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Capone relative who lived in Bensenville tell of his softer sideOct 23, 2011 12:00 am - Hurt, petrified and unable to even draw a breath, the girl looked up and into the blue eyes of Al Capone, America's most infamous gangster. Capone lifted her off the gro...
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Area men develop website to sample indie bandsOct 13, 2011 6:00 am - In an economy where most recent college graduates are satisfied, even thrilled, to be employed, lifelong friends Dan Arwady and Jim Skuros kept thinking about the next b...
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MTV doubles down on the O Music AwardsSep 27, 2011 11:15 am - NEW YORK — MTV is bringing back the O Music Awards just months after debuting the digitally minded awards show. In late April, the network premiered the OMAs, a fan-fri...
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'Awkward Black Girl' web series grows through social mediaSep 11, 2011 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — After growing tired of watching stereotypes of people of color on the screen, Issa Rae created her own vision of reality with “The Mis-Adventures of Awkward...
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Kim's wedding big business for the KardashiansAug 18, 2011 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Call it wholly monetized matrimony. Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are set to be married Saturday in a lavish, made-for-TV celebration of love, devotion...
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McBride taps famous cancer survivors for videoAug 16, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Martina McBride's new single, "I'm Gonna Love You Through It," is an inspirational song about going through cancer, and for the video, she enlisted the help o...
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Spurlock starts 'Day in the Life' series on HuluAug 16, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - To jump-start its original content business, Hulu has turned to documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, the industrious red head whose engaging excitability ca...
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Netflix gets kid-friendly amid subscriber backlashAug 15, 2011 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix Inc. is giving kids and their parents a new reason to embrace its Internet video subscription service amid an outcry over an upcoming price incre...
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Sears debuts interactive, online seriesAug 12, 2011 8:00 am - Hoffman Estates-bases Sears on Sunday will debut an interactive online series called “Screw D,” about a totally inept guy sent to Craftsman boot camps to learn do-it-you...
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Hulu jumps into original programming with SpurlockAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Hulu, the online video service that primarily shows reruns from major broadcasters, is getting into the business of original programming. In the first of s...