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2008 > December > 24
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South Elgin bank heist may be robber’s 2nd
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Tuesday’s boys basketball: Geneva goes on free throw binge
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Tuesday’s girls basketball roundup: No. 4 Montini 48, No. 16 Lake Zurich 36
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Longtime Chicago rabbi dies
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Convincing win
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THE TICKER
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Death Notice: PENNY MARIE CARLSON
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‘A Christmas Story’
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Death Notice: DOROTHY L. LOEFFLER
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WATCH THIS
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Mixing meds, risking health
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Death Notice: SHEILA ELKIN
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Top 10 albums of 2008
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Yes, the name is Freeze, thank you
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Christmas Day dining
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Death Notice: ADELINE L. PERREN
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Death Notice: RONALD J. TAGLIERE
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Death Notice: DR. RAYMOND TIM DESLER
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Death Notice: MARSHA C. OATES
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3rd man held in eatery shooting
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Death Notice: ANTOINETTE SCALA
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Navy looks at paring Boeing project
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Obama report on contacts with Gov. Blagojevich
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Home sales, prices drop further
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Death Notice: JAMES E. O’DAY
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Dad guilty of child endangerment
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Bank robber armed and fashionable
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Death Notice: MARY J. DINOLFO
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Not dwelling on help
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Holidaze
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Leading question
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Death Notice: LEWIS HENRY CRANE
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Death Notice: MARTIN JAMES CHRISTENSEN
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Cruise’s Nazi near-miss
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Shoppers pull an all-nighter
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JANE BELON SHAW: 1931-2008
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Death Notice: EDWARD E. NEUMAN II
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BARS & CLUBS
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Chicago hits 501 homicides
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Readers offer more ways to replace traditional gifts with support for charities
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WHAT’S THE DEAL? Super tweet
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THE VELVET ROPE
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Bush’s glimpse at our discontent
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Death Notice: JANE ANN MARGOLIS
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Shooting stars
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Knowing what matters on this special night
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REV. ROBERT J. MARSHALL: 1918-2008
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Write a song for G-Rod
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NHL monitoring faltering Coyotes
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Death Notice: CATERINA URSO CALE
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Greetings from the celeb world
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The total package
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For NIU, no home cooking
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Death Notice: FLORENCE A. southard
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Death Notice: CHARLOTTE C. GRAZIANO
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Tuesday’s market movers
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Kane, Toews surging stars
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Hour by awful hour, a holiday is derailed
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‘Salty’ to get his gravestone
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Death Notice: SYBIL J. ANDERSON
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ASK TOM WHY
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Tough jobs, Part II
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Death Notice: JON H. GROVES
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Frogs foil quest for perfection
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Death Notice: MILDRED F. CAHN
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Death Notice: BARBARA Z. SURMACZYNSKI
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Brutal plunge, miraculous landing
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Death Notice: WILLIAM THOMAS
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Death Notice: JOHN E. DAMM
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Death Notice: EDWARD A. MOORE JR.
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Family planted a holiday tradition
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Illinois transactions off nearly 34%
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A. CARL KOTCHIAN: 1914-2008
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Another blast from Jack Frost
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The generals relent
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Crazy for Candace
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ALMANAC
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CRUISE VS. PITT
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Peterson glad for special teammates
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Death Notice: JOSEPH SAMUEL WEXLER
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Death Notice: LEON R. SCHAUL
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GERALDINE MCCULLOUGH: 1917-2008
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Cops embrace tradition of helping needy kids
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It’s not a health-care crisis; it’s a payment problem
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Mother charged in fire deaths
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MUSIC
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HIT AND RUN
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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
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Death Notice: CARLO DiLAURO
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Prosecutor won’t aid impeachment panel
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Holidays have ritualistic hold beyond flights and family
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By air and by car, race for home is on
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Impeachment probe limited
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Strip search
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Death Notice: CHESTER S. WALIGORSKI
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These elves care for police families
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fast paised
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Lawyer charged with fraud
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Death Notice: ANNE FOLAN
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Expecting fortunes to improve
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More bad news produces 5th straight Wall St. drop
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Is there life after ‘Idol’?
