietly prepare for nuclear terrorism
- Death Notice: GLENN NEUGEBAUER
- Death Notice: GILBERT M. CONGORAN
- Death Notice: STANISLAW ISKRA
- Don’t create a bigger monster in your yard
- Death Notice: THOMAS F. HURLEY
- Sale hardly sailing along
- Illini blow lead, and Weber blows up
- Death Notice: EDWARD FRANCIS SCOTT
- CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS
- Conan O’Brien is moving up — and not just a time slot
- American wives, Saudi lives
- Auction has pigeons flying high as war heroes
- Death Notice: BLANCHE EICHLER
- Saturday’s roundup
- Next up, focus on family and community
- Putting home in the spotlight
- Keep the (vacation) home fires burning
- WORLD NEWS RECAP: TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
- CDC to investigate mystery skin ailment
- Olsen and a sexy beast heat up Sundance fest
- Warriors 119, Bucks 99
- Brokers’ pay up 8% in year of losses
- A 50-m.p.g. lineup is hardly a fleet feat
- Losing skid longest in Riley’s career
- GM chief: Consolidate more dealerships
- History project helps dig up African-American treasures
- Jane’s not-so-thrifty ‘thrifty’ sofa
- Smith, to abolish this office
- Road full of potholes
- Why is a moth orchid dropping its buds?
- Death Notice: ANNA OCHOA VALENCIA
- Magic 101, Blazers 94
- Rollover IRA good place to consolidate assets
- Shopping for a washer? Consider these points
- Many factors heating up refinancing efforts again
- Great winter city escapes PMA this winter from Chicago around Midwest
- ELSEWHERE
- Glass worker convicted in ’96 killing of couple
- Death Notice: PETER S. SCHAEFER
- From taxi rides, each has found a lifeline
- Death Notice: JOAN F. RUNGE
- 5 ways to greener indoors
- Thorpe: Let editor get ‘barbecued’
- H&G to do list
- Featured Steinway piano is ready for its close-up
- Death Notice: CATHERINE NISSEN
- DEATHS LAST WEEK
- Getting past the market pitfalls
- Drop in abortion rate shows society changing, not the law
- Death Notice: ARCHIE N. CAMPBELL
- Practice squad over Bears?
- Fleur du jour
- Neuqua Valley pins down 5th straight title
- Keeping vital records safe
- Critics at war with military justice
- Plea deal for leader in body part plot
- Susan Sontag’s rage to live; Brad Renfro’s life of pain
- Woman’s body found in Lake Michigan
- Death Notice: MARY R. HOMA
- Marshall scores one for the city
- Death Notice: ELEANOR I. DUNNE
- Death Notice: OZFERATU VON WALTERS
- East Garfield Park project grows
- For primaries, parties play each other’s tunes
- ‘Offensive funk’ proves costly
- Man assaulted on New Year’s Eve dies
- A shot at poker’s big time
- Woody Allen makes movies to please audience of 1
- Death Notice: ANTHONY S. BALEK
- Badgers run past Wildcats in 2nd half
- Death Notice: SEIZO TAMURA
- Death Notice: RUSSELL G. SCHWASS
- Death Notice: DONALD K. ANDERSON
- Death Notice: HAROLD JACOBS
- Death Notice: ANNA MARIA METTLER
- Obama giving away funds linked to Rezko
- Death Notice: TESSIE C. NEUMANN
- Burden of proof?
- The second time around
- Wrigley not as old as Cubs’ streak
- Where have all the kickstands gone?
- Death Notice: PHILOMENA MATTUCCI
- Death Notice: ELEANOR I. YOUNG
- Death Notice: JOHN SHAMET
- Experts: Zoo animals often taunted
- Drive seeks to ban affirmative action
- Death Notice: EDWARD FONCIER SWARTZ JR.
- Clothed in confidence
- Schools eye a laptop per pupil
- Corrections officer killed in Ryan crash
- Glove Box
- sunday 4:51 p.m.
