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2009 > July > 17
- Boy among gunshot victims on violent night
- 2 cops shot in leg while executing warrant
- State’s credit rating in jeopardy
- A Summer to remember, stealing heat from a star
- MUSIC
- Death Notice: LILLIAN M. GAVARIA
- Death Notice: CONSTANCE L. IACOVELLI
- Blackwell’s sandy beach is now dust in the wind
- Excuses, excuses
- Death Notice: LILLIAN M. VALLONE
- Sides eagerly await Rafsanjani sermon
- Twitter takes
- Forget pirates; fear the fishermen
- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
- FUN FOR GROWN-UPS
- Death Notice: BETTY LOU ANDERSON
- Colleges say more people training for blue-collar fields
- Chalk, mustard used to vandalize Kingsley School windows
- FAST PAISED
- Obama visit a milestone for NAACP
- Death Notice: JAMES C. POWERS
- Nominee’s familiar tack: The less said, the better
- A man with a whole lot of pull
- He’s just Marcus now
- Stage has history with Vande Velde
- 1 teen hurt, 1 arrested in mall fight
- Who had clout? Kids at affluent high schools
- Death Notice: THOMAS MICHAEL ROCHFORD
- Complexity vs. morality
- Housing bus tour covers lot of ground
- CHICAGO
- Death Notice: EUGENE R. DONATI
- Death Notice: CYRELLE LEVIN
- Cops say traffic stop uncovers stolen items
- Is there a right time to dump someone?
- Death Notice: WILMA L. WANDERER
- Death Notice: KATHLEEN MARIE BRUNKE
- Pitchfork = smart, edgy
- No more lounging in Libertyville for lizard
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Death Notice: LOIS L. JULIANO
- Death Notice: ROSE MARY RILEY
- AROUND THE HORN
- New start at trails’ ends
- Death Notice: JOAN THERESE CLERKIN
- Cubs ‘W’ flag set afire near home
- Brewers hold Bush back
- ‘Willis’ stick? Maybe not
- Getting that deck cleaned — better late than never
- Death Notice: KARA KEI-LING AYA-WELLAND
- 9/11 suspects boycott hearing
- Death Notice: WILLIAM A. CASSIN
- Cool mid-to-late July spell feels like May
- YOUR SALES TAX CALENDAR
- Elite high schools fatten roster
- Death Notice: JAMES J. O’DONNELL
- Death Notice: JOSEPH T. PULEO
- Death Notice: HAROLD C. DODE
- Death Notice: HELEN SKAWINSKI
- NATION & WORLD
- Down the garden path
- New caretaker to assist families
- Death Notice: STELLA P. ARENCIO
- Pitchfork Hot 10
- The costs of making downtowns attractive
- COUNT ON IT
- SHOW PATROL
- Motorists lose $330 at gunpoint
- Science program wins presidential award
- Not guilty pleas in 2 cop cases
- COMMUNITY DIGEST
- THURSDAY’S ROUNDUP
- Zac Brown’s laid-back ambition
- Starbucks brews sneaky new look
- BOLD NAMES
- ‘Tupperware’ fresh; ‘Storybox’ not
- Black Ensemble’s ‘Sex’ turns up summer heat
- Death Notice: HELEN HALLORAN
- FESTIVAL
- OTHER VENUES
- University of Illinois admissions: Elite high schools from Chicago metro area fatten clout list
- JOHN VON RHEIN RECOMMENDS
- Let Marcus Gentry take you back
- Death Notice: JOYCE DOCKWEILER DANIELS
- DIGIT
- Continental names Smisek to CEO post
- Death Notice: SARA M. LEO
- Death Notice: LOIS SILVER
- Death Notice: JUANITA WALES CARTMAN
- 1st-time director dishes on endless road to ‘Summer’
- ASK TOM WHY
- QUESTION OF THE DAY
- THE VELVET ROPE
- Top-level visit for Piniella
- Is trading homes difficult to do?
- Death Notice: RALPH E. PINGEL
- Frankfort to host free home tour
- Harry Potter’s acting school
- Death Notice: DANIEL R. DURLING
- Commander in chief is no armed force
- Probation for cop impersonator, 15
- WINTER FUN
- Sox need a swift kick
- Death Notice: STEPHEN J. SOWINSKI
- A ‘Piazza’ for grown-ups at Marriott
- Death Notice: JUAN A. VARGAS
- Farmers tell panel food bill won’t improve safety
- Death Notice: BETTY GAYLE MASSMANN
- Establish your credit so you can get more
- Death Notice: NICHOLAS S. IMBO SR.
