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- Appeals court backs church group in lawsuit against city
- Fired police officer seeks review by judge
- Widow says police failed to stop crash
- Death Notice: ANGELO S. FRIERI, SR.
- Lions use familiar formula
- COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
- Death Notice: MICHAEL JOSEPH FANCHER
- Snake gave 2-year-old salmonella, lawsuitsays
- Drink — and be wary
- New Year’s Eve like this comes once in a blue moon
- Police: Man looking for son when shot
- IN BRIEF
- Death Notice: MARJORIE ETIENNE BENEDICT
- Leach didn’t deserve firing
- A brisk beginning
- Running man — again
- Death Notice: WILLARD O. JANNUSCH
- Simple steps to help you become your own best advocate
- Death Notice: DANIEL E. WHELAN
- College employee charged with theft
- Ruth Lilly, Poetry philanthropist, dead at 94
- Fuzzy slippers optional
- Overreaction to terror plot a bad move
- Celebrities
- Death Notice: CHARLES AUSTIN
- Death Notice: HARVEY EPSTEIN
- Regulatory hurdles loom large for airlines forming partnerships
- Spartans take classic clash
- A Decade Deconstructed
- Death Notice: LEONARD J. TRALMER
- CHICAGO
- WATCH THIS: THURSDAY
- Boys basketball | Jack Tosh final: Lyons roars past Riverside-Brookfield to title
- Lack of support bothers Del Negro
- ASK TOM WHY
- Death Notice: LEONARD T. WAJROWSKI
- Cool your jets
- Death Notice: LOUISE A. RUBEL
- TRANSACTIONS
- Deerfield library asks cops to pop a soda thief
- Death Notice: NAOMI PUTTERMAN BROWN
- DR. EDWIN G. KREBS: 1918-2009
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
- Shaking off ‘slump’
- SIP ON THIS
- Death Notice: EVELYN M. STEPHANY
- Netbooks innovate but don’t impress
- Snake gave 2-year-old, caregiver salmonella, family alleges in suit
- Here comes the hike
- Around town
- Death Notice: ALEXANDER CIEPLINSKI
- Bank robber said he had bomb
- Death Notice: BONNIE A. BERG
- Death Notice: ERIC I. MARTINEZ
- Cutler: I was pointing at clock
- Death Notice: PHYLLIS SCHONEBERG
- Death Notice: MARY ANN BARANIAK
- U.S. adds duties on Chinese steel
- Death Notice: KAREN HOWARD
- Meter firm defends cost hike
- Wise up to these dumb fashion trends
- Facebook posting has relatives wondering
- Fenger students take concerns to City Hall
- Death Notice: ROBERT F. DOWNER
- Prison time
- Boys basketball | Lemont final: Brown leads Hinsdale South pat Joliet Catholic
- TV’s carousel of cliches
- Death Notice: MARTHA M. AGNES
- MIGUEL ROQUE: 1918-2009
- Death Notice: MARY ANN ULMAN
- Bulldog spurs on his team
- Ready to move on?
- State: Hunters likely killed 11 geese
- Death Notice: ALICE M. BOTTA
- Death Notice: RICHARD M. HOWE
- Tinoisamoa wants encore
- Violent attack shattered lives
- No comparison
- Legal fight between owners leads to Brown’s Chicken chain bankruptcy
- Coleman makes best of bad situation
- 2000-2009: THE DECADE IN CULTURE
- Gov. Pat Quinn admits mistake on early-release of prisoners, blames corrections chief
- Lions use familiar formula
- Bars take a dive, move upscale, go interactive
- Death Notice: LAHOMA S. CLAUSON
- Death Notice: ELMER J. FOSS
- Afghan blast is said to kill 8 CIA officers
- Dolphins at peak
- Fox snubs Time cable offer
- Death Notice: MARY THERESA EGAN
- Looking like little Devils
- Hangover busters
- CALLING ALL PHOTOGS
- CNN, MSNBC changing lineups
- Grecian chicken
- Death Notice: NATALIE ROSENBERG
- Unpalatable whines
- Quinn backtracks on prison policy
- Death Notice: RUTH S. WEINBERG
- Big East opener an Irish laugher
- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
- Three Hawks get call for Team Canada
- A poetic clash over millions in cash
- Buying a bed? Don’t lose sleep: Frugality in vogue
- Scarlett’s loungin’ NYE
- A tale of two Pat Fitzgeralds
- Big East opener an Irish laugher
- Pacquiao files defamation suit
- Good stuff: Northwestern fans make votes count
- Death Notice: JOHN F. KERECHEK
- Drinks with holiday sparkle
- THE POLL
- Talking the military talk
- Water district sues businessman for land
- Small talk
- Death Notice: RALPH R. WIEDERHOLD
- Patient Montini captures title
- With prices slipping, pass the bubbly, dear
- Secondhand smoke hurts kids long-term
- Death Notice: ROBERT P. HARRINGTON
- Death Notice: DOROTHY PIERSCIONEK
- Out with the old for this New Year
- WATCH DOG
- Death Notice: ANNE FENNELLY PATTERSON
- Homicide tracker
- Students make local appeal
- Brothers held in attempted murder case
- Owl fight screeches into court
- Oh, no! 00S
- Death Notice: ROSE A. VULYAK
- No. 1 piece of financial advice: Save
- Saab shutdown continues
- Mutt’s DNA a whodunit tale
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Mobile Cutler would provide benefits
- Death Notice: MICHAEL E. KUBIS
- Quinn admits prison error
- Future shock
- Early release ‘a big mistake’
- The J-P bunch
- No plans, no problem
- ‘Avatar’ and the faith instinct
- Out of catastrophe, a gift
- Twitter takes
- Meters getting hungrier
- What was best sports moment of 2009?
