Articles filed under Region
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Mother of Drew Peterson says wife ran off, is 'ashamed'Nov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - The mother of a 53-year-old former police officer suspected in the disappearance of his 23-year-old wife is backing up her son's assertions that the woman ran off with a...
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Blagojevich presses ahead with health insurance initiativeNov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich is moving ahead with a multimillion-dollar health-care program, even after lawmakers refused to approve the money and the rules for i...
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Guilty plea in Chicago Medical School fund scandalNov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - Another player has fallen to the feds in a scam involving political powerbroker Stuart Levine and the former Chicago Medical School. John Glennon, who did bond work for ...
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Case of AIDS, secrets heads to Illinois supreme courtNov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Imagine the nightmare. Your son has AIDS. He brings home his fiancée to meet the family and you think she's great. But soon your son's health is deteriora...
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Newt's return sign of GOP's failuresNov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - Newt Gingrich has reared his ugly head again. You remember him, the former Republican speaker of the house, the man who got his terminally ill wife to sign their divorce...
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Lesbian ordained in Chicago churchNov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - A Lutheran church in Chicago has ordained a 27-year-old lesbian pastor who refuses to take a vow of celibacy, becoming the first to test a new resolution that gives bish...
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Search continues for missing 14-year-old Chicago girlNov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - Police are searching for a missing 14-year-old girl from Chicago's South Side who was last seen nearly a week ago. Deanna Glass is a straight-A student who disappeared T...
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Paging Mr. Orton, Mr. Kyle Orton …Nov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - Realistic bite: Playoffs? … Playoffs??!! Not this season, gang. High hopes bite: Yes, that was Cedric Benson scooting around right end for a 43-yard touchdown on...
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U.S. regulators join HIV transplant probeNov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has joined an investigation into how four Chicago transplant recipients contracted HIV and hepatitis C from a single organ...
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WFLD Channel 32 wins local Emmy for overall station excellenceNov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - WFLD Channel 32 won the local Emmy for overall station excellence Sunday, but in accepting the award reporter Larry Yellen promptly cracked a joke about host Jeff Garlin...