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- Obama administration laying groundwork for immigration overhaul
- Death Notice: JOSEPH J. BARZYK
- Snowball breaks window
- ALLEN FITCHEN: 1936-2009
- Festive bone-in steaks deserve rich, flavorful mushroom sauce
- ASK TOM WHY
- Around town
- Death Notice: JERRY MANDEL
- Roommate won’t stop doing the laundry
- YOUR SALES TAX CALENDAR
- Death Notice: ARTHUR LEO GREENWALD
- A year of living quotably
- Man shot in face, badly hurt
- FIVE ON FIVE
- Death Notice: LUCILLE MARIE NAPLES
- Celebrate with cheese
- Obama blames ‘systemic failure’ in U.S. security for allowing terrorism suspect on airliner
- Death Notice: GORDON F. TEMPLEMAN
- DR. FREDERICK KUHARICH: 1921-2009
- Vikes, Colts Pro Bowl leaders
- Consumer confidence rising
- Hawks ride hot hand of Woolridge
- Death Notice: KATHLEEN JOAN WALSH
- Ohio St. to duel with dual threat
- Death Notice: MARY ALICE SCHUTZ
- Girls basketball | Dundee-Crown semifinal: Fenwick fights off feisty Prospect
- Pulling life support to test the recovery
- New Year’s Eve remains the ultimate amateur night
- WATCH DOG
- Court waits in tale of missing dog
- This is you. This is you on meth.
- LOCAL VOICES
- Death Notice: LORRAINE GZESH
- LOCAL VOICES
- Suspect’s past probed in Britain
- At this church, music rules
- Death Notice: WILLIAM O’MALLEY
- Cops bust illegal party in Lawndale
- Death Notice: Dolores Garcia Andujar Griffin
- Trouble in Taylor-dise?
- Toast to the coast
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Arrest in ‘shaken baby’ case
- Stolen snow thrower found
- WATCH THIS: THURSDAY
- Feasts of fortune
- Girls basketball | Montini semifinal: Johnson, Montini put away Marian Catholic in second half
- Death Notice: REV. DR. EUGENIUS GERULIS
- Area home prices fall
- Death Notice: MARILYN L. RATCHEK
- Clothes stolen from store
- Death Notice: MARY JUDITH SPOKAS
- Boys basketball | Proviso West roundup: Von Steuben tops No. 3 Glenbrook North for third place
- BEST & WORST YEAR EVER
- About our recipes’ nutrition information
- SQUEEZE PLAY
- Fight clubs
- Boys basketball | Pontiac tournament roundup: Waukegan, Simeon to meet for title
- Death Notice: ROBERT NICHOLAS GAROFALO
- Lizard’s last stand?
- Death Notice: NORMAN ROBERT MILLER
- Stewards try to help nature restore nearly 4,000 acres
- Hawks hold off rally to win final
- IN BRIEF
- Chicago homicides drop
- Hesed House is a one-stop center for homeless
- TRANSACTIONS
- Broadcom settles suit
- Bears cash in on 9-1 odds
- Man denies setting wife afire
- Four-way fight
- Death Notice: BEATRICE GILLMAN
- NYE calls for great bubbles
- Clay says
- ‘Avatar’ has its moment
- Family 1st for Tigers alum
- Youth does job for Young
- Survival can be stunning reality
- No more ‘Bakerball’ around Highwood Recreation Center
- TUESDAY’S RESULTS
- Death Notice: DORIS M. ZIELKE
- Best of Nightcrawlers 2009
- Death Notice: EDWIN E. RIESER
- Death Notice: THOMAS P. O’DONNELL
- Bids for Kopecky, Hossa
- Y2K kissers: Where are they now?