- Death Notice: LORRAINE M. CONDREN
- Ones to watch: A look at latest HDTVs
- Expect the unexpected from stash
- ASK TOM WHY
- Pleshette, of ‘Bob Newhart Show,’ dies
- Putting U.S. in space put research lab on the map
- Death Notice: JAMES J. GRANAT
- Man who keyed car gets day in court; so do Marines
- Boy, man improving after home invasion
- Facing a continental divide
- Death Notice: PHILIP W. KAREIVA
- Some urge vote boycott at mosque
- Death Notice: EDWARD LESLIE REEVES
- Laptops become teacher’s pet
- What you ought to be reading
- Death Notice: ORVAL B. SAFRANSKI
- Zoos have never been more necessary
- Argonne, Fermilab lick wounds after fierce federal budget fight
- Get set for a shock: Chargers will win
- Illegal West Bank settlers vex Israel
- Income annuities more insurance than investment
- Death Notice: MARIANNE T. FERGUSON
- Friday’s roundup
- Neighbor liable for damage to unit
- Three more Marines’ charges and fates
- The highs and lows of winter in the Midwest
- 17 ways to escape the TV writers strike
- Death Notice: DOROTHY J. KIEFER
- Penguins step up without Crosby
- Allan Melvin: 1923 – 2008
- Neighbor is liable for damages from his unit
- Grand Crossing school gets a lift
- DEATHS LAST WEEK
- Hawks in full playoff mode
- Death Notice: ROZANNE GERSTMAN
- Comedy star shares spotlight with his home
- Death Notice: FLORENCE K. KOVACIC
- Former cop gets 25 years in rape
- Death Notice: CHESTER G. HAGEMANN
- For many, home valuations are psychological
- Death Notice: FRANCES C. POLEK
- 27 dresses, 27 reincarnations
- With migraines, think management, not cure
- The lure of the outdoors
- Death Notice: MARIE BURNS
- Death Notice: HARRIET A. SHANDLING
- 5 THINGS WE LEARNED FROM . . .
- Tattoo your loo with vinyl covers
- Death Notice: CHRISTINE M. ANDERSON
- Little guy’s spree keys Meteors’ upset
- Death Notice: HAROLD F. BJERKE
- Church hopes to rebuild after fire
- Knicks 88, Heat 84
- Death Notice: CHESTER POLAD
- Writers may return to negotiating table
- Deng sits down as Achilles’ flares up
- Death Notice: AUGUST A. GRAF
- IN-BOX
- Sutherland just doing time and laundry
- Death Notice: ALBERT E. KAUPAS
- Biggest tests yet to come
- Nuggets 111, T’wolves 108
- Nets at Clippers, late
- For Zhang, no better model
- Redbirds’ perfect trip in Valley ends
- Cops say Peterson still focus in disappearance of his wife
- McFadden, Smith top early entries
- THE NEW THEOLOGY
- Death Notice: FLORIAN PRYSMIKI
- Death Notice: HELEN M. BRILL
- The family jeweler
- Artisan’s quirky creations are luxury for the birds
- Slow-cooking for cold winter days
- Death Notice: VELLA FRANCES KINNETT
- Death Notice: RICHARD M. SCHOBEL
- Death Notice: GLEN K. KATAURA
- POKER
- Bobcats 105, Grizzlies 87
- Stay warm and chic in knit dresses
- Death Notice: PATRICIA L. CONLEY
- Death Notice: JOHN D. BENEDEK
- ‘November’ hits a political funny bone — all too easily
- Death Notice: GUADALUPE ANAYA
- Death Notice: BRIAN J. RUDNICK
- Some urge boycott of vote at mosque
- Cold, hard fact: Packers punter kicks adversity
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (Letters)
- Death Notice: BEDE ZELDA BRISKI
- 8 people charged in drug investigation
- NATIONAL NEWS RECAP: TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
- Death Notice: VIOLET W. COSIMANO
- TRIAL BY POVERTY
- Death Notice: ANNA NELSON
- Death Notice: CATHERINE CARUSO
- Rare air might free wireless customers
- Daisies earn their stars and stripes
- Death Notice: C. DEAN KASSON
- Housing tax credits join political fray
- Death Notice: THOMAS R. HARWOOD
- Yeah, so I cry; it’s my kids’ fault
- Death Notice: GREGORY P. SANSONE
- WHO: Greg Cameron
- Kings 110, Pacers 104
- 5 THINGS WE LEARNED FROM . . .
