Chicago
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Microsoft to spin off 'Halo' creator with Chicago roots
Oct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - SEATTLE -- Bungie Studios, the "Halo" video game developer acquired by Microsoft Corp. in 2000, is once again operating as an independent company, Microsoft said Friday....
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Health center escapee found in ChicagoOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - A fugitive who escaped the Elgin Mental Health Center a month ago was caught Friday afternoon on Chicago's South Side, police said. Tolbert Walls, 31, whose last address...
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Chicago offers a selection of attached homesOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Chicago offers a variety of condominium and townhouse options priced at more than $250,000. Community: The Enclave at Galewood Crossing -- Condominiums by Red Seal Devel...
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Sunday drive in city won't be easyOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - If you don't absolutely have to be in Chicago Sunday, just stay away. If you are going downtown, plan ahead and expect frustrating delays. Sunday's Chicago Marathon an...
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Defending champions head world-class fieldOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - The first few rows of the runners lining up at the start line of any major marathon are reserved for the elite athletes who have been paid by the organizers to be there ...
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Effort to honor famed author Saul Bellow stalled by his racial comments
Oct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - In a city whose streets commemorate literary notables like the German Goethe and the Frenchman Jean Racine, naming an avenue, a statue, or maybe a school after the Ameri...
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Fans still remember vanished amusement park
Oct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - You had to be there. And if you were there, you know there has never been another place like it. Riverview. The amusement park, located near Belmont and Western in Chic...
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Departing conductor looks back on 51 years of opera in Chicago
Oct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Back in 1956, the 2-year-old Lyric Opera of Chicago desperately needed a replacement conductor for its scheduled production of Verdi's "Il Trovatore" and almost reluctan...
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Briefs: Run the tollwayOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - State officials are hosting a 5K veterans fundraiser with participants running, walking or biking down stretches of the new I-355 southern extension between Mokena and B...
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Judge tempers down Cook board showdownOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Cook County Criminal Court Presiding Judge Paul P. Biebel Jr. -- in an hour-and-a-half closed door session Wednesday -- appeared to diffuse a showdown between special pr...