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- Man dies while shoveling snow
- Raids target felons at nursing homes
- Opponents pack hearing on Thomson sale plan
- Thomson prison Guantanamo plan: Feds confirm Illinois prison could hold USS Cole bombing suspects, September 11 plotters
- North Aurora VA clinic changes look
- While trying to spare Santa, I’m answering some letters
- Death Notice: ROSEMARY B. THORPE
- Death Notice: JILLIAN DIANE KARSON
- Man sees son,wife rammed in hit-run
- Camera stolen from unlocked car
- Mom killed, son hurt
- Michelle Obama and daughters visit children’s hospital
- Threadless sows search clues on Twitter
- Death Notice: ROBERT W. CORCORAN
- Returning students adjust to new world
- Death Notice: HENRY L. GREILSHEIM
- Fangs and feathers in rare fossil
- Collapse triggers rotation changes
- ‘The Night Before Christmas’
- BIG BUST THEORIES
- Meyer brings Wildcats back
- Nursing homes are raided
- Death Notice: KAREN SUTTON
- Hot ‘Chili’ leaves Favre bothered
- JOHN E. JEUCK: 1916-2009
- They’re ultra-frugal but giving
- College fund settlement less than expected
- 4 years for stealing firearms
- Hot line helps keep those Christmas lights twinkling
- Seventh-grader makes charms to aid Iowa raptors
- Just a little will do ya
- Death Notice: SHIRLEY ZEE
- More H1N1 flu vaccine recalled
- SANTA BRIGGS IS COMING TO TOWN
- Who’s your dawg?
- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
- FAST PAISED
- LOCAL VOICES
- Expressive eggnogs
- Popularity contest
- Thank the English for our nog
- Chance to make mark
- U.S. issues new credit rules
- ASK TOM WHY
- Death Notice: RICHARD E. KULPA
- Safe, register drawer stolen
- Audience for arts down, but not out
- Cudi cuffed, released
- ARNOLD STANG: 1918-2009
- Begin 2010 with a safe ride home
- 2000-2009: The decade in culture
- Death Notice: LEROY ADAMS
- Nazi fan, survivalist ruled unfit for trial
- THE REV. M. EARLE SARDON: 1912-2009
- Sprawling storm threatening the Midwest
- Death Notice: EMILY E.C. METER
- Abortion compromise in Senate irks both sides
- Winner details Union Station in gingerbread
- For lives in peril, a safety net
- Death Notice: WAYNE F. HERNLY
- IN BRIEF
- Navy wary of manatee aid plan
- Area banker tells Obama about woes
- Thomson prison Guantanamo plan: Feds confirm Illinois prison could hold USS Cole bombing suspects, September 11 plotters
- Sharks bait — and switch
- WHO COULD FILL HIS TIGHT T-SHIRTS?
- New 16-screen venue is theater of your dreams
- Teen plays $18 million violin
- Prison could hold suspects from noted terror attacks
- GPS unit, music player missing
- Budget wines for the holidays
- 1st for defense: Suh player of year
- Arab critics assail Egypt for Gaza tunnel barrier
- Snowplow blade reported stolen
- Many workers eager to exit
- Chicagoan killed in Afghanistan
- Chicago-based Diamond Bank CEO Matt Gambs shares opinions with President Barack Obama
- Christmas breakfast made easy
- Death Notice: FAYE GOLDFARB SPIRO
- DR. FANTASY
- Judge scolds cop accused of fatal DUI crash
- YOUR SALES TAX CALENDAR
- Funds set for Ridgewood sewer, water
- COMMUNITY BRIEFING
- RED HOT
- Illinois Bright Start college fund settlement less than expected
- Illinois must get tuned in on road
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Big bust theories
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
- Baby on board
- An epic for an epoch
- Death Notice: JACOB LEVIN
- WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23
- Nursing home sweeps find 18 residents with outstanding warrants
- A ‘Man’ he knows well
- Stars are starting to feel snakebit
- Blagojevich’s kin goes after calls
- Firm accused of unfinished work
- Taking the nation’s temperature
- Late cancellation
- The Force is with RedEye’s bloggers
- Death Notice: DONNA MARIE RAJCZYK
- Wyndham O’Hare closing
- Shelf life
- Woman charged with driving on a revoked license, and DUI
- Death Notice: DONALD PATRICK KLEIN, PhD.
