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2009 > April > 8
- Voters dump some suburban mayors
- Suburbs decide referendum questions
- Quigley cruises to victory in 5th District race
- Chicago-area congressman meets Castro
- Networks back on laugh track
- Goldman chief: Revamp rules
- Authentic moments on the air in Gift’s confines
- Making it work
- Death Notice: FE ESPERANZA D. SARMIENTO
- One dough, two breads
- Gale Gand is sweet on ‘Brunch’
- Death Notice: DMYTRO MARTYN
- Death Notice: ARNOLD RICHMAN
- Death Notice: LEONARD RECTENWALD
- Building firm and CEO are indicted
- Straight outta Boulder
- Death Notice: ARDELLE O’LEARY
- And then there were many …
- Bail set for Arlington Heights man after standoff
- Tracy Morgan’s WGN romp headed for ’30 Rock’
- Death Notice: DONNA M. DUNHAM
- Baskets of berries flavor Easter menu
- Specialized help for rape victims
- New hope for damaged knees
- Lee: Age talk getting old
- Vermont approves same-sex marriage
- Making it work
- Bullet strikes moving car in daylight
- HELPING OUT
- Suburbs elect new, familiar faces
- UAL eyes suburban move
- Things that turn us on
- Death Notice: DORIS WILLIAMS
- Death Notice: CAROL JEAN YEH
- The buzz on brunch
- Mullen’s generous spirit is his recipe for success
- Death Notice: IRMA L. JACOBI
- SOXMAN
- NATION/WORLD
- Transit sigh of relief
- Cuckoo for caffeine or just cuckoo?
- Midway talks extended
- Greener automakers could still be in the red
- Man faces charge of van trespass
- Death of woman ruled a homicide
- Judge voids Stevens verdict, then rages
- 8th wonder: Bunt, bloop, Thome blast
- Teens sentenced for house parties
- BY THE NUMBERS
- THIS WEEK’S QUESTION
- Will remastered Beatles be worth the wait and cost?
- Desperately seeking …
- Woods sees new batch of ‘rivals’
- Voters deliver sales-tax hostility
- Ill former Cuba leader meets with U.S. officials
- Funeral directors’ perks called illegal
- Death Notice: REBECCA W. SHOOK
- Obama’s trip a calculated political risk
- Deng in playoffs? Unlikely
- Continental wins Star Alliance OK
- Twitter politics
- Death Notice: CHARLES W. DOERING
- Death Notice: CONCETTA A. AIELLO
- YOU CAN DO THIS!
- Like butter, baby
- Giving a boost to communities
- Holding court
- Mental health clinics slated for shutdown get reprieve
- Officials: Homeless man fights cops
- Death Notice: DONALD O. GROEN
- Death Notice: DOROTHY L. PETRIE
- Futuristic take on 2-wheelers
- FIVE ON FIVE
- Vermont OKs gay marriage
- Death Notice: LORRAINE M. KEMBLOWSKI
- A perfect ending–please, please
- ONELINERS
- Death Notice: BENJAMIN F. CURE
- JIM DANDY
- TUESDAY’S ROUNDUP
- Role reversal
- VERNON A. BRUNNER: 1940-2009
- Casinos: Don’t share woes
- At animal shelter, he is dogs’ (and cats’) best friend
- CHICAGO
- In the kitchen with Les Dames
- Death Notice: MARVIN R. FLENTGE
- Hope springs eternal for other popular sport
- Online charter school rings bell with parents, students
- Investor predicts ‘Obama-effect’ deals
- License-for-bribe attempt alleged
- The Bean to get new neighbors
- LAST WEEK’S QUESTION / NEXT WEEK’S QUESTION
- Police investigate 3 armed robberies
- Voters support extending Illinois 53
- Supporting those with mental illness
- QUESTION OF THE DAY
- 2 DO
- Young guys, old tricks
- Obama goes to Baghdad
- Death Notice: ANTOINETTE M. SWENSON
- Farnsworth great … until he pitches
- Mariana de la Torre: 1980-2009
- Thrift ordered to improve
- Man indicted in home invasion
- Death Notice: WILLIAM E. SCHILLING
