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2009 > December > 11
- Chicago man found guilty of 11 murders
- Temp agency shorted workers’ wages, lawsuit says
- Grayslake North HS principal resigns
- Robbery suspect shot dead by police in Englewood
- Parking meter freeze-ups leave drivers fuming
- Death Notice: DR. FRANK A. BENEVENTO
- Student’s deportation is stayed
- Virtual volunteering carries real benefits
- Death Notice: PATRICK J. MEEHAN
- A decade of miracles and wonder
- Holiday entertainment is in full swing, bow, pirouette
- Teen Center gets break
- Death Notice: GLENN MARION PETERSON
- ND’s Tate wins Biletnikoff Award
- Marine deserter is arrested
- Supermarket smackdown
- New on DVD
- Highwood: A lively ‘hood on the North Shore
- Death Notice: GUIDO VITO PAESE
- SACKED AGAIN
- Highwood: A lively ‘hood on the North Shore
- THEATER OPENINGS THIS WEEK
- Death Notice: MARIE MOORE MARKUNAS
- Climate talks snag over ensuring promises kept
- Death Notice: MARGUERITE M. HAND
- A man with a van and a plan
- Woman gets 39 years in death of daughter, 5
- Death Notice: DONALD LEARNER
- Death Notice: FREIDA STIKSEL
- Iran dissidents exiled but hardly separated
- IPod stolen from car in parking lot
- Keeping up appearances
- Deck the bars
- Hanukkah leaves distinct aroma
- Parking freeze
- Drug import amendment halts health debate
- Man in custody on 2 warrants
- Death Notice: WILLIAM M. KAVANAGH
- Death Notice: RICHARD DANIAL BROWNE
- Boys swimming: Teams and swimmers to watch
- MUSIC
- NATION & WORLD
- Guilty plea set in Andrews stalking
- CHRIS JONES RECOMMENDS
- Death Notice: MARION J. PIECYK
- Death Notice: LAWRENCE G. MYERS
- Twitter takes
- MUSIC
- Bulls’ lack of pride starts at the top
- Del Negro on hot seat? There’s time to cool heels
- Bears battling injury bug
- Flight typo costs airline, passengers
- AN OLD WORLD HOLIDAY
- Death Notice: DANIEL J. BUICK
- Charming chapter in life of cinema’s boy genius
- Hot seat? There’s time to cool heels
- Death Notice: BETTY D. CERNY
- Naperville shifts, OKs menorah
- Boys basketball: Rossi finds his shot in time to spark Trevians to win over Evanston
- Death Notice: RUTH L. CHIAPPETTI
- Death Notice: DORIS MARGOLIS
- The Yolks’ homegrown rock has hard-boiled garage sound
- 2009: A winning classical year
- Pakistan: U.S. students tried to join militants
- Americans’ wealth grows
- Seven Bridges auction
- Death Notice: MERYL E. QUINN
- Death Notice: MILDRED A. SCHRAGE
- Storage that’s built to last
- Democratic candidates for Senate nomination tout ethics
- Death Notice: SUSIE HOLLY
- Man charged with assault
- Grocery store faceoff
- Raiders’ defense turns it up
- Tallying the totals
- SAY ANYTHING
- The best live rock shows of the year
- Virtual volunteering carries real benefits
- Hohensee ready to Rush back into the action
- Death Notice: LUCILLE F. SLIVKA
- Fledgling filmmakers opt for direct-to-video
- The right, light touch
- Death Notice: JOHN A. McMAHON, M.D.
- Blue-collar darlings
- Orland Park says no video gambling
- Missing Santa Claus discovered in deep end of neighborhood pool
- Holiday giving: Lawyer’s Committee for Better Housing aids tenants
- NATION/WORLD
- ‘Hard Times’ in Indy
- 2 DO
- An indelible experience
- Ex-Stroger hire gets split verdict
- Death Notice: JANE PETERS BROWNE
- LIVE NATIVITY
- Death Notice: CLIFFORD DANIEL CHERRY
- COMMUNITY BRIEFING
- Tools stolen from trailer during break-in
- Give Barry a break, and beam
- Death Notice: MARY ALVAREZ
- Defending marriage by putting a ban on divorce
- Getting coal for Christmas
- Death Notice: JAMES THOMAS McCORMICK
- Death Notice: DOROTHEA USAS
- First zero temperature hits 3 weeks early
- THE DIGIT
- Obama: World must fight evil
- Restrictions lifted on H1N1 shot
- Death Notice: BVM, SR. CORNELIA HARRISON
- Actor a natural for ‘Orson Welles’ role
- Anatomy of a food fight
- RED HOT
- Death Notice: ANDREA MARIE GALE
- Golden Arches goes for broke with $1 breakfast
- Boy’s artistic talent ratified in contest
- Sources: Firm aided CIA on covert missions
- Death Notice: CRAIG A. FORD
- Obama: World must fight evil
- Downers Grove cutting payroll
- Death Notice: ROSE MARIE McCARTHY
- Team Damon
- Roundup
- Irish have a winner
- Steep price of wiping out ash borer bugs Oak Forest
- Olsen ready for challenge from Woodson
- Giving back to a place he once called home
- Who’ll win (and who should win) the Heisman?