- Choose your NYE date
- How did U.S. no-fly list miss?
- U.S. investigates American-born cleric for ties to bombing attempt
- Death Notice: BONNIE MARJORIE FRANK
- I love … / I hate …
- Vallas backs Hoffman in U.S. Senate contest
- Afghan blast is said to kill 8 CIA officers
- Death Notice: HERBERT L. MULLER
- FIVE ON FIVE
- 10 years in crash fatal to woman, her mother
- Death Notice: ESTHER ZOLLMAN
- Golden Gate in the red
- David Hoffman Senate race: Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas endorses Democrat David Hoffman for U.S. Senate
- Death Notice: JAMES P. ZABRAN
- Bombing at Afghan base kills 8 CIA officers
- Death Notice: DOLORES WEIDNER
- Death Notice: LEOLA WOOTEN-DAVIS
- Serious about suds
- Court backs church group against city
- Rally backs Iran’s leaders
- ALMANAC
- Death Notice: JOAN G. PACANOWSKI
- Owners’ fight leads to Brown’s bankruptcy
- Death Notice: NICHOLAS F. SCHNEIDER SR.
- Philadelphia folly
- Death Notice: DORIS FOX
- Iowa’s Metcalf earns tourney three-peat
- Dressed to thrill, and ill
- Chicago restaurant reviews
- Cheney: Obama ‘makes us less safe’
- Paybox questions
- Death Notice: JOSE A. CABALAR
- THE QUOTE
- 2009: The year in The Talk
- 2 men try to rob ATM, tie up staff
- New parking system elicits fewer @#$&*!
- NEWS FOCUS: Parking in Chicago: Q & A
- Horses’ fate spurs probe
- Death Notice: WILLIAM D. SMULDERS
- Terror hideouts targeted
- Davis skating solo only
- Championship zing
- FISHING REPORT
- NATION & WORLD
- Family backs man held in baby’s death
- Death Notice: STACY JILL ANDERSON
- 2 DO
- Grant us three wishes
- Christmas week sales up
- SAY ANYTHING
- Kafka eager to use full arsenal
- THURSDAY, DEC. 31
- NATION/WORLD
- Death Notice: RICHARD BEN COOK
- Wolves soar past Aeros
- New Year’s Eve arctic air to stick around
- Man stabbed to death in fight
- IRVING GERSON: 1919-2009
- RED HOT
- Damage put at $1.3M in Lake Forest home fire
- Last day of year: Maybe snow, definitely cold
- Caregiver to aunt lost job, then home to fire
- Home invasion victim didn’t believe gun was real
- Man found shot to death in Zion alley
- 10 things you might not know about double-talk
- Final spin for Don Roth’s Blackhawk restaurant tonight
- May trial date set for Gilberts man charged with killing girlfriend
- Illinois reports four new deaths from H1N1 swine flu
- 3 ex-Blago aides fined over pro-Obama news release
- Cops: Man bites guard at Buffalo Grove grocery
- Aurora man found guilty in gang related slaying
- 4 arrested in Elmwood Park prostitution sting
- Ruth Lilly, Poetry philanthropist, dead at 94
- Jackson family museum may include golf course, amusement park
- Voter registration deadline looms
- Woman held on bond in Schiller Park shooting death
- Police seek missing Kansas teen
- Airport parking fees go up Monday
- Park District unions agree to furloughs
- Bicyclist hit by CTA Brown Line train
- Unions object to some changes at Sun-Times
- Indiana correctional guards stop escape
- Autopsy: Currency exchange owner shot in the face
- Same store robbed 3 times in 1 month
- Man charged in fatal stabbing