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2017 > December > 26
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Eagles clinch No. 1 seed with 19-10 win over Raiders
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Why Americans insist on putting a price tag on life
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Chicago Ridge Medical Imaging offers 20 years’ experience, alternative to hospital outpatient imaging
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Man found dead after West Side apartment fire
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SeaWorld’s newest walrus, no longer alone, speaks out
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2 injured after Christmas tree catches fire in Far South Side home
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Crime fiction: Reviews of the latest from Val McDermid, Peter Lovesey and Adam Brookes
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Teacher’s death triggered abuse accusation
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Want to feast? Identify life’s missing ingredients
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2017 year-end fact check
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JetBlue plane slides off taxiway at Boston’s Logan Airport
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With daily physical education no longer the law, schools revising PE plans
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Rohingya refugees in Chicago face stress, anxiety after escaping horrors in Myanmar
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Tuesday’s matchup: Bulls at Bucks
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In change to force rules, Chicago police discourage using Tasers on people who flee
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Q&A: Michael Obsuszt, Barrington athletic director
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I am pathetic, smug and dumb. If that makes the trolls feel better, so be it.
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Raise your hand if you want Ted Phillips out of Ryan Pace’s search for next Bears coach
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‘Trevor,’ Martha Lavey and Not in Our House: So that was 2017 in Chicago theater
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2017 in review: The best sports photos
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Man dies after shot by concealed carry holder during robbery in South Loop, police say
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Charts: Divvy, income and costs
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Christmas in Chicago less violent than in recent years
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Chicago nightlife at Frosty’s Christmas Bar last week
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Ask Anna: Quick and dirty winter advice
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The unspoken history hidden behind a surname
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Gurnee District 56 names new superintendent
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Strolling carolers offer hope, joy to Zion cancer patients
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America’s trade wars are heating up, as more U.S. companies sue for relief
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‘An amazing sacrifice’: Runner to donate kidney to Homewood coach
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Tinley Park’s ‘Freedom Pond’ detention basin ready for rain
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U.S. home prices surged 6.2 percent from a year ago
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Boo, the potbelly pig evicted from Hobart home, settling into life on the farm
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Puffed up for New Year’s Eve: Pastry bites for your big party
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‘Bachelor’ contestants from the Chicago area: Where are they now?
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New Gary Career Center director touts plans to fill empty classrooms
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Which Blackhawk would other Blackhawks least like to fight?
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‘El Puma’ ya habla con fluidez y camina aunque sigue sus terapias
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In break with tradition, Trump doesn’t host a state dinner
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Best rides of 2017
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Naperville YouTuber taking on the world, one crazy dance at a time
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Pone tenso a Kit Harington el final de ‘Game of Thrones’
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Banco de México subasta 500 millones de dólares para frenar caída del peso
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Tiroteos durante fin de Navidad, el menos violento en recientes fiestas
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Entirely woman-produced line at Modest Coffee hopes to make industry more gender inclusive
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Katie Ledecky named AP Female Athlete of the Year
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Help Them to Hope
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With top seed already secured, there’s still time for Eagles to formulate plan
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Los presidenciables en Facebook
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Renuncian los directivos de Miss América
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Highland Park’s 2017 in review: Dist. 112 takes first steps toward reorganization, tackle football is scrapped
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Year in review: The top Glenview stories of 2017
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Feline Community Network in Hobart
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VIDEO: Sampaoli pide disculpas por exabruptos en control de tráfico
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Got a gift card this holiday? Here’s how to spend it wisely
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Ready for the bag fee? Oak Park group urges shoppers to avoid charge and bring their own bags
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Union Church of Hinsdale welcomes Christmas with Charlie Brown and friends
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Winter’s a good time to whack invasive buckthorn
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Top stories of 2017 in Lake County: Waukegan elects first black mayor
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Chicago’s top business stories of 2017
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Trump llama ‘corrupto’ al FBI por uso del dossier sobre su conexión con Rusia
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El béisbol, el deporte rey de Puerto Rico durante el 2017
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Mom forgives the man who murdered her daughter, answers his letters from prison
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Elmhurst looks to spur development with new downtown tax district
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Real lasagna is a culinary marvel worth every minute of your time
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You can drink wine from a can. Just don’t drink it from a can.
