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2008 > December > 5
- Thursday’s boys basketball roundup: Hillcrest beats Evergreen Park
- Thursday’s boys basketball roundup: Hillcrest beats Evergreen Park
- Prep scoreboard
- Palos Park: A village that prizes small-town charm
- No reason not to get out for some jazz this weekend
- Neighbors like freebie vacation home
- Boss planned hit, feds say
- Death Notice: KAY HAUPT
- WEEKEND BOX OFFICE NOV. 29-30
- HIT AND RUN
- Boy, 16, charged in fatal shooting
- It’s the holidays, and the holidays mean ‘The Nutcracker.’
- Williamses return to practice–for now
- FAST PAISED
- Hamming it up
- My mortgage is paid off, now what?
- Death Notice: SOPHIE T. GRACA
- The week in live music
- Shows you can’t miss
- FACEBOOK FIVES
- Death Notice: MILDRED E. JANOWSKI
- ‘Greatest Holiday Moments: TV & Film Countdown’
- Lady of Guadalupe shrine girds for rush
- ‘Dream’ guys and a girl
- Death Notice: IRENE E. COLLINS
- Death Notice: BERTHA JORGE
- Prompted by Redford, screenwriter was born
- A life in politics remembered
- Oliver Selfridge: 1926-2008
- Death Notice: LORNA C. LARSON
- Illini writing a new script
- Death Notice: JOANNE K. TIMMS
- THE DIGIT
- FRESH EPISODES
- Parking dispute leads to charge
- For Johnny B., fun is on TV
- IN BRIEF
- TOURS
- YOUR SALES TAX CALENDAR
- THURSDAY’S RESULTS
- Happiness loves company, scientists say
- Death Notice: IDA MARKUS
- Lee Umbles: 1932-2008
- How true is ‘Zoo’?
- OPENING THIS WEEK
- Death Notice: TERRY W. EKBERG
- A show after shopping or to impress your guests? Read on
- Death Notice: HERBERT H. BEVAN
- Death Notice: ANNE B. CAHILL
- Death Notice: LUCY AMFT
- Death Notice: WILLIAM ROTMAN
- RED HOT
- Sentinel trustee sues Citadel, Goldman Sachs
- Feds taped Blagojevich
- Dark and stormy night for Mahoney
- MUSIC
- Connick Jr. comin’ to town
- Put the freeze on those wintry drafts
- Get the word out to residents the right way
- Death Notice: MARY MURPHY
- The urgent music of Volcano!
- Death Notice: JOHN MICHAEL GLYMAN
- Helping immigrants in Uptown
- Man is found fatally shot
- ‘Tis the season
- Want to be a top male model?
- A holiday movie blowout!
- $275,000 bail in home invasions
- Otto Spoerri: 1933-2008
- Buzzworthy
- Death Notice: DIANA TOOSLEY
- Story floats along, revealing unusual vistas
- Death Notice: ELEANORA T. BIRD
- Further delay forecast for Dreamliner
- THURSDAY’S RESULTS
- FAMILY FUN
- Parking meter deal OKd; rates going up
- Twitter’s take
- Give it up, already
- Connick Jr. is comin’ to town
- Incentives on Kipling condos
- COPS AND JOCKS
- Death Notice: LaVERNE A. BEDNARZ
- Britney’s No. 1
- 20,000 layoffs adding to toll
- Death Notice: LUCILLE C. VASSER
- Feds taped Blagojevich
- Better to sweat small stuff when big stuff overwhelms
- FRIDAY, DEC. 5
- Death Notice: VLASTA R. SCHLEHOFER
- Chemical vapor empties school
- Barbie makes Bratz bow out
- QUOTED NOTED DEMOTED
- Death Notice: LAUREN M. DENGIS
- MUSIC
- Mom says girl, 6, was told to walk home from school
- Death Notice: MARY A. PINNEY
- Death Notice: LEONARD RUBENSTEIN
- Feel the urgency of Volcano!
