Bill Murray To Jump Out Of A Plane
CHICAGO — Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Bill Murray has agreed to parachute from a plane as part of a special appearance at the Chica...
Chicago
Rock Around the Clock
Karen Stabiner And Sarah Dietz | Posted 07.17.2008 | Entertainment
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I do not belong to any demographic that Radiohead cares about, and Kanye West probably does not know that people like me exist. But that's going to be me in the crowd at Lollapalooza.
Illinois To Sue Countrywide Over "Unfair And Deceptive" Mortgages
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 06.25.2008 | Business
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CHICAGO — The nation's biggest mortgage lender engaged in "unfair and deceptive" practices to get homeowners to apply for risky mortgages far be...
By Any Means Necessary
Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
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Barack Obama has gone back on his word, Barack Obama is a hypocrite ... I couldn't be happier. Truth is, if what's necessary to win in November is some outright cheating, I'd be all for that, too.
Plamegate Prosecutor Fitzgerald Marries Teacher
AP | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home
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US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald married Head Start teacher Jennifer Letzkus last week. Fitzgerald made national headlines when he successfully prosecu...
Chicago Testing Electric Hybrid Buses
Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 06.17.2008 | Green
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The CTA is testing a new hybrid electric bus that can get seven to eight miles per gallon -- double the mpg of current CTA hybrids. The new hybrid en...
Obama Brings Chicago Back To Center Stage
Politico | DAVID PAUL KUHN | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama's decision last week to shift vital Democratic National Committee political operations from Washington to his hometown makes it all ...
Midwest Editors Shifting On Gay Marriage
Dan Treul | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home
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In another signal, perhaps, that the country is ready for change, newspapers across the Midwest showed either even-handedness or excitement for an issue that only years ago was considered taboo.
Patti Solis Doyle, Former Clinton Campaign Manager, Hired By Obama Camp
Huffington Post | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
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***UPDATE*** The Obama campaign has sent out a press release highlighting a swath of new hires as they gear up for the general election campaign. On...
Chicago Tribune Publisher Resigns
Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal and Michael Oneal | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media
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Chicago Tribune Publisher Scott C. Smith announced Thursday that he will leave the company, indicating he agrees that parent Tribune Co. must change b...
Bicyclist Killed, Another Injured During Chicago's Bike To Work Week
Chicago Sun-Times | Kara Spak | Posted 06.11.2008 | Green
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One bicyclist was dead and another injured two days into a week promoting safe bicycle commuting in the Chicago area. A white bicycle on the 900 bloc...
Robert F. Kennedy: What if He Had Lived? -- A Golden Age That Never Was
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
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Kennedy's death came when the world was on the cusp of transformation -- between authoritarian societies and social and political justice. Much of that change was stalled in the US for decades to come.
The Greatest Musical You've Never Heard Of
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.29.2008 | Entertainment
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"You have never heard of it," that kind of unknown. AND greatest: winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award greatest. The show is...are you ready?
Hating The War, Honoring The Warriors
Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
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I'd like to think that my opposition to the war would be the same no matter whose war it was. But I am certain that my feelings toward the men and women who risk their lives on our behalf would remain unchanged.
Moving Clinton's Goalposts, Again
Martin Nolan | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
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Hillary Clinton and her inventive mathematicians see a parallel between Robert Mugabe and George McGovern, who won the 1972 presidential nomination while losing the popular vote.
Interview with David Pasquesi, Improviser, Actor, Comedian, Meat Man
Alex Remington | Posted 05.16.2008 | Entertainment
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Odds are, you've seen David Pasquesi or heard his voice, though you may not realize it. Of the seventeen movies he's appeared in, three were directed by Harold Ramis.
Chicago, Why Did You Smell Like Barf Today?
Jeff Dorchen | Posted 05.16.2008 | Living
So I park my car, see, behind the post office on 19th and Ashland. And I get out of the car, see, and I am suddenly gagging because there is a smell o...
Hearings on the Chicago Iran Resolution
Robert Naiman | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
The proceedings begin with a press conference at City Hall, followed by the actual hearings. Press Conference 10:41 Alderman Joe Moore, sponsor of ...
My Conversation with Bill Moyers
Charlie Rose | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media
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Inspiration Versus Degradation
Erica Jong | Posted 04.27.2008 | Politics
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Reverend Wright seems utterly sincere to me. He strikes me as having a true spiritual calling. When he says, "America's chickens have come home to roost," I can't fault his logic.
United Grounds 777s for Inspections
AP | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business
CHICAGO — United Airlines temporarily grounded 11 percent of its fleet and cancelled 31 flights Wednesday while it tested dozens of Boeing 777s ...
Seattle Bans Sale Of Bottled Water
Treehugger | Collin Dunn | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business
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First San Francisco banned it. Then Chicago started taxing it. Now, the city of Seattle is taking action against bottled water; last week, Mayor Greg ...
Obama and Clinton Forces: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
Michael Russnow | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics
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We Democrats are dangerously close to helping the Republicans score a renewal of the White House lease because the two Democratic front runners are so close in their political philosophies.
Sacrament of Fear
Steven Denlinger | Posted 03.14.2008 | Living
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Although I love Ohio, when I left it had become a place of dependence for me. I needed to put my roots down here in L.A., a place where I could throw off the last of the control rods of my past.
Obama of Chicago: Carl Sandburg Should Have There Been!
William E. Jackson Jr. | Posted 03.08.2008 | Politics
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Like old Abe, the lean, young Senator, announced in Springfield; and promises, in soaring rhetoric, to hold us to our ideals.
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