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- Senator takes up Niles heart-valve case
- Blackhawks offense returns in nick of time
- Memorial crosses to return in DuPage
- Man gets 6 years in rip-off of elderly
- O What a beautiful snow globe
- Death Notice: FRANK SCHEIDT
- Police, FBI probe robbery of bank
- Death Notice: JAMES A. PRIMS
- Tough new ethics law faces bump
- Human noise drowns out song of whales
- Death Notice: LOLA M. DUDLEY
- THE TICKER
- Taxi driver is beaten, robbed
- Death Notice: BLANCHE E. GOETTLER
- Oprah hits the road
- Man charged with stabbing
- Disabled commuters getting Pace’s notice
- FISHING REPORT
- Hard times? Where?
- A continent the U.S. cannot ignore
- Cold truths about a possible hot streak
- Death Notice: ALBERT C. NAPOLITANO
- FASHION SENSE
- Teens show their happiness, unity and spirit
- HOMETOWN HITS
- It’s good to be bad
- Death Notice: ROBERT BRUCE SALMOND
- JOHN M. CHIEPPA: 1924 – 2008
- Right call? Wrong guy
- THE DIGIT
- With arctic spigot open, it feels like February
- Coach class
- Death Notice: PATRICK J. HACKETT
- Death Notice: HERBERT LeROY NELSON
- Death Notice: HAROLD L. LYLE JR.
- Death Notice: ELEANOR KASZUBOWSKI
- Death Notice: LORRAINE L. WRIGHT
- Sex-abuse suit filed against former priest
- Grammy nominations get a bit fresh
- Village angles for DeVry
- Breakaway Anglicans shape rival group
- Death Notice: GAIL S. MacCALLUM
- FRANCES E. SCHERER: 1912 – 2008
- Chicago Tribune loses 11 in newsroom
- DIGIT
- Death Notice: EASTRA A. ANDERSON
- Death Notice: FRANK C. GUENTHER
- MASHSTAR OF THE WEEK
- Death Notice: DONALD GORDON HOUSE
- Death Notice: ARTHUR W. MESSENGER
- Death Notice: SYLVIA E. MEYER
- Death Notice: JOHN CARLO GARRITANO
- Safe at home after long trip
- 22 crosses honoring fallen GIs to return
- WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
- best bets
- ‘Battlestar’ prequel, movie in works
- Wayne’s world
- Milwaukee bucks the Bulls
- WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
- Meters won’t rest on Sunday
- Death Notice: DANIEL L. DMYTRO
- As Fireman, McCartney offers one of better albums
- Death Notice: ZEFERINA F. CHRISTOFANELLI
- Obama mum on clemency for Ryan
- SHOUTOUTS
- AFRICA’S GUANTANAMO
- Spring fling
- Death Notice: MARY T. HEIDKAMP
- Victim’s family sues Wal-Mart in worker’s stampede death
- MASHTROLOGY
- Death Notice: JULIA C. MATLAK
- Death Notice: STEPHANIE V. SIKORSKI
- In the game
- Death Notice: REGINA TARNOWSKI
- COPS AND JOCKS
- VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
- In bad times, breaking up is even harder to do
- Death Notice: PETER CONSTANTINE DEDES
- CIA-linked kidnapping trial on hold
- Don’t call it a comeback!
- Death Notice: LOUIS ARUNNO
- 10 cool board games for cold winter gatherings
- SCHOLARSHIPS
- Death Notice: AMERICO DiNINO
- Death Notice: EDWARD H. TORCOM
- Mancow’s got beef
- Abbott videos add safety info
- Death Notice: BETTY JO ROEN
- Teen feels pressure — from aunt — to drink
- Death Notice: ERNEST H. NIEDERER
- BUZZ/PICKS
- Before they were famous …
- NATION & WORLD
- WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
- ‘Camelot’ coming to Ravinia
- Colbert bests Kanye, but Spears on top
- WATCH THIS
- Death Notice: PAULINE NORTH
- Vote now, debate later
- Death Notice: JAMES JACK LYNCH
- Senator takes up Niles heart-valve case
- A pointed response
- Death Notice: ELEANOR PARCHEM
- Death Notice: MARTIN J. HOZJAN
- Tough times put focus on tech ‘fixer-uppers’
- Death Notice: BERNARD A. STRATMOEN
- Illinois’ gambling problem
- Bank is robbed just after opening
- Death Notice: CHARLES H. HIRSH
- Suspect in Iowa killing captured
- U.S. demands Pakistan help with Mumbai attack probe
- Are you game?
- IN BRIEF
- Death Notice: JAMES A. NELLIS
- Man gets 6 years in rip-off of elderly
- Sara Lee to sell coffee-delivery unit
- SO WRONG
- Lending a helping paw
- On the download
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
- Death Notice: DIXIE LORENE SCHMIT
- Death Notice: KAZIMIERZ SIDOR
- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
- Death Notice: OLGA DELGAU
- Scarf has you in knots?
