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SIDEWALKS BY RICK KOGAN The next chapter A NEW GENERATION SHOWS THEY CAN WRITE MORE THAN TEXT MESSAGES The stands in the gymnasium at Glenbard South High School in Glen...
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AMOUNT OF MONEY CUBS OUTFIELDER ALFONSO SORIANO HAS MADE IN THE FIRST 5 WEEKS OF THE 2007 BASEBALL SEASON. (HE'LL EARN $17 MILLION OVER THE 26-WEEK REGULAR SEASON.)
Us vs. them
Friday is the first of the Sox-Cubs games this season, symbolizing the greater North Side vs. South Side rivalry. But lost in the hype devoted to that divide are other...
PENNANT FEVER
THEY WERE THE T-SHIRTS of their time. Every civic function, sports event or tourist destination had souvenir pennants for sale and many a home's wall was festooned with these isosceles...
SLICE OF LIFE
BILL WEEKLEY KNOWS HOW to intervene in a pizza-crust crisis. He recommends that unhappy bakers plop the would-be crust on a photocopier and send him a black-and-white rendition. He can...
DEADBEAT DONALD
While Congress has made it much harder for John Q. Public to file for bankruptcy, highfliers like Donald J. Trump slip merrily in and out of Chapter 11 while still...
FROM THE GUEST BOOK AT THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY’S BODY WORLDS SHOW
"It was cool and nasty." "Absolutely disgussting (sic)." "It made me hungry." "Not very good for children-too much genitalia." "I liked the embryo, especially the first 4 weeks when he...
THE VERACITY OF THE BIG SHOULDERS
AS TRIVIA BUFFS KNOW, Chicago's called the Windy City not for its weather but its braggadocio. So it fits that our Department of Planning & Development puts out a "Chicago...
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NUMBER OF COYOTES IN COOK COUNTY TAGGED BY RESEARCHER STANLEY D. GEHRT AS PART OF A THREE-YEAR RADIO-TRACKING STUDY TO DETERMINE THE ANIMALS' MOVEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES WITHIN AN URBAN SETTING.
LIVING IN TRYING TIMES
It was bound to happen. Even with our insatiable appetite for spectacular prosecutions, the sheer number of them this year is exceeding anyone's ability to keep track of them all....