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- Man sentenced to 18 years for molesting girl
- Little Italy: The little neighborhood that could
- Death Notice: WANDA A. WOJCIECHOWSKI
- Death Notice: JAMES C. BALAJA
- New home products get back to basics
- Death Notice: KAREN A. POCIUS
- Fate up in the air
- Plan to rename school for mayor postponed
- Casting a wide Web for tuition
- BBs shatter cars’ windows
- B.B. King keeps the blues comin’ at 80+
- FRIDAY, MARCH 20
- Aurora gymnastics coach’s conviction upheld
- More Blago fallout: Tongue prize trashed
- Leaning crane shuts Green Line service
- Things that turn us on
- Death Notice: MARIAN E. STRATTON
- UAW president will retire when term ends in 2010
- As coach, ex-Bears receiver gives back by changing lives and winning games
- The Ticker
- MUSIC
- Morton Lachman: 1918-2009
- Memorabilia stolen from home
- Grandma says she’ll hand over Curry kid
- Vampire fan savors her role in ‘Twilight’
- Man ordered held in carwash killings
- ‘Silent Light’ ****
- Short takes
- ALMANAC
- School layoffs come as stimulus funds lag
- Tony Curtis: He’s a ‘Prince’ in his book
- Don’t stay home–go hear jazz … now
- Death Notice: RUTH HORWITZ
- Stocks drop on bond plan concerns
- THAR SHE BLOWS
- Methods of Mannequin Men
- Objects in Motion festival goes in wrong direction
- Consumers’ anxiety is not getting worse
- Death Notice: IRENE ROSE MARSZALEK
- Weekend box office: March 13-15
- COMMUNITY BRIEFING
- More bang for grocery buck
- It’s life in the twin lane
- SCORE TICKETS
- Metromix’s top party picks
- Playoff picture
- Death Notice: SAMUEL C. CHERRY
- Man tries to rob ATM, police say
- Wrigley raises the bar
- Report: Stallworth drunk when he struck pedestrian
- Death Notice: VIOLET S. HARMON
- Fire burns again
- More bang for grocery buck
- ASK TOM WHY
- Death Notice: ETHEL M. STEFANI
- To win, U.S. polishes carrot
- Thursday’s market movers
- Palatine GOP boss’ wife seeks divorce
- School district to cut 348 jobs for 2009-10
- N. Korea seizes 2 American journalists
- Polar bears’ habitat disappearing, report says
- BIG EAST BITS
- Drugs a U.S. and Mexican problem
- Plan would give security firm minor police duties
- Marketers are worried by plan to revamp guidelines on advertising testimonials, extreme benefits
- ONE-LINERS
- Movie palace legacy fades to black in Rogers Park
- Death Notice: WALTER E. FLICK
- Death Notice: ALICE S. EKSTROM
- The dependables
- Last dance for aging Vegas icon
- Death Notice: JOHN M. SEVERT SR.
- Slicing grocery bills
- Death Notice: RUTH B. TEMPLIN
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
- Beechen & Dill sweats details
- QUESTION OF THE DAY
- Death Notice: SHELIA F. HAGER
- Sex convictions of ex-coach upheld
- Slaying suspect on suicide watch
- Colin Hanks doesn’t need his famous daddy’s help
- ‘Dollhouse’
- Income-tax deja vu–make hike temporary
- Mexico arrests drug lord’s son
- Tale of showbiz decline unfolds a bit too nicely
- Death Notice: GODOFREDO TAINO
- Cops investigate 2 armed robberies
- On the air with Obama
- WHAT’S GOING ON
- Death Notice: ANGELO GAVRILOS
- Death Notice: NANCY PREZIOSO BABICH
- It ain’t easy being green-obsessed
- Death Notice: MURIEL I. KAPLAN
- It’s Reba, for a good cause
- Chasing a dream
- Able to fight at the finish
- Mortgage rates turn downward
- 32 computers stolen from 2 schools
- SHOWS YOU CAN’T MISS
- Damage to pillar lights put at $900
- Death Notice: CATHERINE BURIC
- Seton excels on, off court
- Jury acquits ex-cop in sex-assault case
- Twitter takes
- Blunt keeps it clean
- Tales seize the screen with bite and morality
- Death Notice: BARBARA J. WEAVER
- Screen star was most at home onstage
- HOMETOWN HITS
- Camp ends; now Bears know which holes to fill
- Death Notice: LOIS GRIFFIN
- Readers savor journeys down memory lane
- Death Notice: HARRIET J. BODE
- fast paised
- Death Notice: SARSFIELD P. BYRNE JR.
- MUSIC
- QUOTE
- Day 1: Finding some elbow room
- Parmesan the big cheese
- Whoa! What happened to your buns?