- IN BRIEF
- Paratransit threatened by feuding
- Democratic grudge match: UPS vs. FedEx
- 12 not-so-random things about Bret Michaels
- Wirkola knows what a good Nazi-zombie film entrails
- Mischa mystery
- Interview upheld in crash fatal to 5
- Death Notice: CHARLES A. GIRARD
- Miserable in the middle
- Paulson defends Merrill Lynch deal
- High-level meeting for Piniella
- Buildings hit by graffiti
- Death Notice: JOANNE E. TAGUE
- SHORTSTOPS
- Death Notice: LAURENCE MANUEL FRANK
- More profiles in failure
- For families
- 2 televisions with DVD players stolen from apartment complex
- WATCH DOG
- 2 officers shot serving warrant
- COMMUNITY DIGEST
- Gray area
- Rough start isn’t 1st for Woods in ’09 majors
- Harris Builders makes dream home a reality
- Noir benefits from director’s high-def video skills
- DANIEL A. SCUREK: 1937-2009
- Death Notice: JOHN W. KLEIN
- Sweet master suites
- ‘Duel’ personality back
- Death Notice: RHODA SEMAN
- Death Notice: JOSEPHINE A. LOMBARDO
- Death Notice: CAROLYN J. PARMLEY
- Jazz Dance boasts usual all-stars, welcome maturity
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
- Death Notice: HERBERT C. SMUK
- Professional poker faces
- Is Chicago really the city that works?
- Seeds of change in ‘food desert’
- Things that turn us on
- Pipes stolen from work site
- POP TRAVEL
- Jobs for Chicago …
- Family traditions alive and well in Park Ridge
- Death Notice: HELEN R. TILL
- Death Notice: CHARLES C. HOLT
- COMMUNITY BRIEFING
- She’s just not that into you
- DIVA POWER
- 2 DO
- Death Notice: MICHAEL BUFFA JR.
- Death Notice: YAN M. WONG
- FIVE ON FIVE
- Death Notice: JUSTINA KRASOVEC
- Officials: Pirated music, films sold at store
- Doctor to help decide fate of abusive ex-priest
- Fixed mortgage rates fall
- Bail set for suspect who allegedly lured robbery target via fake ad
- Death Notice: VINCENT D. TRINGALI JR.
- NATION/WORLD
- Power of the tower not name, but what it says
- Death Notice: MARY A. RAGO
- RISE AND SHINE
- Monitor tells hiring progress, setbacks
- Death Notice: ADORACION G. MANALO
- More power to you
- Murder defendant gambles — and wins
- Worker killed while building stage for Madonna concert
- SACKED AGAIN
- Death Notice: EDWIN W. PANKRATZ
- Pull the heat out of attic
- A subtle change that speaks volumes
- John von Rhein recommends
- Woman is charged in wake of kids’ fight
- Young U.S. golfers head to Flossmoor
- Death Notice: JOHN TURPACK
- Vandals glue house’s windows, door shut; graffiti also found
- T’Wolves seek Rubio solution
- ‘We’re all supposed to be safe in our home’
- Autopsy: Man hanged self in cell
- 2nd half heats up now for Cubs, Sox
- Like night and day
- JazzCity goes Latin this weekend
- Abduction, rape net 45-year term
- WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: JULY 10-12
- Death Notice: CLAIRE V. HANSEN
- Sex education takes a new turn
- Test results on theft suspect who died in cell are due next month
- MAURICE L. ‘MONTY’ WELLS: 1919-2009
- UN official, guard killed at Pakistan refugee camp
- All within reach in Park Ridge
- When inaction is seen as action, it’s all a distraction
- John-Joel set list wants the big’uns
- The Ticker
- Death Notice: JOANNE T. BUCK
- Death Notice: STEVE L. STILLSON
- Bombs explode at Indonesian luxury hotels
- Death Notice: MARY EILEEN HIXON
- Death Notice: JOHANNES R. MESSING
- Stock up on bug spray,listen up
- CHRIS JONES RECOMMENDS
- ARTS AND CRAFTS
- Who me? Consumers pass the buck
- Our John-Joel set list wants the big ones
- Lots of buts in ‘stable budget’
- Death Notice: DOMINIC V. POMPONIO
- Teen to leave gunfire, visit Capitol Hill
- ALMANAC
- AIDS, pregnancy up among young
- Death Notice: ANTHONY T. HARDING
- MUSIC
- At the end of his self-imposed hiatus, Mic One ready to rock
- Squid invade San Diego
- Kane sheriff prevents cuts in deputy force
- Obama whiffs with ‘mom jeans’
- Therapist puts clients to work
- Death Notice: STEVEN R. ECKERSTROM
- Evanston program helps businesses fix their faces
- Death Notice: JEROME ROBINSON
- Engineer is found guilty in economic espionage case
- Jimenez on fire without smoking
- ‘Harry Potter’ and the Dome of Omnimax
- Blackhawks Convention
- FRIDAY, JULY 17
- Gates draws line in sand on F-22 fighter funding
- Man accused of shoplifting tuna, grappling with grocery manager
- JUDI ANN MASON: 1955-2009
- Death Notice: RICHARD T. TERHUNE SR.
