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- Cubs clinch Central Division
- Lilly a double-threat as Cubs clinch Central Division title
- Long, hot summer
- 10 signs your aging parent needs assistance
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- Mets 9, Braves 5
- Braves 4, Mets 2
- Key indicator could be signaling recession
- Premiums to pinch wallets
- MICHAEL A. ROBBINS: 1951 – 2008
- Cubs fans step to plate as team eyes playoffs
- With fall’s arrival, time for fall veggies
- Bad start costs Busch
- ELSEWHERE
- POKER
- AROUND THE HORN
- The grand life
- Astros 5, Pirates 1
- Death Notice: LOUIS BIASI
- MoMA moments
- Death Notice: CELESTE C. SOTELO
- Handling a mental recession
- Shaky win no great shakes
- Yanking equity lines must be equitable
- YOUR SALES TAX CALENDAR
- Death Notice: CAROLE J. WARDZALA
- Put your neck on the line for your party
- Death Notice: ROBERT G. McGUIRE
- Deal blunts charges against loan servicer
- Credit crunch still has hold on everyday life
- Fiction and the facts of catastrophe: A new novel about Katrina
- Yankees 1, Orioles 0
- ‘Twas the month before Christmas . . .
- Motorcyclist dies after hitting truck
- RICHARD SUDHALTER: 1938 – 2008
- Rays 7, Twins 2
- Fans strike out on Cubs jersey
- This man at his best
- How time warps our memories
- Palin to meet foreign leaders on UN visit
- 5 things to know before buying a trampoline
- Avoid the rush, take transit to Bears
- Athletics 2, Mariners 0
- The season-ticket champ
- Pirates 6, Astros 4
- Generation ‘TRL’
- Students get a taste of politics, partisanship
- Tax bill a bit more than beer money
- Death Notice: RALPH M. CHOR
- Feeding your body’s defenses against cancer
- Athletics 8, M’s 7
- JAMES CRUMLEY: 1939 – 2008
- Unknown illness sickens 6 at Kmart
- Death Notice: DANIEL R. FORD
- 100 YEARS IN 100 GAMES
- DEATHS LAST WEEK
- After 21 hours, missing girls are found safe
- Death Notice: CHARLES WESTON FOLDS
- ‘Catnappers’ are making a lot of noise
- Personals
- Death Notice: FLORENCE LONCALA
- Wsh u wr hre
- Indians 6, Tigers 5
- It’s a ball for longest-tenured Cub
- Death Notice: DEBORAH A. GULIK
- Death Notice: MILDRED D. FANSLAU
- Statin prescription is not a license to indulge in bad-for-you foods
- Whispers
- Death Notice: ESTELLE BIESIADA
- Lowest international fares for Sept. 19
- Death Notice: ANGELINA L. CAMPBELL
- School reform needs to learn its lessons
- WHO/WHAT/WEAR
- Big events for October
- Developers sought for site of Viceroy Hotel
- With economy, contrast in style
- Death Notice: BARBARA TURNER
- Death Notice: WILLIAM R. WITZ
- Guest services
- Where to find answers to gardening questions
- Death Notice: RUTH R. CHALLENGER
- The digital is coming! But switching is a breeze
- Down Under doozy
- Hey, fans, title a goal, not a given
- Full-color New Hampshire
- WHAT’S UP
- Angels 15, Rangers 13
- Zbikowski answers bell
- QUOTABLES
- Death Notice: TERRY LEE AGNELLO
- Death Notice: MICHAEL MANNION
- Death Notice: ANTHONY F. DALICANDRO
- ASK TOM WHY
- Opening sweep puts U.S. in hole
- Eco-certified hotel a natural for organic San Francisco
- Taxpayers can’t help but ask: What about us?
- Death Notice: THOMAS DANIEL MITCHELL
- Florida police ID remains of former Aurora-area man
- Standing up to the task of learning
- Death Notice: DOROTHY A. MAHLER
- Death Notice: Sister Wilhelmina Jahns, OS
- Not much fight in ’em
- Mom and Dad follow the kids to college
- Death Notice: EUGENIA LEVY
- Cops shoot, kill man attacking his brother
- Death Notice: JANET G. NEWMAN
- Guillen move a major risk
- Death Notice: CATHERINE DENZINGER
- Catholic BIue battle goes to St. Rita
- Death Notice: ROBERT C. MAHOOD
- Death Notice: MICHAEL LYNN BARRETT
- THREE UP
- U.S. gets ‘message,’ takes biggest lead since ’79
- 2 men guilty of beating homeless
- Benet stays unbeaten, grabs title with feel-good victory
- NATION NEWS RECAP: TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
- MARIE E. HARVEY: 1922 – 2008
- Denim diving
- Week ahead
- Despite history, time for new home
- Red Sox 4, Orioles 3
- Owners adapt homes to age gracefully with them
- Warm week to provide easy transition to autumn
- At least 43 dead, 88 hurt in fire at club
- Bailout tab hits $700B
- Fault lines in feminism
- 10 FOR THE ROAD
- Team SPIRIT
- Bears hope history repeats
- Children of illegal immigrants find themselves nowhere
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Poised for prominence
- Death Notice: LYRA ANNE EELLS BLOOM
- The old man and the tee
- Payout just one part of pension decision
- Angels 7, Rangers 3
- H&G to do list
- 5 things we learned from . . .
