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- Committee asks for more time to study school district boundaries
- This self-starter helps keep people Twice As Warm
- This year, put a book on every bed
- Hospira chairman departing, allowing new CEO to step up
- Class warrior?
- Thomas counting on unknown
- Suburban theater for the week of Dec. 9-15
- Clint Black happy focus is on music, not celebrity
- A holiday concert for every taste
- Hello, LA Fitness? Hello?
- It’s ‘Nutcracker’ season
- Chicago theater openings for the week of Dec. 9-15
- Bulls quiet as free agent dominoes start to fall
- Bank fees that overdraw teen’s account have mom seeing red
- Pujols situation fluid
- Sorry for what?
- Smartphones help more shoppers be savvy
- Darien police questioning woman about baby abandoned at Walgreens
- For new Greek museum, there’s no place like home
- Illinois zeroing in on Toledo’s Beckman to replace Zook
- A negative spin
- Sculpture of sound from Bird, Schneller
- Woman whose friends were evicted gets 58 years in slaying of candy store owner
- 3 charged in South Side carjacking
- Blowin’ in from Chicago: Two tenors revive a classic album in concert
- Cubs pick Class A pitcher in draft
- ‘Grimm’ 2-night event preview: Rats, pigs and wolves!
- Life lessons
- Political power struggle
- 2 found dead in Sauk Village home are identified
- Tired of the retreads, Josh Caterer adds a few new Christmas songs to book
- Trump says ‘Jump!’ They say: ‘How high?’
- I’m bi, my girlfriend’s bi-curious. How do I support her exploration?
- Pick of the week: ‘Treasures of the Collection’
- Cage-fighting action close enough to smell the sweat
- Ask Tom why: What is the year’s earliest sunset time for the Chicago area?
- Korver thinks schedule a Bulls advantage
- The power of puppetry
- 2012 Fisker Karma is a green machine
- Jason Reitman and his posse of unlikables
- Go ahead, slurp that noodle
- Virginia Tech: Shots reported near campus parking lot
- UFC coming to Chicago
- Chicago tourism campaign pitches big-city amenities to Midwestern neighbors
- Mile-high mission
- Pujols agrees to 10-year deal with Angels
- Naperville council approves water, wastewater rate increases
- Yuletide shows have a message, do we listen?
- ‘Community’ gives viewers a gleeful holiday gift: ‘Regional Holiday Music’
- Boys basketball | Spotlight on Bloom’s Donald Moore
- House leaders split up Sears, CME tax package
- Bulls’ Korver ready for competition
- This self-starter helps keep people Twice As Warm
- 2 slain men found inside house for sale
- A self-sustaining energy package
- ‘The Sitter’: Adventure in baby-sitting adds raunch and violence — 2 stars
- Why ratting out may be a good thing
- A + E notes
- Sandusky’s wife calls accusations ?absolutely untrue’
- NBA won’t approve of Paul trade to Lakers
- Wright, Forte held out of Bears’ practice
- Blagojevich hit with 14-year prison sentence
- Cousins’ description: He delivers
- MF Global ex-CEO Jon Corzine: I don’t know where the money is
- Walsh to seek re-election in 8th Congressional District
- Why do we have statutes of limitations?
- A restored black-and-white that wasn’t so black-and-white
- Voice of the People, Dec. 08
- Notre Dame’s Crist eyeing Wisconsin? He’s not alone
- 5 things about Russell Wilson
- America’s reality check
- ‘New Year’s Eve’ review: Hey, movies, stop tarnishing our holidays
- Michael Bay reportedly directing ‘Transformers 4,’ Adrianne Curry says she’s too old for modeling, Kerry Wood watches ‘The Chipmunks’
- Illini’s Mercilus named to Walter Camp All-America Team
- inline tags test
- Hidden treasure in bag of comic books: “Amazing Fantasy” worth $12,000
- First measurable snow of season possible — but don’t count on it
- Judge orders Naperville’s homeless protester to find work
- Pete Rock is the DJ
- Under fire, Lake County prosecutor retiring
- About that verdict
- Angels land free-agent pitcher Wilson
- An Irish holiday
- Bears ‘D’ planning to pull plug on Tebow magic
- Beckman in line for Illinois job
- For Tori Amos, ‘Night of Hunters’ a classical gas
- ‘NED’ takes itself down a peg
- ‘Young Goethe in Love’: Portrait of the writer as a smitten swain — 3 1/2 stars
- Drink this!
