Articles filed under Chicago
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Effort to honor famed author Saul Bellow stalled by his racial commentsOct 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 parkOct 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 ChicagoOct 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...
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Man charged in 1977 murder could be tried as juvenileOct 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Prosecutors are trying to persuade a Cook County judge to transfer the case of a 46-year-old man charged in a murder committed 30 years ago from juvenile court into adul...
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FBI investigating double commuter train derailmentOct 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Federal officials investigated two rush-hour commuter train derailments that occurred within an hour and a half of each other on separate tracks near the same station, a...
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Prosecutors outline plot as new terror trial startsOct 02, 2007 11:00 pm - MIAMI -- Seven men intended to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI buildings to ignite a guerrilla war that would overthrow the U.S. government and allow an Islam...
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Channel 2 leads all stations in local Emmy nominationsOct 02, 2007 11:00 pm - WBBM Channel 2 led all stations when local Emmy Award nominations were announced Tuesday. Channel 2 had 44 nominations. WMAQ Channel 5 followed with 37, WGN Channel 9 cl...
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Briefs: Midway skid a pilot errorOct 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Pilot error was a major contributor to a fatal accident at Chicago's Midway Airport during which a Southwest Airlines jet skidded through a barrier and hit several cars,...