- Death Notice: KATHLEEN LOHER
- ELSEWHERE
- Death Notice: OLGA HUSARIK
- Death Notice: HELEN J. BERG
- Hold the applause on new transit bill
- Sundance films turn away from last season’s overt politics
- Death Notice: HAROLD JACOBS
- Reporters’ panel hits 30, not -30-
- Death Notice: CHRISTIAN RINGHAVER
- Death Notice: CLINTON L. LEATHERS
- Bison rise to the challenge
- One cool customer
- Death Notice: JAMES WOODBURN III
- U.S. skiers encounter ups, downs
- Sharing photos is sex harassment
- DISCOVERIES
- 10 years after plant closed, Zion slowly regains its glow
- Housing prices continue to suffer
- Cause celebre
- Death Notice: MARILYN G. PENIX
- Death Notice: RANSERI ALMAZAN JR.
- Getting the max out of minimalism
- Non-profit that shaped Chicago scene marks 40 years
- Cicero woman was strangled, officials say
- CAMPAIGN DIGEST
- Wild about Harry . . .
- Death Notice: NORMAN H. FIELDS
- Nevada gets its moment in the sun
- 8 years later, McCain’s win sweet second time around
- TODAY
- Death Notice: LEONARD J. CZARNECKI
- Presidential portraits
- Death Notice: JOHN T. TRAHEY JR.
- Student strike honed future lawyer’s mediation ability
- IN BRIEF
- Death Notice: RAYMOND M. DRUST
- Baying for snow
- Rockets 83, Spurs 81
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (Letters)
- Death Notice: PATRICIA A. BRADLEY
- Baxter enjoys renewed health
- Spate of recent films take scribes at their words on writing process
- Death Notice: Rev. Hierodeacon Boris Miller
- Death Notice: LILLIAN B. LUKENS
- Death Notice: FLOYD G. ZACKRISON
- Death Notice: HAROLD G. SMIT
- NEWS IN BRIEF
- Let it snow
- ‘Potty’ songs for kids-in-training
- Down and dirty
- Worker classification more than pay
- Death Notice: RALPH WILLIAM AIELLO
- Cachet without commitment
- ELSEWHERE
- Drive seeks to ban affirmative action
- Israeli air strike kills 2 Hamas militants
- Death Notice: RALPH B. ELSNER
- Death Notice: GEORGE H. DUSCHENE
- Jays trade for a cornerstone
- Death Notice: RALPH CONRAD CISSA
- Mary Vedder: 1924 – 2008
- Death Notice: MARILYN T. LEONARD
- Bulls remain butts of joke
- Alternate ZIPs
- ELSEWHERE
- Year’s best sellers wrench hearts and thumbs in Japan
- Death Notice: EDWARD VanWITZENBERG
- NO SMALL PLANS
- Complete the purge
- Death Notice: ALBERT LEVIN
- Death Notice: RITA JEAN HAYES
- WORLD NEWS RECAP: TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
- The week ahead
- Get smart: Products line up to flex their intellectual heft
- Charles Schwab founder key to recovery
- Death Notice: ANNETTE L. HORSLEV
- Death Notice: GIUSEPPE A. AURELIO
- Race hides campaign’s bigger issues
- Death Notice: FRANK M. SAGONA
- Indian stakes claim to dormant French throne
- Multitaskers
- Death Notice: VERA DeBARTOLO
- SENIOR TRANSIT
- Cubs great in ’08? Don’t take the bait
- It’s got a good beat and you can sweat to it
- Death Notice: AGNES D. GREEN
- Changing deadly artisan customs
- Betting on wisdom teeth
- Adventures in Travel comes to Rosemont next weekend
- Pentagon brass plan Iraq assessment
- Death Notice: ANDREW N. TZAKIS
- Online bill paying fulfills resolutions
- Death Notice: MILDRED P. STANLEY
- Deng sits down as Achilles’ flares up
- BOLD NAMES
- Image may not be everything, but it can help
- QUOTABLE
- UIC College of Pharmacy building severely damaged by fire
- Gordon answers own call
- Rentals add to woes of for-sale market
- Point, counter point
- LR2 opens more doors to Land Rover
- Death Notice: RAMON L. OLSON
- Lane more than a pretty face
- Death Notice: DAVID A. ROTHSTEIN M.D.