- Statues, bricks memorialize children
- Boys basketball | Wheeling tournament: LaTulip helps Prospect slip past Libertyville in semifinal
- Recession transforms generation
- Canned foods help bring tuna pasta to the table fast
- Chicago Free Press staffers leave over lack of pay
- Man accused of choking, hitting pregnant girlfriend at her home
- Refusal to testify lands 3 in jail
- Microsoft loses ruling on patent
- HELPING OUT
- SAY ANYTHING
- Collapse triggers rotation changes
- Death Notice: PENNY ANN BARRON
- Ex-Streets and San chief Sanchez to get new trial
- WHAT’S THE CATCH?
- Law, order and language that illuminates all of it
- Heading off holiday weight gain
- Packages stolen from front porch
- Animals’ deaths hit hard at Shedd, Brookfield Zoo
- Death Notice: FLORENCE H. DALTON
- BYO GLEE
- 2009’s 10 BEST MOVIES
- FIVE ON FIVE
- Hot ‘Chili’ leaves Favre bothered
- City school district: Lawmaker owes $500,000
- Suburb takes over Sears Centre
- Wildcats earn their break
- 2nd Boeing 787 takes flight
- Death Notice: HELEN T. KRASS
- A Nebraska Christmas angel works her magic in New York
- Nursing homes raided
- Death Notice: ESTHER SCHNEIDER
- David Chang
- Death Notice: ROBERT F. KAMPA
- Man charged in hit-and-run
- S. Loop’s new deal
- A conviction is swept away
- A modern, urbanized ‘Night Before Christmas’
- Ex-Streets and San chief Sanchez to get new trial
- Death Notice: RICHARD ZIEMBA
- Hot cider spices up any party
- Teen daughter’s exit plan for party? It’s complicated
- Brown’s evolution into power
- 5th straight gain for home sales in Chicago area
- Seasonal splurges
- Who you vibin’?
- Running your own little holiday B&B
- Supporting neighbors in need
- Recovering Eager still has high hopes
- Endive spears can skewer other crudites
- President vows to cut small banks’ red tape
- Bus info is now on phones
- Chipmunk mania turns to roadkill in sequel
- Programs hurting for bilingual volunteers
- Back on ‘Sopranos’ turf
- For lives in peril, a safety net
- Parish nurses’ spirit of healing
- Death Notice: RICHARD K. WICKSTROM
- Longhorns simply sublime
- MICHAEL LAVELLE SR.: 1938-2009
- small talk
- LOCAL VOICES
- Easy as gravy
- Hoarding is blamed in fire death
- Searching for cheesecake
- No miracles here
- Montini takes home Dvorak title
- Death Notice: WILLIAM BURKE DUFFIE, Ph.D
- 2 words are guaranteed to confound: ‘No gifts’
- Chicagoland book club: Barrington Newcomers and Neighbors Club
- Death Notice: JOHN ANDREW CESTAR
- 10 in 2010
- The real joke’s on you, Bulls fans
- WATCH THIS: WEDNESDAY
- Meyer brings ‘Cats back
- CHICAGO
- Cabrera deal costs Cubs one of their CF options
- Death Notice: AMELIA CETIN
- Shark-bitten
- Death Notice: ROBERT C. BAENZIGER
- Going nowhere
- Health vote set, eyes ahead
- Death Notice: EDWARD KOPTA
- Divided they stand
- Texting cute guy sounds like a ‘hook-up’
- New wave?