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Options available to help students pay for college
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Party on, America! 5 fun facts about New Year’s 2018
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Gary asks Lake County for 120 tax-delinquent plots
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St. Louis-Chicago Amtrak route to get faster, more reliable, state says
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Woodland District 50 officials: $1.6 million needed to meet smaller class size goals
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North Side home that Jake Arrieta rented sells for $1.775 million
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Chicago high school students leave their classrooms to advocate for Dreamers
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Man carjacked at gunpoint near Washington Square Park on Near North Side
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Year in review: Glenbrook North hall monitor fired, new Maple School plans unfold
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Northbrook woman killed after being hit by car in Glenview
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Trump predicts GOP and Dems will agree on health care plan
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Craft beer, retail, finance among industry that will benefit from new tax law
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Black victims of heroin, opioid crisis ‘whitewashed’ out of picture, report finds
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Want a new Volvo every year? Subscription service starts with XC40 crossover
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Shout Out: Sam Rafidia, jewelry shop owner and PADS volunteer in Arlington Heights
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2017 in review: A year of change in Oak Park; River Forest cheers as missing hiker found safe
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For Aurora mayor, 2017 a year to remember
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De adolescente vivían en la calle, ahora dan comer a los desamparados
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Talk of the County
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Ernie Els invited to Augusta National, but not to play Masters
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Nerves reunite, even if there isn’t supposed to be nostalgia in punk
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Photos: SAVE THE SEATS 2017
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Water main break closes part of Euclid Avenue in Arlington Heights
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Suburban garbage collector receives surprise donation after gaining attention as an ‘everyday hero’
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Medios enfrentan retos ante ola de noticias sobre abusos
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Yorkville basketball programs make impact, spread Christmas cheer at Mooseheart
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Stop worrying about your friends’ money. Set goals.
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Holiday sweater party helps Oak Park’s park district celebrate the season
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Everything you wanted to know about holiday returns
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Holiday sweater skate party
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My worst moment: William Petersen and a ‘legendary moment in Chicago theater history’
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Elgin Courier Newsletter Sweepstakes
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Candidates to attend meeting in Yorkville
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Column: Holiday season heightens the cruelty of poverty for children
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Victims identified in two fatal Christmas Eve crashes in Lake County
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Syria rebels, opposition reject Russia-proposed talks
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‘Stranger Things’ star David Harbour on Season 3, his ‘dad bod’ and how he’ll top that SAG Awards speech
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Pennsylvania woman gets $284 billion electric bill, wonders whether it’s her Christmas lights
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Pizza delivery driver robbed by masked teens in Oak Park: Police
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They said what?! Chicago’s best, worst and oddest quotes of 2017
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J. Peter Teschner, former Doings owner and publisher, dies
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Streaming becomes mainstream as cord-cutting accelerates
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Westmont approves Oakbrook Hills development changes
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Mokena District 159 hires west suburban superintendent
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NFL power rankings: Patriots, Steelers at the top
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Holidays have passed, but spending season continues
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Ravenswood’s Ampersand closes
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Speak Out: Trump is the most persecuted man since Jesus
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Oak Park District 97 board works on equity policy aimed at eliminating bias and racism
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Speak Out
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Will the Republican tax plan be a blessing or a curse?
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Letter: You can help reduce underage drinking
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Zoe Perry plays her mother Laurie Metcalf on ‘Young Sheldon’ … sort of
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Elgin Police urge residents to sign up for emergency alerts
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Police: Man found in car trunk charged after filing false kidnapping report
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Warming shelter locations announced around the Southland
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A graduate income tax is a hard sell — but Illinois needs it
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Year in Review: Hazing scandal, referendum and controversial fitness center in Lake Zurich
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Make Indiana Dunes a national park
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Shelters available as frigid temperatures expected this week
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Cities sue Defense Dept. over gun-check system failures
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The joy of giving
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Moran: Requiem for an old-school Chicagoan who put ketchup on his hot dog
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Will County wins gold award for solar energy plan
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Wondering why your condo assessments keep going up? Here’s how to find out.
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A swastika was mowed into a Virginia field. Now neighbors ask if they could have prevented two deaths.