- Postal clerk hurt in robbery try
- Death Notice: MARTIN LEWIN
- GOOD WEEK/BAD WEEK
- ‘TWILIGHT’ ZONE
- CPS ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
- RING-A-LINGS
- ‘Hey, I like that tie’
- Death Notice: HARVEY F. SIEMSEN
- Death Notice: WILLIAM A. HENSON SR.
- Death Notice: Dorothy Theresa Samorajski
- Death Notice: ANNE V. SKOMSKI
- Adams steps in, steps up his game
- Eatery owner pleads to avert closing, but odds are grim
- The wedding bell blues
- Milquetoast a staple of Obama takeover diet
- TOON WARS!
- Rural Zimbabwe starving to death
- Death Notice: SHELDON LEE GANSCHAW
- Resentencing in drug case
- I love / I hate
- FIELD TRIP Get cooking with Charlie Trotter
- Death Notice: FRANCES MARTINKUS
- Death Notice: ROGER PAUL BUCHHOLZ
- Senior’s wallet stolen at store
- Death Notice: MARYANN CUNDARI
- Wheaton to cut 10 public works jobs
- Awkward encounters of the Facebook kind
- Nerd’s the word
- Death Notice: GUS S. KAPSALIS
- Dowel rod used as fight weapon
- Republic Windows closing doors
- TRANSACTIONS
- Dogfight tip? It could pay
- Drug-case arrest near cop station
- Death Notice: JAMES J. McGUIRE
- Spread the joy: 3 ways to make the season bright
- Death Notice: MANFRED WACKER
- Firm’s salvation during Prohibition: Churches
- ‘Shared vision’ prompts Swarbrick to keep Weis aboard
- HIT AND RUN
- Ex-Wachovia exec to lead Harris retail unit
- Dow up despite dismal reports
- Father to face trial in deaths
- Expansion of center planned
- Death Notice: LILLIAN DONDALSKI
- ODETTA: 1930-2008
- Death Notice: CELIA S. GOTTSCHLICH
- Death Notice: EDWARD A. THORSON
- Alsip man hit cabbie, cops say
- Death Notice: JOHN A. GRUEN
- watch dog
- Better ways to replace a senator
- High-velocity Valentine
- Death Notice: REGINA M. KOWALUK
- Death Notice: WILLIAM J. TORPY
- Bally files for bankruptcy again
- Death Notice: EDWARD J. SIMUNDIC
- Building a more diverse Cabinet
- Death Notice: BRIAN DOWNING
- Hamas lawsuit verdict upheld
- Moore adds to his game
- Clinton says wife ‘adored’ Senate seat
- Where to play
- Kid Rock serves up some anger
- Cats ride 20-2 burst
- Mumbai’s slain Jews honored
- FREEBIES
- Death Notice: ERNEST J. SCHMIDT
- Finding the funny in Prop. 8
- Teen hurt in leap leaves hospital
- MAUREEN’S PICK
- Del Negro wants more consistency from Thomas
- Suit disputing Obama status at high court
- Extreme weather leads to rise in greenhouse gases during ’07
- Charter school rejected in Waukegan
- Howry moves on to Giants
- 6 are charged in burglary spree
- CHICAGO
- Now and then music
- ‘Hey, I like that pin’
- NATION
- Death Notice: DENNIS C. HOEPNER
- Who’s getting sloppy now?
- Anger rising up over elevators
- Black teen expo
- JUST ASKING … QUESTION OF THE WEEK
- Death Notice: MARIA PULEO
- THURSDAY, DEC. 4
- Police: Woman thrown off bridge
- M-PASS news in the fast lane
- Death Notice: OLIVE RIFFNER
- Wednesday’s market movers
- UAW tells Congress to bank on givebacks
- Death Notice: GERALDINE MISH
- False cures for the recession
- Death Notice: WINOGENE DERRA
- Parking meter holidays over?
- Terry Bannon’s NFL pick
- Familiar look
- United to slash 1,200 jobs
- THE VELVET ROPE
- Bored no more
- Lost in translation
- Death Notice: LORRAINE ANN SCHAEFGES
- White House quiet on Ryan clemency
- ‘Cottage’ constructed of too much sugar
- Montag’s mom gives marriage 6 months
- Couch potatoes unite!
- The real ex list
- Teen stabs dad to defend mom
- Death Notice: RICHARD A. IRVING
- Death Notice: BERT BOYCE COOK
- Federline speaks out
- Terror Central
- Game on
- TRANSITION DIGEST
- Death Notice: HELEN M. MUNROE
- Death Notice: JOSEPH ADAM MARKOWSKI
- An ugly attack on Mormons
- Death Notice: SARAH P. CONWAY
- Love don’t cost a thing
- Man gets 8 years in fatal DUI crash
- CHATTER
- Foe upbeat in O’Hare fight
- Has popular music lost its meaning over time?