- Family honored in Aurora for 150 years of service
- Pulte to host holiday party in Lockport
- $200,000 in steel taken from trailer
- Begging for billions: Facts and fictions as auto bailout unfolds
- Terry Bannon’s NFL picks
- ‘Scientology’ is a brilliant cult hit
- Seeing is not believing
- Youth accused in attack on woman
- What home chore have you been postponing?
- Bright holiday
- Race riot play gets the white actors it sought
- ‘Rome’ star eager for punishing role
- Death Notice: DONALD K. JOHNSON
- Time lapse in catching heat
- Brotherly love on hiatus Sunday
- QUOTE
- White-hot and cool
- Builders reinventing roles out of necessity
- Tracking ‘brilliance’
- Death Notice: STEVEN E. BURKHOLDER
- Death Notice: MACKENZIE ANNABELLA ROSALES
- TRANSACTIONS
- JOHN VON RHEIN RECOMMENDS
- Death Notice: KATHERINE HANLEY
- Death Notice: OLIVE RIFFNER
- Now Playing
- Sox going young but not rebuilding
- Practice of patience leads to depth in subtle paintings
- Lexington Park buyer looks forward to move-in
- Campaign nets nearly $1 billion
- Death Notice: JOHN C. PRICE JR.
- Death Notice: JAMES H. OLSEN
- THURSDAY’S RESULTS
- DIGIT
- SACKED AGAIN
- Death Notice: ROSS P. DOYLE
- Sayonara, Shiba Inus
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
- Death Notice: HERMAN A. ZEIDLER
- CTA track project finishing up soon on North Side
- Foreclosure crisis has Durbin on bailout trail
- Death Notice: GEORGE JOSEFEK
- Gun sales soar since election
- Is Lil Wayne for real with this guitar hero business?
- Death Notice: LORRAINE L. WRIGHT
- Home library gives a room character
- Del Negro seeks remedy for ‘unpredictable’ team
- ALMANAC
- Death Notice: GUS S. KAPSALIS
- Cops: 2 stole car from hospital lot
- Then and now
- 2 DO
- 18-year-old man is shot to death
- Dear Santa,
- QUESTION OF THE DAY
- Ogunleye hopes injury concern doesn’t linger
- Death Notice: LEE PETER PEUGH
- ‘Potato principle’ fuels 30-cent I-PASS fight
- Death Notice: ROSALIE V. ZABOR
- Doctor admits illegal drug sales
- Court worker reports theft
- Deadly door-busters
- Driver accused of 11 offenses
- A village that prizes small-town charm
- 2 sought in Ruffalo shooting
- Man, 60, injured in house fire
- Tracks in snow lead to suspect
- No place like poor house to watch ‘The Bowery Boys’
- Don’t forgive that way!
- The starting 5
- Birkett joins foes of Ryan clemency
- Insurers offer centralization
- CHICAGO
- Keep the season on its toes
- Nuclear ‘football’ carries global arms woes
- Death Notice: JEAN-CLAUDE FRANCIS NOLAN
- Death Notice: CATHERINE M. BAUMGARTNER
- Chicago history told in ‘Cadillac Records’
- Guitar god at work
- So many shows …
- Death Notice: ARTHUR J. LOTT
- CPS alumni rock! And rap and croon
- After 60 years, NATO struggles to reinvent mission
- Russians fear financial gain has vanished
- Name the most un-Christmasy movie you know
- Campaign rhetoric meets reality of Iraq
- Thursday’s market movers
- Death Notice: HELEN M. MUNROE
- Death Notice: CHARLES WEIS SR.