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Awards for best, worst of 2017: A year of living nervously
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The highs and lows in classical music in Chicago in 2017
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Maybe the free world doesn’t need a leader
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The aging Senate is a problem
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Dist. 112 makes the most of higher tax cap
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Federal court rejects challenge to Trump voting commission
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New film about J. Paul Getty rich in life lessons
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U.S. sanctions two key figures in North Korea’s weapons program
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Browns deserve a much better fate than a winless season
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Waubonsie Valley’s Kyle Schroeder provides senior leadership in tourney loss
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The Doings January challenge
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Workers get more done Christmas week than you might think
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ComEd using electric car ride-sharing program to examine energy use
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Shout Out: Erin Pouba, Lyons Township senior and hatmaker
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Inspector general says mishandling of sexual harassment complaints at Justice Department is a ‘systemic’ problem
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Quickly
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Drive seeks possible bone marrow donor for child
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Trump defies Putin with arms to Ukraine
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Stalled Olive-Harvey College construction to resume — over budget and years late
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West January challenge
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Kayla Hare raises effort in second half as Bartlett rallies past Jacobs
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Kremlin: Russia election boycott campaign may be illegal
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Mansion that was Glencoe’s highest-price residential sale in 2016 is demolished
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Community news
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Year in Review: Later school start, fatal high-speed crash among highs and lows in Arlington Heights
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Ask Tom: What’s the coldest spell in Chicago history?
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Shelters brace for winter influx of abandoned animals
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January challenge
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Rising star comics get feet wet during First Friday Funnies
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Man seriously wounded in Aurora shooting
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White House to cut back magnolia tree planted by Andrew Jackson
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Man taken to hospital after fire in South Side home
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Highland swimmer Ethan Churilla continues to learn from ups and downs in pool
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Democrats build case against tax bill, but don’t call for repeal
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New 911 center results in faster police response, officials say
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Military poised to accept transgender troops, despite Trump tweets, as courts block ban
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Jerry Jones: Jason Garrett to return as Cowboys coach in 2018
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Man on bicycle struck, killed on Route 12 in Fox Lake
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Man taken to hospital after fire in South Side home
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Record-setting storm buries Pennsylvania’s fourth largest city under more than 4 feet of snow
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John Fox, Bears enter final week before expected change
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Change in property tax deduction affects thousands in Naperville
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Chased by California fire, badly burned mountain lion cub faces long road to recovery
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Slowik: Everyone hates puppy mills, so why do they still exist?
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Construction halted at church destroyed in Sept. 11 attacks
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Cabbie found slain was ‘one of our greatest friends’ in Somali community
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U.N. budget cuts highlight new U.S. approach
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West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Wednesday, Dec. 27
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White nationalists built a memorial in Minnesota for white woman fatally shot by cop
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Librería Girón cierra en la calle 18
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Ziv Tal takes control as Highland Park rolls in opener of Jack Tosh Holiday Classic
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Police: Man missing since November has schizophrenia, may be homeless now
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Here’s how a coin flip, a pilgrim hat and a poker game have all been used to settle tied elections
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Draft, not free agency, is place for Bears to make offseason impact
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Starfish rebounding after mysterious wasting disease killed millions
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Malik Miller’s thriller: senior guard sparks Hammond in Big Dipper opener
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Mitch Trubisky spreads his wings, drives ahead after snowy Soldier Field sendoff
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Cold snap, flu season hit Elgin area
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After frigid Christmas, dangerous cold at least until New Year’s Day
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Lake Station fire source still unknown
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Kyle Czerak’s foul trouble proves costly as Aurora Central Catholic falls in tourney
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Michigan trooper whose Taser use caused fatal crash had prior stun gun complaint
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Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Wednesday, Dec. 27
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Dangerous wind chills, 2nd day of single-digit highs
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Funding, opposition derail $2B freight rail plan
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Fred Hoiberg, Bulls share Bradley Center memories before their final game there
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Mayor: ‘Holiday spirit is alive and well in Evanston’
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Arun’s Indian Kichen
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Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Wednesday, Dec. 27
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2017 in review: Most dubious achievements in Chicago sports
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Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Wednesday, Dec. 27
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Trump slams FBI, Obamacare in post-Christmas tweets
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Bulls 115, Bucks 106
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Northern Illinois falls to Duke 36-14 in Quick Lane Bowl
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‘We believe:’ Bulls notch their 8th win in 10 games
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U.S. decision to provide anti-tank missiles to Ukraine angers Russian leaders