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- Thursday’s girls volleyball roundup: Regional results
- Activists face excommunication over women in priesthood
- Prep scoreboard
- Bridgeport bridges past with present
- Does your child’s school rank in Illinois’ Top 50?
- QUESTION OF THE DAY
- Daley hangs out the welcome sign
- Make a pledge to call the cops
- Death Notice: LORRAINE E. LEWIS
- State’s ultimate insider indicted
- MISCONDUCT ALLEGED
- Illinois 176 crash injures 2 drivers
- Homeless plan flops
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Suicide bomber kills 5 in Kabul
- Death Notice: CLARENCE CHRISTIAN
- A new age for colonial club
- Death Notice: ADELAIDE KRAMMEN
- Feds say woman exploited child
- Bicycle rider, CTA bus collide
- ANTHONY F. PORTINCASO: 1941 – 2008
- Death Notice: DONNA M. RINGSTAD
- Death Notice: RICHMOND F. BANCROFT
- Woman accused of kicking at cops
- Woman reports ring stolen off hand
- ‘They’re just getting off the ground’
- Rent at your own risk
- For McCain, all Ohio, all the time
- Death Notice: DOROTHY F. CHILDERS
- WATCH DOG
- Shows you can’t miss
- State’s ultimate insider indicted
- $500,000 bail in home invasion
- Death Notice: VICTOR DEUTSCHER
- Economy in contraction mode
- ‘Mad Men’ creator looks forward to a break
- Shady people are all tricks, no treats
- At this bakery, interns’ hope rises along with the bread
- Death Notice: GEORGE J. ARNOLD
- King Khan, BBQ friends who fight
- Death Notice: LUCILLE M. SCHMITT
- Death Notice: ELEANOR CAPA
- Altered photos, videos take on haunting life
- Death Notice: JOHN MORAN
- ‘Ballast’ creator forecasts end of theatrical indies
- Wild West meets Andy Warhol in this villa
- NCAA reins in Midnight Madness
- Once upon a politician …
- RANDOM DILEMMA
- Walgreens open to change
- Rape suspect may be responsible for 6 other assaults
- Death Notice: MANUEL M. CRUZ
- Death Notice: NICHOLAS SAVONE
- FACEBOOK FIVE
- ‘Kreep’ing along, poetically
- Death Notice: GIOVANNI BERARDI
- CHRIS JONES RECOMMENDS
- Elizabeth Banks
- BCS title countdown starts
- Man stiffed limo driver, cops say
- Notre Dame defender Smith thriving on football’s edge
- Actress looks like Oscar contender
- Death Notice: MARY T. JUNG
- Versteeg is no small contributor
- Holiday shop at Del Webb event
- Nostalgia cuts both ways in ‘Jew Grows in Brooklyn’
- Stores try creative ways to drive up holiday sales
- It’s so simple to look like Paltrow
- 8 years later, association wants awning removed
- Gorging appears over for boss hog Cellini
- Man held in sexual assaults years apart
- MAIN EVENT
- Death Notice: JOSEPHINE EJZAK
- Picking prime community
- Fire gets nothing–and happy with it
- Beware firms that promise clean sweep of credit woes
- Terry Bannon’s NFL picks
- The mathematics of theater candy
- NATION
- NOW PLAYING
- On the trail
- Kane County Republicans face challenges
- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
- ROBERT FURMAN: 1915 – 2008
- ALMANAC
- Music and Games
- Selling gross-outs by the gross
- QUOTE
- Comdisco collects and corrects
- Death Notice: JOAN L. PAVEZA
- ‘No quick fix’ for Motorola cell unit
- Cops cite man in hydrant wreck
- MAIN EVENT
- FRESH EPISODES
- Death Notice: JESSICA FRANCIS WALLACE
- Airhart model ready for debut
- Tragic tale of ‘Margaret Garner’ still strikes chord
- DUI charge filed in tollway crash
- Investigators probe restaurant blast
- The kids/no-kids showdown
- A small, true slice of Delta life, strife
- Death Notice: CAROL DRUMMOND
- DON BAUM: 1922 – 2008
- Don’t let late payments become a foreclosure
- Purrfect
- Sox’s infield set to get a new look
- WATCH THIS
- Dispute leads to battery arrest
- Lab School owes fees, group says
- Bridgeport bridges past with present
- Pulte decorator to conduct staging seminar
- Death Notice: ELMER PROUDIAN
- Get under the impressive Umbrella Music Festival
- Where to celebrate–or commiserate
- Cyrus ready for wheels
- Landlord’s pesticides leave tenants in a fog
- All-star reunion of Stax ‘family’
- 3 questions for Matt Focht
- Man is charged in home invasion
- Historic race downplayed
- Blagojevich mum on possible successors to Obama
- Plumbing repair primer
- Did somebody call for a doctor?