- Nobody’s close
- Death Notice: LAUREN M. DENGIS
- Charlie’s checklist
- Special treatment
- DRESS CODE What’s your personal style?
- Death Notice: MARY E. FLANNERY
- Suit hits funding for Uptown deal
- CTA struts hybrid stuff
- THE LIST
- Great pie at Great Lake
- NEWS BRIEFING Balfour arrested
- Board OKs Downers Grove budget
- Death Notice: MORITZ NEUMANN
- Death Notice: KAY HAUPT
- Police: Boy took photos in bathroom
- Death Notice: Theresia Neugebauer-Ruppel
- Something looks familiar here
- Gifts for frugal times
- Death Notice: FLORENCE D. HINE
- Death Notice: EDWARD PLOCINSKI
- WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
- WORLD
- Fusion done right at charming Mexique
- Economy keeps couples together
- Death Notice: DONNA M. LIETZ
- Choco-challengers square off over sweets
- 2 DO
- Man admits shooting at Metra trains
- Pakistan seethes as it sees U.S. on India’s side
- Hey, Detroit: There’s a right way to jet set
- French firm ups ante for Constellation
- To beard or not to beard?
- No bail in Hudson case
- Death Notice: LORRAINE ENGELMAN
- Raptors’ 8-9 start costs Mitchell job
- Federline says he still cares
- Senator takes up Niles heart-valve case
- 2 men may be tied to more burglaries
- Aye, aye caption
- Walgreens leads field in retail medicine
- Head-spinner of a holiday toy
- Theft victims chase suspect
- STANLEY A. JOHNSON: 1939 – 2008
- Reward program targets dogfighting
- ALMANAC
- $9.8 million settlement approved by Cook board
- Offense returns in nick of time
- Smart attack
- Death Notice: DALE HARMS
- Obama targets mortgages
- Arts, crafts together in shows at the Mart
- Practically perfect
- Sweet music to your ears
- ASK TOM WHY
- Acting casual
- Crossover artist
- State unveils evidence in Hudson case
- Fed: Weak economy across U.S.
- Rolling Meadows trims funding to cop center
- Death Notice: JOHN C. BASILETTI
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- (Social networking approved ) (Recent study finds AIM, Facebook, MySpace are not a waste of teens’ time )
- Flower power
- It’s goodbye to cutest Web stars ever
- CHECK OUT
- WATCH IT CELEBRATE IT MAKE IT
- Desperately seeking …
- CTA rolls out new fleet of less-polluting buses
- Death Notice: BETTY J. WACHHOLDER
- How to fix a broken lake
- Death Notice: LORRAINE A. MACK
- Public League roundup
- Put it to the test
- Random dilemma
- Death Notice: HENRIETTA B. JOHNSON
- Death Notice: JOHN H. SUTTON
- Bulls topped by Bucks’ bench
- $9.8M settlement OKd by Cook board
- Sex-abuse suit filed against former priest
- Teen shot dead on South Side
- Renditions fuel anger against U.S.
- Prosecutors unveil circumstantial evidence against William Balfour in Jennifer Hudson case
- State: 2000-01 license plates could be faulty
- R. Kelly’s nephew indicted in shooting
- More staff cuts at Edward Hospital
- 3 hurt in head-on crash near Gilberts
- Man accused of giving STD to girl indicted
- AT&T to cut 12,000 jobs
- Man, 19, killed on West Side
- Famous beards and those behind them
- Map: Chicago’s Holiday Lights
- 4 children hit by car on Far South Side
- Illinois egg donor agencies offer guarantee
- Health nuts: Treats and tricks for healing
- Seniors: Tools for staying fit
- Office gifts that are simply boss
- City Council approves parking meter deal
- Chicago teen arrested in Oak Park robbery
- Durbin stands by free Ryan request
- Suburb expects thousands to flock to shrine
- Hazmat situation at suburban high school
- Teen charged in Maywood slaying
- Duncan in D.C. ‘strictly’ for Chicago business
- Security scare at New Delhi airport
- Elgin approves controversial subdivision
- Man charged in 2 Oak Park home invasions
- North Side CTA about to return to normal
- Guilty verdict in beheading of religious statues
- Doctor gets probation in Rx drug case
- Feds OK $3.2B to Ill. for hospital assessment
- Judge: Case against Harvey cop can go forward
- City spent about $148K on snow storm effort
- Boeing faces another delay on the 787
- Man rescued from Lockport fire
- Cops seek link in North Shore holdups
- Fusion done right at charming Mexique
- Suburb arrests Chicago cop
- 2 tried to sell cocaine, cops say
- Police union to pay for Burge defense
- Birkett joins foes of Ryan clemency
- Illinois schools see enrollment dip
- Dolton Mayor Shaw honored at funeral
- Man slain after high school basketball game
- Elfstrom Stadium to offer luxury suites
- Obama campaign raised nearly $1B
- Thursday’s girls basketball roundup: Bolingbrook tops Joliet