- the quote
- Death Notice: SAMUEL HELFER
- Brothers power Knights
- Dorothy Brown touts knowledge, experience
- 2 charged in slaying of student
- Woman hit, robbed of backpack
- Shoplifting gets priest’s blessing
- Vigilantes beat man who was accused of rape, home invasion
- Girls basketball: Wheaton North roundup: Elk Grove takes third; Glenbrook South wins consolation
- GDP reading revised lower
- LOCAL VOICES
- $14,000 in cash, items taken
- Illinois must get tuned in on road
- Revenge killing of hero’s family shocks Mexicans
- Espagnole, a French mother sauce worth its stock
- Sometimes it’s the gift that counts
- At Obama visit, Bo steals show
- Death Notice: MIGUEL M. GALVEZ
- Burr’s misfire
- Campus crawl
- DIGIT
- Death Notice: BENJAMIN M. HAMLING
- Death Notice: CATHERINE E. LYNCH
- Maywood manager suspended for 1 day
- By the numbers
- Irishparade set to take new turn
- Naperville digs town founder’s homestead
- Star faded, but fragile actress didn’t take it easy
- Death Notice: HOWARD LEVY
- NATION/WORLD
- Longhorns subs prove worth
- Death Notice: RANDALL A. MOONS
- 2 charged in Berwyn homicide
- A new reality for online consumers
- New York, new yuck
- Death Notice: IRENE K. SIESSMANN
- Kidnapped Colombian governor is found dead
- Sharks bait — and switch
- Teens’ charges were on gift cards — presents were for their families
- Sharks bait — and switch
- Part of life is under wraps for holidays
- NATION & WORLD
- 500,000
- Hero’s family gunned down
- ALMANAC
- WATCH DOG
- Death Notice: WILLIAM T. MacHARG
- Kelly adapting to surroundings
- STEVE ROSENBLOOM TALKING SMACK
- Death Notice: RUTH KURLAND
- Solutions for a nation stuck in low gear
- Getting rid of head lice never felt so luxurious
- Huskies roll behind Rogowski
- Wildcats earn their break
- Death Notice: MARGOT DOW CUSIMANO
- Toys missing from storage locker
- Demons off mark again despite Koshwal return
- CTA bus coming? Check your texts
- President Barack Obama vows to cut red tape for small banks
- Woman accused of buying food with her co-worker’s debit card
- Hall, BYU bury Beavers in Vegas
- Death Notice: IRWIN G. ASHER
- Man sees wife killed, son injured in hit-run
- Movie review: <i>Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel</i>
- Christmas breakfast made easy
- Espagnole, a French mother sauce worth its stock
- Blackberry users encounter e-mail outage
- Most video gambling banned in Arlington Heights
- Woman killed in I-57 crash identified
- Brake failure blamed for Wisconsin ski lift accident
- Schaumburg passes first property tax
- Charges may be filed in Oak Brook student’s disappearance
- Cops: Prospective home ‘buyer’ stole as he looked
- 2 charged with murder following alleged pot theft
- Hinsdale bank robber sought
- Inflatable Santa and sleigh, other decorations vandalized
- Police: Missing Gary man found dead
- Batavia couple sentenced for bilking relative
- Top iTunes health & fitness apps
- Darien teen arrested in arson at his family’s home
- Two boys receive transplants from same liver
- Man says he shot, killed robber after escaping from car
- Chicagoland book club: Barrington Newcomers and Neighbors Club
- Podiatrist imprisoned for trading drugs for sex is released early
- 2 girls taken at gunpoint from Zion found safe
- Suburban courts ordered to remain open weekends
- Man accused of raping, abducting 4 charged in earlier rape
- Weapons investigation leads to 3 arrests
- Man fatally shot while walking near West Side home
- Man makes plea deal on marijuana charges
- Murder charge in hit-and-run that killed mom, hurt son
- Plainfield investigates high school ‘sexting’ case
- Christmas Eve a no-pay day off for most city employees
- Man charged in fatal shooting of 11-year-old boy
- Water from broken main damages family’s Christmas gifts
- Prep scoreboard
- Shots fired on expressway cause crash