- Bridging past, present
- Death Notice: CARMELLA LaBARBERA
- McMahon dealt snub?
- Shootout in the cards in St. Louis; former Jet should fly
- Party ticket
- Hudson family plans services
- Death Notice: IRENE I. ROWLEN
- So who–or what–pulled the plug on ‘Forbidden Broadway’?
- Beatle mania?
- Death Notice: MORRIE M. GROSSMAN
- Finding an area with appreciation potential
- Death Notice: BERNICE GARCARZ
- Ding-dong, the witch isn’t dead
- THURSDAY’S RESULTS
- CPS paddling investigation spurs ouster
- Death Notice: JOSEPHINE R. DONOFRIO
- THE VELVET ROPE
- JEAN S. MELTZER: 1925-2008
- HOMETOWN HITS
- Spooked shelters put cats on hold during Halloween
- Twist of fate
- Tollway projects to wrap up in ’09
- Death Notice: FRANCIS M. DILSAVER
- Gay film fest takes a mostly American approach
- Death Notice: JANE BLAKLEY
- Indicting Illinois. Again
- Court settles family’s $800,000 rift
- Rose Bowl run just an Illini memory
- Woman hears call to priesthood
- Death Notice: EDWARD OTTO TOMASEK
- YOUR SALES TAX CALENDAR
- Click on…
- Knotty but nice flooring
- Can’t get to the gym? Rake in some exercise
- 8 years later, awning must be removed
- Thursday’s market movers
- Death Notice: GEORGE KOWALCHUK
- What to do if CFL bulb breaks
- Death Notice: EUGENE A. TODD
- MLS honors could come Fire’s way
- Illinois’ ‘No Child’ testing fallout
- Prep football on main stage
- ‘Seeker’ brings fantasy to lifecurt wagner
- The godfather of modern politics
- ASK TOM WHY
- Man, 22, charged in hammer attack
- Shorewood Glen to host holiday shopping event
- Death Notice: THOMAS STANLEY TYSZKA, M.D.
- John the Careless
- Energizer dad Brad
- THE TICKER
- Scary good costumes
- Smith’s ballot all about Obama
- Classical Corner
- Death Notice: HENRY JOHNSON
- Distinctive lives up to name
- CME rival takes lead in swaps race
- Teen left at Neb. hospital is 24th abandoned under safe-haven law
- Cornerstone at new spot?
- Earth-friendly calendar has stark message
- Shadows animate horror shorts
- MUSIC
- Pete and Ashlee ready to rock
- FIGURES
- Ready to ‘Rocknrolla’?
- Death Notice: ROBERT S. VAN KEPPEL
- WHO’S UP, WHO’S DOWN
- Stax redux
- Florida dog booked on flight home
- Taking the air out of rising deflation fears
- FRIDAY, OCT. 31
- Stranger to these parts draws birders, its demise
- FAST PAISED
- Wii helps Nintendo buck economic trend
- Death Notice: RANDALL R. INDA
- Death Notice: LEONORE S. GORDON
- CHICAGO
- 14-year-old girl missing 12 days
- You say you want a digital revolution?
- Culture wars spill onto state ballots
- WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: OCT. 24-26
- OPENINGS THIS WEEK
- Death Notice: CLARA J. MANNA
- No black cats on Halloween
- NOTED
- SHORTSTOPS
- Have you ever gone to home or garden shows?
- American Express to cut 7,000 jobs
- Baghdad commuter rail skirts checkpoints
- TRANSACTIONS
- Will County hopefuls argue growth
- Racetrack in Cicero to be mall
- ESPN is prep for next day’s big game
- Come in from the cold
- Sakamoto’s High 5
- $10,000 reward in Alsip slaying
- Mortgage brokers ditching day jobs
- Andras Schiff gives Beethoven that lived-in sound
- Death Notice: ALICE G. OLIVERO
- An inspirational fight to the finish
- 2 DO
- Dog’s ‘tude is all about you
- Death Notice: RICHARD L. KOPP
- Death Notice: MARY E. KNIPPEN
- Death Notice: ESTHER EDELMANN
- ‘Margaret Garner’ still strikes a powerful chord
- Family Fun
- Teens charged with faking attack
- Allergy death is ruled homicide
- Come on down!!
- Insurance companies charge women more
- Hostage drama plays out at Piven
- Death Notice: MERCEDES BIRCH
- Copter evidence suggests pilot error
- For Families
- The week in live music
- Officer shoots knife-wielding man
- Courteney on prowl
- Legislative races again a test of GOP hold in west suburbs
- Halloween fun
- Windy City whirlwind?