- Mahoney plays the hand he’s dealt in ‘Seafarer’
- Not enough
- Death Notice: GUS LAMBESIS
- Afghans fight a killer: Birth
- Drum group brings West African tradition alive
- Chicago’s got a big role in new series
- Hubbard Street spices up winter with comedy, twists
- Death Notice: CATHY A. HELGESEN
- Q-Tip exulting in his sound returning to radio
- Honda in driver’s seat as Detroit 3 skid
- High hopes sacked
- CHRIS JONES RECOMMENDS
- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
- Palos Park: A village that prizes small-town charm
- From unknown to top of charts
- 4 kids injured when hit by car
- Indian airports on high alert
- Elgin OKs subdivision pitch for golf course
- The versatile Mr. Wright
- Has Fido been naughty or nice?
- Discounts may prove no bargain to retailers
- Custom models are under way at Oak Creek
- Get the word out to residents the right way
- Holiday
- Death Notice: MARY K. DRYJANSKI
- CPS sets up local iTunes playlist
- Super whammy
- Knut turns 2, and zoo may soon be too small
- Death Notice: LINDA S. SIMACK
- MASCOT MANIA
- MUSIC
- THE TICKER
- JOHN VON RHEIN RECOMMENDS
- William Blair reduces its workforce
- Tips, tricks for preparing and staining a wood floor
- Bell, Boyd & Lloyd nears merger deal
- FOR FAMILIES
- Desperately seeking …
- Death Notice: BETTY LOU HAWKINS
- DuPage seeks to tap lake water
- Suit over Spire easement is dropped
- Going coast-to-coast
- NATION & WORLD BRIEFS
- Rickman excels, but not movie
- Incentives on Kipling condos
- Illinois schools see slight enrollment dip
- Jobs report angst torpedoes stocks
- 2 tried to sell cocaine, cops say
- Joseph Adam Markowski: 1906-2008
- Makes you pause
- ‘Robot Chicken’ feels the force
- Corrupt setting yields a classic
- HOMETOWN HITS
- Death Notice: LORETTA A. LUDDEN
- Death Notice: EDWARD PLOCINSKI
- 2 men robbed in residential area
- Jackson’s not retiring from tribute
- ASK TOM WHY
- Death Notice: JOAN S. SEBELIK
- Egg-donor agencies cooperate to aid clients
- Death Notice: ISABEL K. GOSS
- Sending gifts? You better hurry
- WATCH THIS
- IN BRIEF
- COOKING
- Wildcats closing gap on powerful Tar Heels
- Full throttle on wrong track
- Death Notice: JOHN H. SUTTON
- ND transfer makes up for 2 lost years
- WEAR WOLVES
- Chicago cop in further trouble
- Meter madness
- Finding new things in the ancient taiko tradition
- ALAN G. ARTNER RECOMMENDS
- Woman, 81, hurt in freak accident
- Fine line for U.S. after India strike
- FBI raids governor backer’s firms
- NATION/WORLD
- Recast vigilante classes up a gorefest
- Tourists bite on ‘Twilight’ tours
- Death Notice: SARAH P. CONWAY
- Chicago-area in for a 2nd day of shivering
- Music to your ears
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Death Notice: EUGENE F. DORGAN
- Kane takes luxury route in stadium renovation
- Death Notice: LILIAS FRASER MCGRATH
- oTunes
- For sure: Curry not returning
- Grass-roots movement’s new role in flux
- Inauguration bash is his gift
- WATCH DOG
- New runway at O’Hare seeing stream of traffic
- Car kills man riding bicycle
- Basement odor smells like propane, garbage
- Here, look at the bright side
- Wayne Newton’s laws of motion
- Newhart returns in 3rd ‘Librarian’
- Death Notice: PATRICK F. WEIBEL
- Death Notice: MARGARET M. LA ROSE
- Death Notice: JOHN B. DEVINE
- Death Notice: ANDREW J. LANG
- Toll Brothers pitches in for Toys for Tots
- Sox might have plans for Dye
- ‘Goaltender of future’ awaits shot
- Midway Games warns it can’t make payments
- Death Notice: RUTH A. KOLB
- Cubs staying low-key with bullpen moves
- Half a chance
- Gerstad builds to suit lifestyle
- Death Notice: MILDRED G. FAIRMAN
- Random dilemma
- O’Hare runway brings the noise
- A return to ‘Narnia’ –and to other worlds
- Death Notice: ROBERT A. KRUSZEWSKI
- Playoffs no time to sit stars, unless it’s a beat-up Portis
- Death Notice: DAVID COHEN
- Death Notice: KATHRYN M. SPIEGEL
- Death Notice: CHARLES W. GOZDER
- Death Notice: ELMER G. BRAUN
- Death Notice: RAYMOND BOKSA
- Death Notice: DR. THOMAS L. SPENCER
- Death Notice: SYLVIA SCHWARTZ
- Death Notice: MARGARET R. LANHAM
- Q factor
- Quite a run to 8A title
- Key part of Brown Line work nearly done
- Death Notice: JUDY COMPTON
- Renteria, Greene have new homes
- Is landlord liable for damage to car?