- Cycle of slavery steals childhoods in Ghana
- Sears Tower — and Chicago — losing sense of identity
- 4 windows stolen from home
- Movie quote
- Swine flu shot to boost Baxter
- Death Notice: BEATRICE L. RUSINOFF
- Unlocked cars are burglarized
- ALMANAC
- The faster, the better
- War’s costs rattle Britain
- Death Notice: WACLAW POLINSKI
- ATM patron robbed at knifepoint
- Extra day for Buehrle
- Family traditions alive and well in Park Ridge
- JPMorgan rakes in profits
- Death Notice: MARY J. LAMBESIS
- Death Notice: HELEN L. CARTER
- Sun-Times chief optimistic about a sale
- Death Notice: THERESA MARIE MIKALAJUNAS
- FOOD
- ‘Haunting’ misses the opportunity to linger
- Democratic grudge match: UPS vs. FedEx
- Death Notice: HAROLD T. KOEHLER
- Abusive stepmom unwelcome at wedding
- Have you ever hurt yourself while doing DIY jobs?
- Road to recovery
- OMG! Drama!
- ’30 Rock’ gets record 22 nominations for Emmys
- PITCH PERFECT
- Christmas in July, courtesy of Disney
- Documentary about Eddie Adams is as moving as his photographs
- Death Notice: SUSAN A. TORSBERG
- Meet the contenders
- Death Notice: MICHELLE BETH MESKIN
- A friendly contest
- Store cashier gets probation for stealing customers’ identities
- Death Notice: PHYLLIS ANN MULCAHY
- How Darlin are you? A quiz
- Jazz Dance boasts the usual all-stars, plus some unexpected maturity
- Midway Games to cut 60
- No Cubs, just country at Wrigley
- Students learn and earn over summer
- Death Notice: JOSEPHINE HUSS
- Battle line drawn across cemetery
- Green light for new Hawks
- ‘Donuts’ cast moving whole to N.Y.
- In some homes, it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity
- Jobless claims decline sharply
- Quentin inches closer to return
- Man forced child to touch him, police say
- ROBERT L. SHORT: 1932-2009
- Felony charge for man in shoving of woman
- Author Frank McCourt near death
- Where’s the patter in our fast-paced world?
- Fire chiefs sound an alarm
- Death Notice: ELIZABETH STOECKER BARBEAU
- Death Notice: JOSEPHINE P. KALKOWSKI
- No bail for ex-husband in plot
- Awash in atmosphere and potions, Hogwarts is darkly inviting
- CIT’s ripple effect
- Family traditions alive and well in Park Ridge
- Ryan won’t be getting call until he’s ready
- Shootings by police on rise
- THEATER OPENINGS THIS WEEK
- Burr Oak to remain closed until Aug. 1
- 10 secrets airlines don’t want you to know
- University of Illinois admissions: Elite high schools from Chicago metro area fatten clout list
- Shredded tires: Best choice for playground surfaces?
- Daley’s choice for landmarks panel withdraws
- $417K jury award for errant fatal police bullet
- Lightning sparks fire that destroys auto shop
- Drive-bys kill 1 in Austin, wound 3 on West Side
- Minor power outage at O’Hare
- Man charged in shooting of 2 police officers
- Second rabid bat of year found in Will County
- Swine flu tally in state: 3,300 cases, 15 deaths
- 2 shot near scene where cops were wounded
- Harry Porterfield leaving WLS-TV Ch. 7
- 2 slain Chicago cops to be honored Saturday
- Marlins Ballpark: What will it look like?
- Ald. Ocasio now wants his wife to succeed him
- Prosecutors: DNA ties postal worker to 4 rapes
- 3 charged in death of teen found burned in trash
- Man charged in fatal Humboldt Park stabbing
- Sun-Times suspends pension plan payments
- Woman admits to killing man with drugs
- Man shot in Channahon home invasion dies
- Man found dead in Evanston towing lot
- Barricade situation in Oak Park ends peacefully
- New rail money to put the ‘go’ back in Chicago
- Blast rips West Side plant; 2 hurt
- Walter Cronkite dies
- 2 wounded in shooting on West Side
- Eisenhower crash injures 4
- Boy wounded in home describes the shooting
- State was warned about firm buying Burr Oak