- Bridging a Jewish-Mormon rift
- Death Notice: RICHARD C. MARTIN
- Ralph Fiennes prefers subtle performances
- Death Notice: BOBBI JEAN SCANLON
- Pilgrim Baptist rebuilding plan unveiled
- 5 things to know before buying a trampoline
- Cubs’ fate in furry clutches of cone-sporting mascot
- Marlins 14, Phillies 8
- Morality bites
- RECALLS
- Turmoil may test safety net for brokerages
- Death Notice: JEAN A. HROMADKA
- Death Notice: JOHN A. LAHTI
- Freaky Friday merely a bump
- HEROES
- Zbikowski answers bell
- Death Notice: CATHERINE J. GARNETT
- ELSEWHERE
- Some serious coin
- D’backs 5, Rockies 3
- Death Notice: PHYLLIS WEINER
- Good time for first-time home buyers
- Doubles team keeps U.S. alive
- Palin’s silence
- No trees? Awnings can help you keep the homestead cool
- Death Notice: WALTER F. DAUGERDAS
- Blast kills dozens at elite Pakistan hotel
- Spartans’ Ray takes big step
- Death Notice: VIRGINIA L. KNUDSEN
- Only Clinton, Palin similarity? They’re both women
- Exchange rates
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- Padres 6, Nationals 1
- WORLD NEWS RECAP: TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
- What draws Alan Ball to blood?
- Longtime jurist elected chief judge for circuit
- Judge says Cheney must keep records
- You can add this spot to your Lincoln tour
- Chinese chairs leave retailer squirming
- Death Notice: GEORGE WIJTOWYCH
- Pie-in-the-sky expectations
- Death Notice: SISTER SUSAN PIETRUS
- Rays 11, Twins 1
- Hail to the chief but hold the bravado
- Ready to fly to the rescue
- Navy robot boat to patrol for hostile subs
- SUNDAY’S PREVIEW
- Off the streets? Furniture scavengers face new challenges
- Focus on child’s health, not weight
- Death Notice: BURTON LAWRENCE PRITIKIN
- Singer happy to ‘Shake Away’ evil
- 5th dwarf planet given Hawaiian name
- Vanguard’s Bogle wary of U.S. bailout
- ELSEWHERE
- Caveat renter on foreclosures
- ‘Good enough team to win it all’
- IN BRIEF
- Bid to oust Mbeki fraught with risk for South Africa
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- Paragraph of the week
- Ralph Lauren brands solid with public
- Man builds new life by helping rebuild Iraq
- The other Door County
- Phillies 3, Marlins 2
- Putin: West can’t put Moscow out
- Governor warns Obama of trap
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- The peace garden
- Death Notice: ALINA M. OLEKSIAK
- Giants 7, Dodgers 1
- The whole package of looks and brains too
- Freedom rules in logo-centric spaces
- Worker dies after fall through roof
- Teen shot, killed at party, cops say
- Westward halt! Gas prices slow expansion
- Worker dies after fall through roof
- Death Notice: AUGUSTA J. ROBERTS
- Death Notice: MARGARET L. LERSCH
- Bush fans can’t prewrite history
- Shorewood man killed in wreck
- TRANSACTIONS
- Separatist group sets off car bomb
- Death Notice: FLORENCE CHOITZ
- Death Notice: MARY A. COSTELLO
- Fond farewell
- Are all ‘Heroes’ good?
- NEWS IN BRIEF
- Using modern laws to keep Amish ways
- Trying to get past America’s age thing
- Bulb basics
- Ike evacuees try to sneak back in
- AROUND THE HORN
- PEOPLE: LOCAL PROMOTIONS AND CAREER MOVES
- Death Notice: JOHN B. McGARRY
- On the trail to his dream, a Chicago cowboy finds fences
- 5 things we learned from . . .
