Articles filed under Region
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Hyde Park Co-op grocery closes after 75 yearsJan 20, 2008 10:00 pm - After 75 years -- most of that as its neighborhood's only major supermarket -- the Hyde Park Co-op on Chicago's South Side finally closed yesterday. Several hundred form...
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Cosby talks positive parenting at MLK scholarship breakfastJan 20, 2008 10:00 pm - CHICAGO -- Comedian Bill Cosby says successful parents make it clear they want their children to succeed. He says that message wasn't there for people who are failing. ...
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Friends and relatives of missing Bolingbrook woman hold vigilJan 20, 2008 10:00 pm - Friends and family of missing Bolingbrook woman Stacy Peterson have held a candlelight vigil in honor of her 24th birthday. The mother of two disappeared in late October...
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Footlik has best chance to beat KirkJan 20, 2008 10:00 pm - The 10th Congressional District has been represented by a Republican in Congress for more than 50 years. Jay Footlik represents the best chance to change that. He is com...
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Does Clinton have a shot in Obama's state?Jan 20, 2008 10:00 pm - In the Northwest suburbs, a handful of Hillary Clinton supporters are planting the seeds for a campaign to win voters in what is largely considered Barack Obama country....
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Student who put his candidate in a song wants autograph, tooJan 19, 2008 10:00 pm - Hey there, Obama, this 12-year-old wants your autograph. But it's not just any old autograph he's seeking. Chaz got a detention for singing without his teacher's permi...
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Obama donates money linked to RezkoJan 19, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is giving charity more than $40,000 in past political contributions linked to Chicago real estate developer ...
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For president, Democrats: Barack ObamaJan 19, 2008 10:00 pm - Every long now and then, a transcendent figure arrives on the landscape of history. That, in sharpest essence, is Sen. Barack Obama and his politics of hope in the campa...
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Sawyer, Chicago's 2nd black mayor, dead at 73Jan 19, 2008 10:00 pm - Former Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer, who served only briefly but during a deeply divisive period in city politics in the late 1980s, has died. He was 73. Sawyer, the c...
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Emotions decide if learning happensJan 19, 2008 10:00 pm - This is my last comment on the issue of schools and teaching. Mr. Bill Bishop states that "Emotions obscure School Finance 101." While the Herald may have presented in a...