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  • Chicago man crushes Ferris Wheel ride world record

    A man from Chicago rode Ferris Wheel for more than two days - 384 times, up and around - to break the existing world record. Clinton Shepherd, a park operations manager of Chicago's Navy Pier, who spent 48 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds riding Navy Pier's Ferris wheel over the weekend, said that he thought that Chicago - birthplace of the ride - should have the title, People magazine ...

  • Silverman Toews May Have Company But It’s Time To End His Slump

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  • Deadly Oklahoma Tornado Serves As Reminder To Prepare For Disasters

    Carlos and Kim Caudillo stand in the debris of their home after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The tornado, reported to be at least EF4 strength and two miles wide, touched down in the Oklahoma City area on Monday killing at least 51 people. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty ...

  • DeVry chairman stepping down in November

    Harold Shapiro, former president of Princeton University and Michigan University. The chairman of DeVry Inc. said he would not stand for re-election at the educational firms next annual meeting of shareholders in November. Harold Shapiro, Downers Grove-based DeVrys (NYSE: DV) chairman since 2008, and a former president of the University of Michigan from 1980 to 1988, intends to retire at that ...

  • Ofman It’s Time For Replay In Baseball

    Major League Baseball is considering replay for every call except balls and strikes and you know that will fester its way into the game one day soon. The NFL looks at just about everything except plays in which Jay Cutler sneers at fellow teammates. Thank goodness it's not an infraction though someone in the rules committee with an axe to grind will probably suggest sneering become a ...


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Movie Review

Derailed

Derailed

Part Hitchcockian exercise in ruthless wrong man at the wrong time tension and part pseudo-film noir, Derailed tells the story of a beleaguered suburban father/husband who makes one fatally bad decision and then spends the rest of the movie suffering for it. Because his bad decis ... ...

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  • Lightning Strikes Damage Two Homes Overnight

    CHICAGO (CBS) – At least two homes in the Chicago area were struck by lightning overnight as heavy thunderstorms plowed through the region. CBS 2's Susanna Song reports strong winds, heavy rain, thunder, and lightning made for a very disruptive night in the Chicago area. Early Tuesday, the Cook County Board Up service was in the Little Village neighborhood, where at least one home ...

  • Four Teens Wounded In Austin Shooting

    CHICAGO (STMW) – Four people were hurt in a gang-related shooting after large groups of teenagers started fighting in the street Monday night in the West Side Austin neighborhood. About 9:30 p.m., someone in a light-colored sedan drove by the fight in the 5300 block of West Iowa Street and opened fire, police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro ...

  • Alleged Mugger Crashes Stolen Car Into Semi On I-80

    JOLIET, Ill. (STMW) – Police say a Joliet man mugged two elderly women in different grocery stores before crashing a stolen car into a semi-truck on Saturday. Joliet Cmdr. Al Roechner said Matthew J. Boban's crime spree began at 11:55 a.m. when he arrived at Jewel, 1401 W. Jefferson St. Boban allegedly had asked a 32-year-old friend to bring him and his girlfriend to an ATM so he ...

  • Police Seek Help Identifying Female Homicide Victim

    CHICAGO (STMW) – Police are asking for help to identify the body of woman or teen girl found strangled and badly burned in a Northwest Side Avondale neighborhood Dumpster Sunday night. Firefighters found the charred body after putting out a Dumpster blaze in an alley in the 3100 block of North Kimball Avenue about 11:05 p.m. An autopsy Monday found the person was strangled, and ruled the ...

  • Chicago Red Cross Joining Tornado Relief Effort In Oklahoma

    People assess the damage after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The tornado, reported to be at least EF4 strength and two miles wide, touched down in the Oklahoma City area on Monday killing at least 51 people. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty ...

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