- Death Notice: JOSE A. CABALAR
- Immigration push in works
- “Lost in the Meritocracy: The Education of an Overachiever” by Walter Kirn
- Tragedy en route to Disney aids other kids
- Death Notice: PETER DiCLEMENTI
- Next stop: Restoration
- Morton Grove native cooked for president
- SAY ANYTHING
- Immigration push in the works
- Guilty plea in card thefts
- Homicides down 11% in Chicago
- Canada’s dark side revealed in ‘Durham’
- Teen charged in burglary
- WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30
- Death Notice: WILLIAM MALLIAN
- RED HOT
- Death Notice: QUENTIN WHERFEL
- ALMANAC
- Northwest Side man is slain by police
- TV spotlight shines on Cook County Jail
- Death Notice: MICHAEL E. KUBIS
- Bold spicing sets apart Moroccan lamb stew
- Elgin’s U-46 seeks waiver from state
- Death Notice: JERROLD HANSEN
- Happy 2010 and keep chasing the wildebeest
- Death Notice: DOUGLAS W. REYNOLDS, R.Ph.
- Park District moving forward on projects
- Cicero assessor says goodbye
- Death Notice: JACK L. EVANS
- Man accused of fondling 12-year-old girl in August
- Crestwood residents in dark on cancer
- Death Notice: RUTH ELIZABETH PRATHER
- Choice stars
- Who you vibin’?
- Two crimes: Sign, rent gone
- CHICAGO
- Death Notice: MARGARET MACIASZKIEWICZ
- Death Notice: L. GARRAH MURET
- TUESDAY’S RESULTS
- Study: Safety research on cardio devices thin
- IN BRIEF
- GM discounting Saturns, Pontiacs
- Parolee accused in man’s death
- Remastered detective
- Funding keeps Metra in neutral
- Market aligned right for new-car shoppers
- Creating a spicy cauliflower side dish
- Care benefit raises alarm
- She’s 102, and she just retired
- North Central’s Youel pushes the envelope
- Death Notice: SOPHIE STEINLAUF
- MAIN EVENT
- Carbon monoxide killscouple in garage
- Full-body scans months away
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
- Tylenol recall expanded
- THE POLL
- Death Notice: DAVID JOHN OBRECHT
- More snow, then New Year’s Eve arctic blast
- Death Notice: SAMUEL STANCIK
- Readers have bones to pick
- Wii games, modem stolen
- Beef linked to E. coli outbreak
- Forman speaks volumes
- Death Notice: JUDY BIANCALANA
- Hales springs a perfect trap
- Coping with credit card bills
- Now, that’s funny!
- Touch of warmth amid cold reality of chemo
- Death Notice: RONALD N. POLIVKA
- Anguish, anger, but few answers
- TUESDAY’S RESULTS
- Lovie isn’t losing focus
- Tillman to remain hospitalized with bruised lung
- Death Notice: LILLIAN T. NIEMIERA
- Death Notice: SISTER JEANELLE BERGEN
- New Year’s flashback
- Parents, child hurt in Dan Ryan hit-run
- Legion leaves Illinois’ program
- Frozen squash puts dinner within reach
- Death Notice: THOMAS C. BRUGMAN
- LOCAL VOICES
- Suburban teen fashions a following
- We got lucky
- Death Notice: MARIE L. SAUNDERS
- System fails, a man is slain
- Obama voices anger at intelligence breakdown
- THE QUOTE
- Death Notice: RITA J. PREUSSER
- Anxiety and pain medication acquiredillegally,officialssay
- Game console stolen in store
- Statement game
- Leach should use his head
- TV rabbit ears gaining new legs
- Art of the healing
- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
- HELPING OUT
- 5 tips for better eating in 2010
- Ex-police officer keeps toy box full
- Caps send injured Varlamov to AHL
- She’s a style child
- Retirement community may switch fire districts
- Death Notice: JEAN L. FARMER
- Boys basketball | Big Dipper roundup: Rich South tops Thornton for third place
- Our favorite eight from 2009
- Parenting, once removed
- Death Notice: DANIEL J. EPPINGA
- SHOW PATROL
- Death Notice: KATHERINE M. DAIGLE
- Kid Sister grows up
- Theater-goer’s phone missing
- HELPING OUT
- DR. FANTASY
- Cops shut down illegal party on West Side
- Salmons’ decision could handcuff Bulls
- Instant classics
- Death Notice: CECIL J. VAN VLYMEN
- Morton Grove native made crab cakes for Barack and Michelle Obama
- Death Notice: HENRY THEISEN
- Homicides drop in ’09
- Death Notice: LYMAN B. SHEPARD
- 2 seniors on a mission
- Kidney program grows
- Tips for small-batch baking
- Urination in gym suspected
- Light posts vandalized
- Getting mouthy
- Collector’s lawsuits uncork tumult in wine world
- Internet on TV might come right out of a box
- Death Notice: DELORES F. BENAK
- U.K. visit enough to make U Krazy
- Celebrities
- ONE ON ONE
- Museum will put Chile’s tortured past on display
- Crestwood residents in dark on cancer
- How great is Tate? Just ask Auburn star
- Consumer confidence on the rise
- Death Notice: GERALD JOSEPH PODRAZA
- Drummer found dead
- Online poll may change Evanston budget plans
- Rice goes sticky … and sweet
- Farewell?