- Death Notice: SUSAN M. SMIGLA-LAFLEUR
- Obama spars before verbal war
- Giants-Dodgers, late
- For Weekley, those boos mean cheers
- Tough calls may be part of the equation
- Death Notice: MELVIN SELIGMAN
- Learn from the sins of business travelers
- Death Notice: JOSEPH J. DOYLE
- Big Apple baseball parks say farewell
- A true Irish stew
- Chicago man shot, killed, police say
- Protesters on the road to Bogota
- Bradshaw unplugged
- Death Notice: EILEEN R. SHUNT
- WHO/WHAT/WEAR
- Death Notice: JACOB F. MARINO
- 20 years in a small town
- H&G to do list
- Raid at complex in child porn probe
- Move unwise, but it works out in end
- Stand-up guy won’t take seat
- Death Notice: JAMES R. GOFF
- Cockroaches aren’t always bad for tourism
- Death Notice: ELLEN WYRICK
- Slain Oak Park Guardsman sought military life
- Do-it-yourself liqueur in 2 weeks
- Death Notice: LEO C. JOHNSON
- DR. ROBERT STEINBERG: 1947 – 2008
- Death Notice: MARIE ANNE NYBO
- First look at Block 37 building underwhelms
- Sport Kit records stats while you run to music
- Death Notice: HELEN YERAKIS
- The long lens of the law
- ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- Reds 4, Brewers 3
- Pit stop before race begins
- Presidential portraits
- DISCOVERIES
- Man pleads guilty to ’06 fatal shooting
- Gordon won’t concede Chase
- Relatives hold on tight to China quake orphans
- Death Notice: JOHN LABANT
- NIU point machine grinds on
- JAMES CRUMLEY: 1939 – 2008
- Future Red Stars check out ‘home’
- THREE UP
- Death Notice: JO ANNE E. BURKHARDT
- Municipal bonds look a bit riskier
- Death Notice: JAMES PATRICK MULLAN
- ON THIS DATE
- Death Notice: MARIE EVELYN CHAPMAN
- Updates bubble over at complex in Westmont
- What to do if your doctor seems impaired
- Death Notice: JUDITH LYNN THEORIN
- Bring on the bold Whether backstage or playing the Material Girl-like Manon at the Lyric, French soprano Natalie Dessay is fearless
- Death Notice: DENISE LIZEN
- Death Notice: HELEN ADAMEK-ATHERTON
- Perennials plus tropicals equal late-season color
- Death Notice: ESTELLE O. RAIFF HARRIS
- Sales claim more guess per gallon
- You can overwinter tulips in pots
- Death Notice: MARILYN P. FRET
- IN BRIEF
- Death Notice: THOMAS MICHAEL PAWLIK
- Clinch a cinch
- Harvard fund a textbook example
- Death Notice: ROGER LaBECK
- Jones gives ref the business
- Ike’s damage varies among Turks, Caicos
- Packers’ Barnett to appeal 2nd fine
- Death Notice: MATTHEW J. SUCZYNSKI
- Week 4 in review: What we learned
- Who to blame? Wall Street
- Meet Tzipi Livni
- Autumnal equinox: Sign of colder air outbreaks on the horizon
- Random testing coming for NASCAR
- JOHN W. JOHNSON: 1928 – 2008
- Truman College plan gets an assist
- Residential sales transactions
- Offsets gaining credibility
- Dr. Blago’s botched surgery
- IN-BOX
- Crank tunes to muffle wind noise
- ELSEWHERE
- Around the state
- Death Notice: JoANN A. CALVIN
- Death Notice: NOBU KAWAMOTO
- Death Notice: RICHARD ELI SPEIDEL
- Get your Bears (big and little) gear
- BY THE NUMBERS
- Penn State battling attrition
- These shows sure to light up Broadway in fall
- Prime minister to boost Arctic presence
- Big night starts on inside
- Problems with the particle collider
- ‘Century’ a celebration of the jukebox musical
- Brew Crew can help Cubs
- Death Notice: JOHN R. KENT
- Death Notice: KATHLEEN D. ROMAN
- Death Notice: JOYCE H. OAKES
- Hey, Chicago, what do ya say?
- Last day for Italian Style at Navy Pier
- Post-Ike cleanup continues in Galveston
- Death Notice: Rev. Francis P. O’Donnell S.J.