- FAMILY FUN
- Art review
- An indelible experience
- Death Notice: BRYAN BATEMAN
- Korea cheers its rice wine
- Death Notice: FRANCES MUSCATO
- Death Notice: JULIA E. SCHAAF
- Will higher rate violate usury law?
- KARYN CHERMEL: 1945-2009
- Death Notice: WAYNE A. NELSON
- Foster dogs can fetch you comfort and joy
- Death Notice: AIDAN I. MULLETT
- Temp firm shorted pay, suit says
- 1st time’s a charm with tax incentive
- Death Notice: DOREEN SUSAN CARUSO
- Holiday tensions ease when the lights go down
- Death Notice: THOMAS P. HARVEY
- Tootsie Rolls now certified kosher
- RIVAL REVERSAL
- Clubhouses: Big expense or a bonus?
- Meter freeze-ups have drivers fuming
- After initial denial, menorah OK’d for Naperville Riverwalk
- Ornaments would bring joy to her world
- Death Notice: CARL W. JENSEN
- Man not guilty in 2005 Aurora killing
- Irish have a winner
- Game system, plasma TV taken
- Report: Blackwater aided CIA on covert missions
- Death Notice: HELGA C. WEINBERG
- Tailoring homes to suit dreams
- Student’s deportation is stayed
- Exports jump; trade deficit falls
- Doctors Without Borders comes to big screen
- THE QUOTE
- Irish get their man
- A seasonal report card
- Wrestling: Teams and wrestlers to watch
- FRIDAY, DEC. 11
- Amy Morton steps out of ‘August’ shoes to run Chicago junk shop
- Professors: Google site shows flu is waning
- Tyner, CJO in a challenging matchup
- He’s just warming up
- Death Notice: PHILIP G. SCHREINER
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
- Needs more ‘Family’ time
- Goldman curbs bonuses
- Auto-loan market shifts toward stability
- Death Notice: CHARLES A. PUGLIA
- Video is used to charge man in robbery
- Death Notice: BARBARA LEVIN
- OTHER VENUES
- Frozen everything
- small talk
- $51,101
- Still not an option
- A restoration that calls for a full-size viewing
- How easy is bike parking in your ‘hood?
- What a relief! Wrigley urinals to stay
- Get schooled in pop culture
- 3 burglaries in 2 hours increase patrols
- Things that turn us on
- In peace address, Obama doctrine makes room for war
- Serial killer hears 21 verdicts of guilty
- Death Notice: VICKI CONDON
- Hester’s 2nd missed practice causes some ‘concern’
- Death Notice: HARRY H. HOLM
- Nielsen selling, closing titles
- GENE BARRY: 1919-2009
- Doll hits driver at intersection
- Holliday, Bay play waiting game
- This princess can cook (but her tale lacks spice)
- Bowman keeping his eye on the ball
- Trailblazing 2009 in our jazzy town
- New leases at Block 37
- Tribune Co. realigns top executive ranks
- Lawmakers grill al-Maliki
- Minus signs
- Death Notice: SALLY PEARLMAN
- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
- Holliday, Bay play waiting game
- Death Notice: DOROTHY A. CZECHOWSKI
- Boys basketball: Graham, Reed help St. Patrick complete comeback against Notre Dame
- ‘Hard Times’ for players in Indy
- Death Notice: BARBARA N. ZUDYK
- FIVE ON FIVE
- Olsen ready for challenge from Woodson
- Death Notice: JOHN W. SLITER II
- Bulls attempt to stop their skid
- Back for another swing
- 2 teens held in monthlong crime spree
- What home improvement has been the most worth it for you?
- 1 dead in high-rise condo fire
- Death Notice: ROBERT D. PROSSER
- He refuses to slow down
- In peace address, Obama doctrine makes room for war
- Design perfect for a narrow lot
- Big name in DVDs to join kiosk fray
- YOUR SALES TAX CALENDAR
- The dish on dishwashers
- Hinsdale Theater has played many roles
- Plenty of talk, little action
- Interesting Burnham film lacks fireworks
- Are men only as faithful as their options?