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watch dog
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Fox takes a gamble on new time slot for ‘Feresten’
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Death Notice: ELIZABETH BRACHMAN
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The greatest gift that money can’t buy
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Chicago
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Food fighters
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WOMAN ATHLETE OF YEAR
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NATION/WORLD
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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS
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Death Notice: IOLANDA LANCIONI
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Death Notice: MARCELLA GLOSA
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Wal-Mart settles suits in work-time dispute
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Bears’ best move: Cook up pressure
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Warm-and-fuzzy weather
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Death Notice: ROBERT G. O’KANE
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Death Notice: IRA M. BLITZSTEN
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Trader Vic’s vs. Trader Joe’s: A tiki tussle!
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Abandoned baby OK in hospital
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Mokena switches rail stand
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CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 24
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Warning-label law targets lead in toys
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Banking on holiday traditions
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Obama’s farewell to grandmother
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Lincoln Bible set for inaugural
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Death Notice: BARBARA C. VANNERSON
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All aboard! Your train will leave in … 24 hours?
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QUESTION OF THE DAY
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Surprise go-to guy helps Detroit cruise
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Death Notice: MARIE WOLANDE
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Miami of Ohio tabs Irish aide Haywood
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Death Notice: JAMES J. PERK
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Trucker fined for illegal dumping
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Recession hits new low
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Patient accused of exposing self
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DePaul goes bust in Vegas
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Death Notice: Sadie Belle Chisholm-Stringer
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Death Notice: ANTHONY CASANOVA
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Death Notice: VIRGINIA P. GRANT
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Most telling off-field moment
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Death Notice: JUDY ROSSET KAUFMAN
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Ray Charles symposium is planned for March
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Metromix’s top NYE shows
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FDA objects to Diet Coke Plus claims
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Falling for those puppy-dog eyes, tales is very hard to resist
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IN BRIEF
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Chicago firm finalist for Eisenhower memorial
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No pork in stimulus plan, Biden says
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Desperately seeking …
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Death Notice: LILLIAN M. GETKE
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Trapped at Union Station
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Death Notice: MARY EHRENFRIED
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Driver survives 40-foot fall
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Tough jobs, Part I
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Random Acts of Greatness
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Death Notice: AIDA SOSA
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The ‘ought’ decade
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Death Notice: ANN Z. JANUS
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India tamps down fears of war
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Death Notice: LORRAINE G. ZAREMBA
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2 do
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‘Twas the plight before Christmas
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Death Notice: MARGARET GIANNI
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Death Notice: HELEN BERAN
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Icy mix leads to cold blast, then weekend thaw
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Death Notice: MARCIA FAYE MASLOV
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dr. fantasy
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Man, 60, killed in apartment fire
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HOW helping homeless find way
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Death Notice: MARY ANN WATTERS
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Health sector feeling pain
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Agency certifies CME plan to clear credit default swaps
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Photographer reflects on his ‘Godfather’ images
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Chicago records year’s 500th homicide
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Soph grows into his role
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IN BRIEF
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Fey-TASTIC!
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Death Notice: FRED NORMAN COULTER
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Hotel occupancy rates off sharply
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Death Notice: GREGORY WOODWARD CRAMER
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Internal review clears staffers
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Water main break turns streets into rivers
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Death Notice: LUCILLE V. URKOVICH
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Naughty, nice: That’s the CTA
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Storm rips through region
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Finding cure for boredom
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Shirtless Obama heats up the Net
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best bets
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Death Notice: MARILYN ZAKS
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WHOVILLE
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Palm Beach jewels land on Gold Coast
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Bulls fall to Pistons
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Man killed trying to flee robbers
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Chicago firm sues Winfrey’s company
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1 dead in West Side fire
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Homeowner won’t be charged in shooting
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Canadian National Railway rail deal approved
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6 hurt in Hoffman Estates wreck
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Police release picture of abandoned baby
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Woman dies in Bishop Ford crash
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Suburban man dies of CO poisoning
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Readers rally around father facing hard times
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Girl’s death ruled homicide
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Hinsdale police warn of Christmas grinch
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Last-minute shoppers clog stores
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Suit: Sex harassment part of Chicago filming
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Jet slips off taxiway at O’Hare
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More snow and bitter cold in forecast
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VFW hall roof collapses
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Al Capone’s house to go on the market
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Jet lands safely after emergency response
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Mexican immigrants moving back home amid sour economy