- Iowa pair flattens Michigan
- Man in custody in shooting of boy, 6
- Gender gap in subprime mess too
- Conan O’Brien is moving up — and not just a time slot
- Baying for snow
- Death Notice: AUSTACHIO RIDOLFI JR.
- UAL Corp. bucks downward trend
- Oscar competition is cut-throat
- Texas top dog indicted after pooch theft
- New year, new view
- Death Notice: NANCY M. GEDONS
- Death Notice: SANFORD SANES
- Paragraph of the week
- TRANSACTIONS
- Team behind ‘Cloverfield’ aims to re-energize monster genre
- Death Notice: GREGORY L. THORSE
- Death Notice: ANGELINE CEJA
- Death Notice: SAM DELLSY
- Before ‘Dream,’ King’s jail letter
- Women, Latino voters lift Clinton to win in Nevada
- Death Notice: ARLENE KAMIENSKI
- Death Notice: HENRY A. SCHUBERTH
- Whispers
- Change of Subject
- Gordon answers own call
- Death Notice: WARREN TOMASSENE
- Death Notice: MELVIN O. DAVIS
- ELSEWHERE
- Mortgage lenders refocusing on traditional home borrower
- Chicago gives weather the cold shoulder
- Death Notice: JOHANNE SAUCUVENAS
- Boy dies of injuries; new charges possible
- Winter’s coldest week arrives on schedule in Chicago
- Local sources offer answers to gardening questions
- Rumors of airline industry consolidation going full throttle
- Residential sales transactions
- Developer of Brach’s site gets TIF help
- Death Notice: WALTER A. GLENNON
- Midwest resorts excel in ski lessons
- Serb vote: Reformer vs. ultranationalist
- What to see in area public gardens
- NATIONAL NEWS RECAP: TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
- Death Notice: FRANCES B. SIEK
- Death Notice: PETRO BRATEJKO
- ‘Trading Spaces’ and TLC are on the same Paige
- Death Notice: ROSALIE LAKIN
- Death Notice: RYAN J. BROWN
- Death Notice: SUZANNE WILSON RUTHERFORD
- Hole causing a whole lot of headaches
- QBs still may be on the move
- Moderates flock to McCain in S.C.
- Carl E. Hundrieser: 1927 – 2008
- Pakistan: Arrests foiled attack on religious event
- Jeremy Sisto
- Kids aside, you can be a yummy mummy
- Death Notice: CLARA W. HEDSTROM
- RECALLS
- Death Notice: RUTH C. SAKANE
- Snow in forecast to extend Chicago cold for a spell
- Death Notice: THOMAS J. DES LAURIERS
- NAME DROPPING
- For sellers, now is the springtime of their intent
- It’s not much to look at, but Demons rally to win
- TRIPS, TIPS & DEALS
- Flames are good enough
- This bamboo’s shagalicious, baby
- Death Notice: EDNA MARIE GREENHOLT
- Don’t step on the sign
- Death Notice: MARGARET L. CONNELL
- Death Notice: FRED “BOB” STAIB
- Developer expands East Garfield Park site
- Gordon scores 33 points in win; Duhon hurt
- Hawks in full playoff mode
- Huckabee arrives back in Arkansas
- Baying for snow
- Alternate ZIPs
- Alternate ZIPs
- Mamet’s ‘November’ on Broadway hits a political funny bone all too easily
- Get ready for spring home sale
- Still larger than life, Coppola now thinks smaller
- Tradewinds Home 2008 uses low-tech ideas in yachtlike home
- Rentals add to woes of for-sale market
- Putting home in the spotlight
- A McCain endorsement in the ‘dead-heat’ of Florida
- The quiet before Chuck Norris
- Huckabee’s resetting his campaign clock
- At Dr. King’s church, Obama calls for empathy
- Marshall 84, Milwaukee Vincent 65
- Simeon 57, Webster Groves (Mo.) 41
- Marshall’s game halted after fight breaks out
- Von Steuben 52, Highland Park 47