- Death Notice: PAUL JUSTIN MOONEY
- EDGAR F. HEIZER JR.: 1929-2009
- Make your holidays swing
- MUSIC
- He’s just warming up
- Death Notice: SR. MARGUERITE DROLET C.S.J.
- Death Notice: MARGARET MARY McCARTHY
- SHORTSTOPS
- Dean of U. of C.’s Booth School to exit
- THE BEHAVIOR INDEX
- Ask tough questions before you invest
- Coffee shop extends its reach
- COMMUNITY BRIEFING
- 5 stabbed after hotel party is crashed
- Brown tops Stroger in poll
- 50 years of laughs and counting
- Death Notice: TIMOTHY D. LUEHRING
- Fans profit from being cold-hearted
- Blue-collar darlings
- New York, New York
- Death Notice: LE ROY F. KELLER JR.
- Bowman keeping his eye on the ball
- IN BRIEF
- MetroSouth could get county tax break
- Plenty of talk, little action
- Obama: World must fight evil
- Death Notice: HAROLD R. DICKENS
- Frozen in Chicago
- The struggle to remove rust stains from concrete
- Shows you can’t miss
- STEVE ROSENBLOOM TALKING SMACK
- Democrats tout ethics in race for Senate seat
- Rise of the Fed bashers
- Death Notice: JOHN WILLIAM SHUNICK
- Back for another swing
- Four score
- Death Notice: MICHAEL P. SULLIVAN
- More to Davis-Colbert spat than meets eye
- A few cans of paint will refresh your rooms
- Urbanites flocking to Sunday brunch
- Death Notice: ROBERT E. NOLAN
- THE POLL
- Twins share battle with eating disorders
- An artful approach to saving landmark
- Movie quote
- 3-scoop couch session is how to honor ‘Loser’ lightweights
- Death Notice: GEORGE P. BLOCK
- Kane says he will wing it
- FAST PAISED
- Fontela’s work speaks for itself
- Death Notice: JAMES ALBERT KVETON
- The world of Keri Hilson, in her own words
- Todd Stroger a distant 3rd in poll
- McCoy Tyner, CJO team up
- Death Notice: MARTIN HAMREY
- Not so fast, Eddie: Probation probed
- CBOE reveals IPO plans
- COMMUNITY BRIEFING
- ASK TOM WHY
- Hot for ‘Teacher’
- THEATER
- JOHN VON RHEIN RECOMMENDS
- Twins share battle with eating disorders
- Treasury comes up with Plan B on short sales
- COMEDY ROCK STARS
- Still seeking leadoff batter
- Lawyers lending handon housing
- Cardinal accused in suit of bias
- ‘Florida’ finishes big; ‘Couples’ falls flat
- Fans profit from being cold-hearted
- Death Notice: RALPH R. SUMMERFELT
- Midnight clear in Evanston; a ‘Plaid’ holiday
- ALMANAC
- Worker robbed at gunpoint
- Good visual art everywhere in 2009
- Failing grade
- A lively ‘hood on the North Shore
- Loan modifications the new Holy Grail
- From Chicago play to Clooney’s co-star
- CHICAGO
- Death Notice: LAURA DIGIOIA
- Keep home fires burning
- Balancing act
- Native is restless
- Death Notice: MARY VIOLET BAHAR
- WAITING FOR WEEZY
- McDonald’s now singing the Big Mac wrap
- Hohensee ready to Rush back into the action
- Twins share battle with eating disorders
- December 11 girls basketball roundup
- Where’s elusive Elin Woods?
- December 11 boys basketball roundup
- 5 hurt in Evanston crash
- Cop kills dog when it attacked man on South Side
- 2 killed in separate South Side shootings
- Pakistan may expel 5 Americans for alleged terror links
- Man charged with trying to kill cop with vehicle
- Alleged Tiger Woods mistress Jaime Jungers says she doesn’t owe Elin Nordegren an apology
- Cops: Man walked into alderman’s office with knife
- Woman struck, killed by Amtrak train identified
- Charges dropped in ‘New Moon’ taping
- Brown ‘cautiously optimistic’ after new Tribune poll
- Metra stations accepting credit cards next month
- Train kills Franklin Park man, but wife escapes
- Man charged with firing on cops has court outburst
- A look at Las Vegas’ CityCenter
- Convicted serial killer found eligible for the death penalty
- NIU clears police chief, reinstates him
- North Side teen missing since Thanksgiving
- PHOTOS: Yep, it’s a barn
- Photos: Suggs case
- Draft memo details moving terror suspects to Thomson
- 10 years for man who killed Montrose Harbor fisherman
- Officials consider toughening sanctions against nursing homes
- Relatives remember victim of Streeterville fire
- Fire hits North Side apartment building