- As newspapers die, expect no mourning from crooks
- Experts: Courts won’t block tax
- Don’t touch the dial: It’s all NCAA
- Betsy Blair: 1923-2009
- Skilled cast adds realness to artificial situations
- Man pleads guilty to role in ’97 killing
- Assault with a claw-ful weapon
- Ruling party facing tough fight
- watch dog
- Delicacy in prints is Noda’s hallmark
- Shooting leaves 1 dead, 1 wounded
- Death Notice: FRIEDA AICHER
- IN BRIEF
- Looking for ways to slice grocery bills
- Death Notice: NORMA E. SCHWILK
- METER MELTDOWN
- NATION/WORLD
- Town and County offers mortgage protection plan at 8 locations
- Defiant grandma gives up Curry son
- A matter of present tense
- MODIFICATION
- A physical, spiritual exercise
- Death Notice: ODA K. CUMMINGS
- March Madhouse
- Condo auction a wake-up call
- Death Notice: THOMAS GEORGE TSOKOLAS
- (Getting more bang for grocery bucks) (Food outlet stores: More bang for grocery bucks )
- Desperately seeking …
- $500,000 bail set in sexual assault
- Quote
- New spotlight on her crusade
- Death Notice: JOSEPHINE A. NOWICKI
- ASK THE REPORTER
- Death Notice: DOROTHY A. MISER
- Death Notice: THOMAS McCARROLL
- Concrete countertops add rustic look to kitchen
- Frightening ride into darkness
- Transforming old, dark paneling
- Charter school OK has strings
- Death Notice: WESLEY C. GEEN
- Do you have a home office?
- Would Cubs move camp?
- Alderman: Fix potholes before Olympic sites
- Fenwick water polo squad out to prove itself
- Don’t stay home–go hear jazz … now
- MUSIC
- Marshall takes the 5th
- Students hear plea: ‘It’s time to take a stand’
- Justice for toll-skippers
- THE BRO CODE
- Death Notice: VICKY TZOUBRIS
- It’s our mess now
- ‘Curtains’ rises; ‘Riverdance’ hits town for last go-round
- Death Notice: LAWRENCE A. KELLER JR.
- Death Notice: SEAN DUGGAN
- Silence in ‘Slag Valley’
- General Growth shops for more time
- Schools set peanut plan
- Big Mac snack? That’s a wrap
- Congress crosses line with tax on AIG bonuses
- Ambitious Obama budget could hit wall
- Jackson triggers Irish celebration
- Art guide
- Pay legal fees for landlord’s lawyer?
- Don’t forget iProtection
- Muslims aren’t in punk bands!
- Death Notice: FRED Z. BAUER
- Daley nephew is targeted
- William J. Kelly: 1931-2009
- Death Notice: DOLORES A. CONNOLLY
- AIG House bill passes
- Bros in search of bros, for laughs and friendship
- It’s the verbal firepower that sets ‘Duplicity’ apart
- Burris tackling legal costs
- Hunt for a title
- Steering new journalists on right path
- MARTIN P. ‘MARTY’ KNOWLTON: 1920-2009
- Death Set’s tour alive, kicking
- Death Notice: LILLIAN G. REED
- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
- Spirit of giving came from her parents
- Death Notice: DAVID ROBERT ERST
- Little neighborhood that could
- For families
- SHOW PATROL
- Death Notice: MARGARET ERICKSON
- Aye, aye caption
- COMMUNITY BRIEFING
- Death Notice: FRANK CERNIK SR.
- A short-lived run
- MUSIC
- Eye, ear doctors help protect troops heading to battle
- Death Notice: ROY M. SCHMITZ
- Death Notice: BARBARA A. WEST
- Wife gives cold shoulder to Chicago move
- Farming out the sportscast may be stations’ next play
- Wesley Geen: 1928-2009
- Prostitution arrests go up 4.5% in city
- THE VELVET ROPE
- Given the boot
- DePaul star looks beyond basketball
- Children of the night can watch ‘Twilight’ on demand
- Kendall growth spurt stalls
- Five C’s of mortgage underwriting
- 2 DO
- ‘Duplicity’ ***
- Newman may not go solo again
- Death Notice: Katherine Crawford-Bunyak
- Goodbye adjustable loan, hello fixed-rate
- Forget the madness, I’m just mad
- School as gallery aims to bring back arts
- Payback: House targets AIG
- Death Notice: LORRAINE TAUBIN
- NCAA TOURNAMENT: Thursday’s results
- ALMANAC
- Rowhouse model debuts at Cornerstone
- Coach lights fire in Brooks hoops
- Trouble in the ER
- Early warning systems that could save lives
- Death Notice: PERCIDA HAAG
- Food!