- Victim’s mom wonders if charges coming
- Simpson sentencing today in Las Vegas case
- Police union will pay for Burge defense
- Debate unfurls over homeowner’s protest
- COVER BOYS
- Death Notice: EDWIN C. LIEDTKE, D.D.S.
- Chargers 34, Raiders 7
- FBI raids governor backer’s stores
- White-hot and cool
- Feds taped Blagojevich
- Barack Obama campaign raised nearly $1 billion, shattering records
- FBI searches stores owned by Blagojevich fundraiser
- Tips, tricks for preparing and staining a wood floor
- Athletes of the Week, 12-2-08
- Playoffs no time to sit stars, unless it’s a beat-up Portis
- Palos Park: A village that prizes small-town charm
- Daley’s budget director resigns
- Man shot by off-duty cop dies
- Man charged in Lincoln Park attack
- Cook Co. wants workers to take 3 unpaid days off
- Skokie woman who fell from car dies
- EXCLUSIVE: Feds taped Blagojevich
- Suit contesting Barack Obama’s citizenship heads to U.S. Supreme Court
- Economy loses 533,000 jobs
- Graphic: Frequent fliers
- Steve Dahl out at WJMK-FM
- Fire breaks out in South Side home
- Cold grips area; 4th death reported
- Celebrating the dishes that define a community
- Cops: Man who stole car dies in crash
- O’Hare neighbors make noise about new runway
- More favorite cookbooks of 2008
- Proposed rail merger clears last procedural hurdle
- Daley: Mistakes made in 1st snow removal
- Canned goods for overdue book fines
- Building under construction burns in South Elgin
- Virgin Airlines dropping Chicago plans
- Key Obama fundraiser to White House
- School on lockdown as robbery suspect sought
- Two charged in Wheaton jewelry store robbery
- Homeless man charged in gas station robbery
- Feds raid Harvey Police Department
- O.J. Simpson sentenced in robbery case
- Grant funds Illinois mad cow prevention efforts
- Man charged with robbing disabled man
- Man sought in CTA assault released
- DuPage begins reinstalling memorial crosses
- Cubs announce ticket plans for 2009
- Mitsubishi to suspend production at Ill. factory
- Chicago Public Radio lays off 11
- City closes Bridgeport business
- Child porn charges for Montgomery man
- Teen charged with shooting Chicago cop
- Greg Maddux to announce retirement Monday
- Obama Watch
- Gov.: Nothing ‘wrong, improper or illegal’
- Three sought in post-office robbery
- Man found dead in Oak Brook
- Prep scoreboard
- Judge: No bail for white supremacist
- Peotone woman dies in car crash
- Body found in alley ruled homicide
- Park Manor man a victim of the cold
- Kenney: Cubs to be sold by spring training
- Boys basketball photos: November, early December 2009
- Police look for South Elgin bank robber
- No injuries in Loop fire
- Slain man’s aunt asks for public’s help