- ‘My two cents’ origin
- ‘Young Adult’: Charlize Theron flexes her mean-girl chops via Diablo Cody’s latest script — 2 1/2 stars
- CPS students make gains in reading and math, but still trail their peers
- Deposit rule for beach house crosses the line
- Walsh to seek re-election in 8th Congressional District
- Boeing union members line up to vote on contract
- Girls basketball spotlight’s on Hillcrest’s Samirah Ali
- Corrections and clarifications for Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011
- Former CME trader gets 44 months in fraud
- Family springs into action after North Chicago man dies after police encounter
- Fire crews respond to South Side blaze
- Sox lose pitcher Doyle in Rule 5 draft
- Deposit rule for beach house crosses the line
- Epstein: Pujols to Angels good for Cubs
- Angels tip balance of power
- Smokey keeps Motown sound vibrant
- Football recruiting | Lake Forest’s Ekakitie picks Iowa
- This year, put a book on every bed
- Phil Vettel recommends
- Judge cites ‘evil eye of intimidation’ in conviction in ’09 Tinley Park slaying
- Douglass a prototype for Tebow
- Nick Lowe interview: Pop music for grown-ups
- The day ahead in business
- Inland buys Elston Plaza on Northwest Side
- McCown expects to back up Hanie
- Hawks look to Sharp
- Slimmer Sara Lee moving to Chicago
- Week 14: Sam Farmer’s NFL picks
- Buehrle’s exit feels like Sox have gone from bad to Williams
- Lake County warns of whooping cough outbreak, could be most in 5 years
- Madigan: Blagojevich shouldn’t get state pension
- Illinoisans spruce up White House for holidays
- Threat of portable electronics on planes hazy, but rules are clear — Turn off portable electronics, or else
- ‘Holiday Train’ well worth the ride; Teatro Luna still in flux
- Tebow doesn’t scare Bears defense
- Police search for woman who suffers from memory loss
- Notre Dame pulls away late
- Museums
- Prosecutors seek 15 months in Barry Bonds case
- Lemont wedding venue shuts; brides-to-be left in lurch
- A modern day muckraker
- Aurora to get overpass at CN rail crossing
- Illinois hunters bag 98,000 deer
- Mead Johnson to expand production in Singapore
- GOP presidential race: What’s the rush?
- Single focus: Triple axel
- Football | Lemont grad David Molk wins Rimington Award for top college center
- Caron Butler off Bulls’ board
- Winnetka ends affordable housing push
- Joliet police join social media
- ‘Design for Living’ reissue a cause to celebrate Miriam Hopkins
- Statute of limitations expires for ‘Wheaton Bandit’
- Your Morning Phil: AGonz, C.J., Danks brothers
- Oak Park OKs beekeeping, outlines regulations
- Funny economist can nimbly turn the Laffer curve into the laughter curve
- Pick of the week
- CEOs need to brace for G-8, NATO
- Hello, LA Fitness? Hello?
- Madigan: Blagojevich shouldn’t get state pension
- 2 dead at Virginia Tech; school says ?active threat’ is over
- Ex-Illini player’s lawyers seek to dismiss charges
- 400th isn’t pretty, but Hossa will take it
- Balkan comforts
- Four Score: Our Bears-Denver predictions
- ComEd to tie profits to performance
- ‘Young Adult’ review: Reunion of “Juno” writer and director lacks maturity
- Low-flying planes jolt Loop area
- Bargain eats at Fox & Obel? They exist
- Rick Perry’s campaign video opposes gays in military
- Classical Corner
- Naperville looks into expanding foreign language programs
- Cubs roll dice, deal Colvin for Rockies’ Stewart
- The Clash
- Forte doing all he can to heal quickly
- IDOT official remains on job after DUI arrest
- Battier to Heat makes Bulls’ task tougher
- Cubs hierarchy put positive spin on Dallas
- Tebow bashing misguided
- On the Calendar
- When Blago leaves prison …
- First mannequins, now flags to boost pedestrian safety
- Alice Cooper is not the boy next door
- ‘The Encyclopedia Show’: All about Wyoming, almost about pants
- Playboy Playmate to bring bikini strut to Mag Mile
- It’s all over but the crying
- Man shot in chest in designer jacket robbery
- ‘Cutty come back’: Parody bemoans Cutler’s absence
- ‘MythBusters’ cannonball rips through house, van
- A long prison term — and a stern warning
- Attention turns to Fielder
- ‘The Sitter’ review: Dumber adventures in babysitting
- Charter schools’ screening
- Watchdog Update: Feds probe union pension deals
- Report: Pujols turned down bigger offer from Marlins
- Rogers: Pujols deal reshapes baseball landscape
- No TBOX? No problem
- How much time will Blagojevich serve?