- Philosophy of eating ‘green’ takes root at White House
- IN BRIEF
- Marc Joseph is going hog wild
- FIVE ON FIVE
- Rowhouse model opens at Cornerstone
- Fun spoken in any language
- THEATER OPENINGS
- Lose your job, get free rent
- Death Notice: CHARLES N. FICK
- NCAA TOURNAMENT
- YOUR SALES TAX CALENDAR
- Spring starts with a shiver and plenty of sun
- Calculating trajectory of Nicolas Cage’s career
- Death Notice: MARGARET I. SHEEHY
- Inmate from Texas held in 3 attacks
- You call this change?
- AIG could start a whole new trend in failure
- Death Notice: WALTER A. HEADTKE
- Death Notice: MILDRED L. TOKARZ
- Death Notice: WILLIAM GRABSCHEID
- Family calls movie house home
- Hanks lucks out with ‘Buck Howard’
- HELPING OUT
- Police arrest 3 in gang shooting
- Little Italy: The little neighborhood that could
- JOHN VON RHEIN RECOMMENDS
- Compact laser shows promise for military
- Wrigley bar work in full swing
- Death Notice: THEODORE P. KURASZEK
- NATION & WORLD
- More on the Illini online
- Control the sun through your skylights
- Turmoil for Israeli army
- Landfill operator staunching foul smells
- Fields, Anderson join leadoff mix
- Schools brace for worst, hope for some relief
- Death Notice: PHYLLIS MANOLA
- CASUAL FRIDAY
- Struggling entertainers populate ‘Party Down’
- Development, spending at issue
- Time to replace appliance?
- Tequila sunrise
- Death Notice: MICHAEL L. HIGGIN
- Cursed brackets
- Death Notice: PETE N. SIDERIS
- Underrated, over the top
- ‘Quiet Man’ is the latest in MSG’s bustling season at Chicago Theatre
- Death Notice: OVIDIA SACCOTELLI
- COMEDY
- Death Notice: LAVERNE E. MUNDRO
- Death Notice: JEFFREY J. STICHAUF
- THE BLOTTER
- Man charged in 4 home burglaries
- Cyclist cited with underage drinking
- Home stretch arrives at perfect time
- Death Notice: MARY ELIZABETH MORAN-WEBB
- Other venues
- Early warning systems save lives
- Financial appeals sites are growing
- Manic Mannequin
- Death Notice: ROBERT B. CIELEC
- Legal pot debuts in Midwest
- CHRIS JONES RECOMMENDS
- Last week’s question
- Auto parts-makers get $5 billion in aid
- Nothing for Danks to lament
- Pop quiz!
- Who has the edge?
- Death Notice: MARY MARGARET POLASKI
- Death Notice: KANELLA MIDDLETON
- Death Notice: MARIE N. KELLY
- Sound bite
- Death Notice: EDWIN M. KATZ
- Gardening with the Obamas
- $750,000 bail set in child-porn case
- Silence in South Deering
- Death Notice: LOUISE FISCHER
- COMMUNITY BRIEFING
- Calif. treats Obama like star
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Playboy playmate goes to court
- Law firms cutting staff, pay
- Prostitution arrests jump 4.5 percent
- Man gets 6 years in friend’s overdose death
- Curry gets custody of son
- Illini out of NCAA tourney
- Eric 2.0: Friday, March 20, 2009
- Burris tackling legal costs
- Beechen & Dill stays on top of its game
- New home products get back to basics
- Little Italy: The little neighborhood that could
- Steering high school journalists on right path
- How to shop your pantry
- On Money: Friday March 20, 2009
- Obama license plates sell well
- Cops: Driver hits squad car, other vehicles
- 4 hurt in 2-vehicle crash downtown
- Private security guards could write tickets
- Fired school bus driver has heart attack
- Burris asks OK to form legal defense fund
- 2 accidents tie up Lake Shore Drive
- Bill Ayers apologizes, but defends cause
- Son defends treatment of duct-taped dad
- Pantry raid!
- McDonald’s workers charged with robbing it
- Empress Casino rises again
- Man sought in sex assault on South Side
- Obama to give commencement at Notre Dame
- Lawyer seeks mercy for ‘Family Secrets’ witness
- Judge keeps Nicarico case under wraps
- 2010 Chevy Camaro
- Gov. Quinn’s tax estimates a little fuzzy
- Quinn wants to raise state fair admission
- Jordanian charged in threat to Jewish school
- Deliberations continue Monday in Sanchez trial
- Funeral held for slain teen
- City hiring to remain under court scrutiny
- North Side bank robbed
- Rally to seek halt on immigration raids
- Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. begins layoffs
- Illinois State Police director resigns
- Drummer quits Smashing Pumpkins
- ‘Angel of Death’ case statement challenged
- Retired firefighter charged in home invasion
- Imprisoned SLA member hopes for Ill. release
- 1 dead in Kane County crash
- St. Charles man guilty of child porn charge
- Norridge mayor dies
- Sinkhole traps police car
- Police confiscate weapons, explosives