- Death Notice: SYLVIA PETERSON
- CTA: Cuts, fare hikes unlikely
- Death Notice: PHYLLIS L. WINTON
- Richard Scheidt: 1928-2009
- Tuesday’s market movers
- Death Notice: ROSALINA C. HESS
- Death Notice: ALLAN P. WILLIAMSON
- Death Notice: DR. DAVID S. FOX
- LAST WEEK’S QUESTION
- A long, strange plane trip
- ALMANAC
- Hamming it up
- Fontenot again gets starting nod at 2nd
- Death Notice: SIDNEY SCHATZ
- Death Notice: MARIAN DANIELS
- Good start goes for naught
- Death Notice: RICHARD F. GILBERT
- ‘Life’
- WATCH DOG
- Games in the palm of your hand
- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
- A faith comes full circle
- Manischewitz: It’s not just for Passover anymore
- Public support of 2016 Games in question
- 5th Congressional District
- Death Notice: GEORGE FRANK TASEFF
- 2016 Games bid strong, IOC says
- PRICE CHECK: ORGANICS
- Trial identities to be protected
- Suburban angst hits sour notes in ‘Parlour Song’
- Special prosecutor named in Burge cases
- Death Notice: SABRINA LEMMERMANN
- Quake shakes village to core
- Last week’s question / THIS WEEK’S QUESTION
- Teen accused of molestation
- Death Notice: HARRY L. O’BRIEN
- Death Notice: BETT SIMMONS
- Fewer teens died in car crashes in ’08
- Death Notice: LOUISE J. SMITH
- Death Notice: STEPHANIE SULLIVAN
- Rock thrown through window in school
- It won’t be a heat wave, but it will be mild
- Death Notice: LAVERNE CRIPPEN
- ‘House’ shocker handled badly
- Who ever said modern art was priceless?
- Grocery store in the works for long-underserved suburb
- A ‘most livable’ suburb evolves beyond Chicago’s playground
- Death Notice: JUDITH E. ANDERSON
- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
- Smile and pay up
- Death Notice: ELEANOR SANTILLI
- Death Notice: DIANE L. JAKUBOWSKI
- ALMANAC
- ‘Top Chef’ spinoff will star 3 Chicago chefs
- YOUR SALES TAX CALENDAR
- OPENING DAY AT U.S. CELLULAR FIELD WHITE SOX 4, ROYALS 2
- Death Notice: EVA JUNGERT
- College adds major in criminal justice
- iPod shuffle
- Cops: Teen hid gun in stuffed toy
- AROUND THE HORN
- Snowmobiler’s charges include DUI
- Grandma needs a lesson in family bonds Enterprise smells like monkey business
- UConn’s perfect ending
- Ham glam: Rubs, glazes add personal touch
- Orland Park woman denied bail in death of niece, 2
- IQ of 47 is no bar to a 100-year sentence
- Death Notice: MILDRED LOCKETT
- A witness to plight of birds
- Lake County wonders where to stash the trash
- HELPING OUT
- Just say no to Plaxico
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
- Quake shakes village to core
- Guillen happy playoff coin flip has been tossed
- Now hear this
- CEO outlook index plunges
- MOCK & AWE
- TICKET MASTERS
- Woman is cited in April Fools’ prank
- Roasting garlic
- Death Notice: GEORGE L. LAMPARTER
- NATION & WORLD
- No time to waste on mass transit
- Pulse monitor
- Death Notice: CAROLINE KUH
- TAR HEELS, SPARTANS SCORE 17.2M VIEWERS
- Death Notice: CHARLES T. MESTJIAN
- ASK TOM WHY
- A hot dog man’s stand
- Earnings may fool forecasters
- IN BRIEF
- Death Notice: EDWARD ADASKA
- Death Notice: JEAN M. JASTER
- SHELF LIFE
- Health insurance mergers could be painful, critics say
- Crime on your block
- To Guillen, walk year time for contract run
- Busting crooked pols
- Walgreens says no to head of state
- HOMETOWN HITS
- Collapse risk spurs playpens recall
- Egg epiphany
- 4 people go to hospitals after crash in Lawndale
- Hey, Bean, meet Arrowhead. Or the Roof?