- 5 THINGS TO LEARN ABOUT …
- Cat run a safe spot for feline romps
- A neighborly tradition
- 17 million
- Death Notice: ROBERT A. PFAENDNER
- Padres 11, Nationals 6
- TRANSACTIONS
- Death Notice: BERNARD MUCHA
- Death Notice: GEORGE W. MARTIN
- Mauled boy recovering after surgery
- Ramblers win by improvising
- Behind rebel tale is storied insider
- ELSEWHERE
- Spanish-style duplex makes a modern marriage
- For the long term, investors weigh mutual funds, ETFs
- Death Notice: RUTH J. ANDERSON
- Death Notice: RUTH ROMANENGHI
- Hey, not-so-big spenders!
- Death Notice: MARIE KOPPELMANN
- STEVE JOHNSON’S WEB SPIN
- D’Antoni’s style may land Wade in 2010
- Police say 3 injured in drive-by shooting
- New schedules coming in ’09 for some officers
- Made in the shades
- Death Notice: HELENA KORNATOWSKI
- Frozen equity lines put chill in other sectors
- IRAQ DIGEST
- Ukrainians mark famine anniversary
- WORLD WATCH
- Voice of the People
- Volatility hits close to home
- THE RESOURCEFUL TRAVELER
- Death Notice: MARVIN S. BERZ
- If your garden got flooded, don’t panic
- Spike TV finishes shooting pilot on North Side
- Indians 6, Tigers 3
- Death Notice: STUART OGAN
- Death Notice: ANN V. KING
- Death Notice: SYLVIA WEISS
- Guillen pulls power plea, gets results
- Death Notice: ROSALIE LAMBIS
- Yankees 3, Orioles 2
- ON THEIR WAY!
- Reds 11, Brewers 2
- Death Notice: WILLIAM S. RUSIN
- Still tough, but chic to boot
- Spielberg suffers rare rejection
- America, addicted
- Police seeking 2 in fatal shooting
- Delivering the goods
- Better by leaps and bounds
- Hirst’s payday not likely to be norm in art world
- David Frum: Praise for Bush
- Down for the count
- Doormats no more, Rays in postseason
- If your garden got flooded, don’t panic
- Death Notice: JOAN V. TUMAN
- Rockies 3, D’backs 2
- Saturday’s roundup
- Counsel: FAA remiss on safety
- State’s bold technology bet
- Enough blame for all to share
- Affordably GREEN
- Mine accidents kill at least 36
- Just practice, but Campbell perfect fit
- Police Board OKd firings of 3 officers, records show
- North Woods: Wisconsin’s great catch
- Mbeki’s legacy, like him, enigmatic
- Death Notice: IRENE M. SICA
- Affordability scarce in McHenry, study finds
- Magic touch takes a day off
- Man hospitalized after Edens crash
- The back-pain workout shores up muscles
- Viper’s got fangs
- Bradshaw unplugged
- Big night starts on inside
- Jays 6, Red Sox 3
- ELSEWHERE
- Death Notice: SABINA P. SIATKA
- Death Notice: JOSEPHINE ANNE BELANGER
- QUICK TRIPS
- Editor’s note
- Credit crisis raising rates for savers
- Death Notice: HELEN I BAJERSKI
- Act now or get left out in winter’s cold
- Playoff rotation on hold
- Golf cart thieves foiled by mud, police say
- DEATHS LAST WEEK
- 3 THINGS TO DO
- SUNDAY, SEPT. 21
- Cubs fever — catch it
- Death Notice: RUTH L. BABCOCK
- City provides ‘big shoulders’ to lean on
- Plan, play and protect their world
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- Fans react to Cubs win
- White Sox can’t touch Royals’ Davies
- Apparent shooting victim dead on West Side
- Bulb basics
- Bulb basics
- Man builds new life by helping rebuild Iraq
- Economy drives remodeling to the basement
- Morality bites
- Rezko seeks to have conviction tossed out
- Legendary doo-wop singer dies in Gary
- O’Hare runway debuts with 5K race today
- Traffic hotspots: Bears, Cubs
- Trump seeks to sell lower floors of tower
- Hospital to pay $5.5M for baby’s brain damage
- Chicago man dies in motorcycle accident
- Chicago man beaten to death
- Bears’ home opener spoiled in overtime
- Danks leads White Sox over Royals
- Dempster gets 17th, Cubs one win shy of clinching home-field
- Sox magic number: 5
- Dempster wins 17th for Cubs
- Bears’ tailgaters face new guidelines
- Runners break in new O’Hare runway
- Shotgun blast kills teen on South Side
- Fire cleanup begins at Chinatown museum
- Obama to attend Chicago fundraisers Monday
- Bones of Chicago-area man found in Florida
- Dense fog advisory issued
- Dream now a reality for Hindus
- Suburban man, 86, killed by Jeep
- 2 killed as copter slams into Kenosha home
- Buccaneers steal OT victory from Bears
- Divers no match for mussels