- ‘New Year’s Eve’: Marshall plan for the holidays — 2 stars
- Review: Syfy’s ‘Snowmageddon’ is just plain bad
- Why are you mad at Pinterest, bro?
- Pierzynski upbeat about White Sox future
- Gourmet Kitchens owners join Flying Food
- Robert Phillip Cahill, 1936-2011
- Woodridge man dies in Riverside rollover
- IndyCar Series won’t return to Las Vegas in 2012
- Man, 22, dies a day after being shot in the head
- At design show, one rule: Cringe and bare it
- A long prison term — and a stern warning
- ‘New Year’s Eve’ review: Hey, movies, stop tarnishing our holidays
- What about Blago’s kids?
- Blagojevich hit with 14-year prison sentence
- 2012 Fisker Karma is a green machine
- ‘Young Adult’ review: Reunion of “Juno” writer and director lacks maturity
- Zagel and the next crooked pols
- ‘The Sitter’ review: Dumber adventures in babysitting
- Governors State University to become 4-year campus
- Lincoln museum to receive restored 13th Amendment document
- Blagojevich hit with 14-year prison sentence
- Man shot in chest in designer jacket robbery
- Man, 22, dies a day after being shot in the head
- Watchdog Update: Feds probe union pension deals
- Google recuerda a Diego Rivera
- Michael Bay reportedly directing ‘Transformers 4,’ Adrianne Curry says she’s too old for modeling, Kerry Wood watches ‘The Chipmunks’
- Es ahora o nunca para el Real Madrid
- Manuel Antonio Noriega, ex dictador de Panamá, volverá a su país
- Buehrle’s exit feels like Sox have gone from bad to Williams
- Tigres y Santos sólo piensan en ganar el título mexicano
- Orlando Magic lay off 20 full-time staff members, eliminate up to 12 open positions
- Confirma El Vaticano visita del papa Benedicto VXI a Cuba para la primavera
- Cubs pick Class A pitcher in draft
- Albert Pujols se va a los Angels por $254 millones
- Vladimir Putin dice que EEUU financia oposición e instiga protestas
- Jaws joining lineup of lost attractions
- Chisme, chisme: Revelan portada de Lindsay Lohan en Playboy
- Police search for woman who suffers from memory loss
- I’m bi, my girlfriend’s bi-curious. How do I support her exploration?
- Bibi Gaytán y Eduardo Capetillo despedidos de ‘La Academia’ (VIDEO)
- Woman whose friends were evicted gets 58 years in slaying of candy store owner
- 2 found dead in Sauk Village home are identified
- Lake County warns of whooping cough outbreak, could be most in 5 years
- Madigan: Blagojevich shouldn’t get state pension
- Quique Wolff: ‘Como hincha espero este sábado un Real Madrid agresivo’
- First mannequins, now flags to boost pedestrian safety
- Breves del deporte del 8 de diciembre de 2011
- Reik viene muy ‘peligroso’ a Chicago
- Chicago: Cinco eventos de fin de semana 12/9-12/11
- Hacen desnudo total en obra de teatro ‘¡Todo o Nada!’ (VIDEO)
- Sergio Corona será homenajeado en Chicago
- 3 charged in South Side carjacking
- La NBA bloquea el intercambio por Chris Paul, Lakers y Hornets apelan decisión.
- Walsh to seek re-election in 8th Congressional District
- Judge cites ‘evil eye of intimidation’ in conviction in ’09 Tinley Park slaying
- Five on Five: You mind?
- Lemont wedding venue shuts; brides-to-be left in lurch
- Fire crews respond to South Side blaze