- Rescued snowmobiler gets tickets for after-hours ride
- Orchard to expand after tax incentive
- Putin says Russia must rival U.S. military might
- Death Notice: SYLVIA LIBERMAN
- Huet’s night is short one
- A pet owner’s best friend
- Iran steps up crackdown
- COMMUNITY BRIEFING
- COMMUNITY BRIEFING
- Death Notice: ROSE P. CERVENKA
- HELPING OUT
- NATION & WORLD
- Madison Dearborn cautiously eyeing financial firms
- NO HEADLINE
- THE DIGIT
- NATION/WORLD
- Nokia widens Apple beef
- Canada geese found mutilated in Naperville
- Crestwood residents in dark on cancer
- Checking In: The Cheeca Lodge in the Florida Keys is back
- Wise up to these dumb fashion trends
- 5th police-involved shooting in 6 days
- 2 hurt in crash that closes part of I-80 for 2 hours
- Cook County Jail gets its own reality show
- Man stabbed to death during argument on South Side
- Ring in the bitter cold
- 6-car pileup snarls Edens traffic
- A decade of style, good and bad
- Bandits tie up workers in failed ATM heist
- Gary officials considering replica of Neverland Ranch
- Safe stolen from church held chalices dating back 170 years
- Ex-Chicago firefighter gets 17 years for drug dealing
- 2 displaced in morning fire on West Side
- “Lost in the Meritocracy: The Education of an Overachiever” by Walter Kirn
- Brown’s Chicken files for bankruptcy
- State panel could vote on Thomson in a week
- Amber alert canceled; two Shorewood kids safe
- Readers’ best travel photos of 2009
- Family defends dad accused in baby’s death
- Accountant charged in theft of $4K from university
- Man sentenced to prison for 2 crash deaths
- Fenger students protest at Daley’s office
- Man robs suburban bank with bomb threat
- Vallas backs Democrat Hoffman for U.S. Senate
- 80-year sentence in North Side sexual assault
- Kane deputy let DUI driver go before fatal crash, suit says
- Probation for man in overdose death
- Bail set for man accused in road-rage ramming
- Suit: Boy got salmonella from snake at Gurnee Mills
- Wis. jumps into case seeking closure of Ill. canal over carp
- Snow causes some delays at Chicago airports
- Naperville investigates killings of Canada geese
- Cops: Accidental asphyxiation likely caused man’s death in SUV
- Wauconda releases details of man shot by homeowner
- 2005 White Sox in action
- Missing boy, 10, found safe
- NW Side woman’s death was cold-related
- Parking meter lease: Critics still decry meter lease
- Brothers held in attempted murder case
- Man found shot in West Side hallway
- Man charged in police-involved shooting incident
- Report: Rush Limbaugh hospitalized in Hawaii
- Victim: Attacker ‘killed me two times’ and got early release
- Quinn ends controversial prison early-release program