- Car towed from owner’s driveway
- Captain Morgan Club at Wrigley
- The Ticker
- ‘Southland’ guns for grit; ‘Unusuals’ keeps it light
- Heroin’s toll is mother’s grief
- Lamb shanks go Moroccan
- Heavy mettle
- Farmers market information: LAST CALL!
- Stocks drop on profit worries
- Death Notice: SUSAN MARIE TROTTA
- A culinary wizard shares his secrets
- N. Korea tests Obama
- Oh, grape! Wine drinking down
- Strike a pose
- 4 face charges in armed robbery
- Death Notice: ANTHONY SERRITELLA
- First lady gives Essence, Talbots much to smile about
- HELPING OUT
- Footing the bill
- Death Notice: LOIS E. ENGELTER
- LAST WEEK’S QUESTION
- Local voices
- DUI charges follow parking-lot crash
- Death Notice: RICHARD T. SCHEIDT
- Death Notice: CAROL L. BOOTH
- Twitter pulls back curtain on operation
- Firms chosen for O’Hare expansion designs
- Police worried over new SUVs, cite gaps in cage
- Tax debate has many squirming
- Wild about sour beers
- Fire ruins home; no one injured
- ‘Fantasy dancers’ collide with Franklin Park reality
- Loss could keep hurting
- THE VELVET ROPE
- Lee: Age talk is old
- Troubled ex-Bear lands in Cincinnati
- Death Notice: DELORES DEE WELCH
- He’s back, and he has a wood chipper
- Ill former Cuba leader meets with U.S. officials
- THE DIGIT
- Olympic judges give city high marks
- Mariana de la Torre, 1980-2009: Medical odyssey raised key issues
- Chicago Bulls hold off New York Knicks 110-103
- Wednesday, April 8, 2009
- Chicago Blackhawks stifle Nashville Predators 4-2
- Busting crooked pols
- 8 charged with forging income-tax forms
- Pulte Homes
- Blagojevich to be arraigned next week
- Jews gather for rare blessing of the sun
- Street closed to fix water-main break
- U.S. official: Ship’s crew freed
- Pirates of the 21st century
- Mom gives birth in car outside hospital
- Rep. Jackson under scrutiny by ethics panel
- Not guilty plea in death of Gayle’s girlfriend
- Plane reporting stuck landing gear lands safely
- Ex-El Rukn gang chief acquitted of two murders
- Former bank auditor pleads guilty to theft
- Feds questioned IFA officials in Blagojevich probe
- Groups, firms kicking in $1 million for 2010 census
- Suburban principal charged with sex abuse
- Man charged in drug death kept in jail
- Woman sues over alleged MySpace threat
- Search begins for Ill. pension head
- Soldier Field eyed as World Cup site
- Teen shot to death on South Side
- Austin residents fill potholes themselves
- Pedestrian killed by train in River Grove ID’d
- Girl injured in suburban crash last week dies
- Quinn might renew recall push
- Governor tries to cover all bases
- East Chicago site added to EPA’s Superfund list
- Ex-trustee convicted of fraud in NW Indiana
- Chicago kicks off 2010 Census
- Carbon monoxide sends 8 to hospitals
- Quinn catching up on pardon requests
- Daley offers script for fighting corruption
- 3 people shot on South Side
- Man sues after snake attack
- Prep scoreboard
- Meijer pulls pet toy after worms found