- Those darn polls
- The many faces of Lily Tomlin
- Remember when …
- Private memorial service
- Thomas’ rough task: Fly blind vs. Garnett
- Sacked again
- Blagojevich authorizes 26 pardons
- It’s a dirty job
- Death Notice: ELAINE GOSSWILLER
- The witching hour has come–witch you gonna do?
- Weekend planner
- NATION & WORLD BRIEFS
- Sports fun
- Death Notice: EFFIE L. MARROS
- McCain campaign echoing Dole’s
- THURSDAY’S RESULTS
- Empty kegs reported stolen
- Exxon Mobil beats own profit record
- Basement reeks after remodeling
- Trick or treat: Warmest Halloween since 2000
- Death Notice: DONALD R. DEBELLO
- In Statehouse, Obama quietly made own way
- Ticket Booth
- Costume change
- Return trip in Panthers’ plans
- Whole lotta nothin’
- Celtics’ Doc helps out an old friend
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
- Brenly staying put as Brewers pick Macha
- Death Notice: CARL A. ANSTETT
- NEW TO DVD
- Puppetry magic in ‘Cabaret’ comes with some strings
- The playoffs by the numbers
- Abbott sues Medtronic over stents
- Saturday’s top games
- Tricked out
- With Head on shelf, Matt Focht moves on with a new project
- Take back Halloween
- Film’s crime is waste of its star
- BOLD NAMES
- ESTELLE REINER: 1914 – 2008
- Death Notice: MARION E. SCHWALBACH
- Put together a home-safety kit with everyday items
- Sex in ‘Red Angel’ is anything but casual; faceless ‘Beauty’
- Death Notice: DOROTHY E. KROLL
- Death Notice: PETER KOLINSKI
- Norwood offering $7,500 credit
- Looking for answers to flatlining scores
- Witten a game-time decision with broken rib
- Truth in titling
- Got cash? Poker glory could await
- Death Notice: DOROTHY LUCILE HRADEK
- ‘Ghost Hunters Live’
- Seeing the hand of God in friendship
- What to do if CFL bulb breaks
- Freaky Friday
- A well-worn tie
- Art guide
- Death Notice: STEVO JAJIC
- Briggs: Blaming Babich unfair
- Aide: Daley blank on letter
- IN BRIEF
- WORLD
- Art
- Film’s star and script line up in ‘Loved’
- Chicago haunts
- Sweet treat or a scourge on mankind?
- Man is beaten near his home
- CAMPAIGN DIGEST
- Death Notice: NORBERTA RYCZEWICZ
- Series finale damp shame, so baseball must respond
- No problems before copter crash
- ‘No Child’ testing fallout
- Shortened workday urged for election day
- Reasons behind flat high school scores
- Bridgeport bridges past with present
- Tours find ghostly host in downtown Orlando
- Plumbing repair primer
- Knotty but nice flooring
- Shootout in the cards in St. Louis; former Jet should fly
- Finding an area with appreciation potential
- At this bakery, interns’ hope rises along with the bread
- Cop union challenges Weis on Obama
- Motorcyclist killed near I-57 on-ramp
- Suburban man gets 7 years for stealing copper wire
- Gary man gets 20 years in violent carjacking
- Vallas returns; is he laying groundwork for run?
- Fake weapons draw police to Michigan Ave. bus
- Blaze displaces 4 families in Country Club Hills
- 2 charged in ram-and-grab robbery
- Employers not heeding call to close early for Obama rally
- Suspect in custody in Elgin shooting
- Man slain in alley near South Side home
- Nearly half a million early votes in Chicago, Cook County
- Bail denied for parolee charged in slaying of restaurant manager
- Ex-Niles mayor pleads guilty in kickback scheme
- City tries to cool down Obama rally fever
- Athletes of the Week, 10-28-08
- Smell of smoke spooks Loop building occupants
- Eww, gross! (But will it make you sick?)
- Man accused of using Internet to solicit sex from minor
- Attic house fire in Bensenville does $150,000 in damage
- Chicago businesses balk at trash can fee
- Gun used in Hudson murders confirmed; public memorial set for Sunday
- Duck hunters put Carpentersville school on alert
- 2 shot in Edgewater
- ‘Suspicious’ death in Elk Grove Village
- Studs Terkel dies
- Election Day rally parking and transportation set
- Studs Terkel dies
- Life sentence in slaying of city employee
- If you dare …
- One dead, two injured in car wreck in Huntley
- Masked man tried to abduct boys, cops say
- Prep scoreboard
- Bail delayed in deadly fish toxin case
- Obama stumps ‘close to home’
- Police involved in shooting on South Side