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  • Des Plaines company transformed into Blackhawks shrine

    Bille Marcum and his grandmother, Sandy, stand in their Chicago Blackhawks-themed office at Pro-Tech Roofing Co. in Des Plaines. The Marcum family converted the office into a shrine for their beloved Chicago ...

  • AMA Officially Classifies Obesity As A Disease

    CHICAGO (CBS) – The nation’s largest organization of doctors now considers obesity a disease. WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports, at a meeting in Chicago, the American Medical Association House of Delegates has voted to declare obesity a medical illness. Dr. Louis Aronne, director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill ...

  • Why The Spurs Must Win Game 7

    Last night, the San Antonio Spurs possibly choked away a championship. They led the Miami Heat by 5 points with 20 seconds to play and lost in OT. That’s a choke. You don’t blow 5 point leads with 20 seconds to play. You just can’t do that. Not with a title on the ...

  • Hahn Not Ready To Sell Off Sox

    (CBS) Despite a loss to the Twins on Tuesday night that came on the heels of losing three out of four the Astros, the White Sox are not sellers. Yet. Sitting in last place in the Central division, 9.5 games out of first place, White Sox general manager Rick Hahn said he’s not ready to dismantle his club as the trade deadline ...

  • Hundreds Of Heat Fans Head Home Miss Dramatic Game 6 Ending

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Movie Review

The Burning [DVD]

The Burning [DVD]

Everybody has to start somewhere, and for Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the independent producer/distributors who founded Miramax Pictures and helped reignite the fire of American independent cinema in the early 1990s, it was a cheap Friday the 13th-knockoff called The Burning. Pro ... ...

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  • Surfer Chemical Slicks Common On NW Indiana Beaches

    CHICAGO (CBS) – Environmental authorities in Indiana said preliminary results have found that an additive used in food and fertilizer and a metal cleaning agent were in the slick found on the lake this week. Someone who spends a lot of time on the lake doesn’t believe it was an isolated incident. "It's been a dirty week for Lake Michigan," said Basil Tydings, an East ...

  • LeBron Leads Heat To Game 6 OT Win

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  • Guardian Angels Patrol Blue Line Stop Near Scene Of Sexual Assault

    CHICAGO (CBS) – Members of the Guardian Angels were patrolling near a CTA Blue Line station on the Northwest Side on Wednesday, two days after a woman was sexually assaulted along a heavily-traveled walkway in the Mayfair neighborhood. Around 10 p.m. Monday, a 24-year-old woman was walking on a landscaped path that leads from the 4500 block of West Agatite Avenue to the 4500 block of West ...

  • Creative Control Chicago Hate Culture Kanye West’s ‘Yeezus’

    Yeezus , is stark, abrasive and combative. It is not "minimalist," even by Kanye standards; but after the grandiose orchestral production that ...

  • Park Ridge labor contract in dispute

    A month after Park Ridge aldermen reaffirmed a new contract with an employees' union, members are claiming its provisions are not being adhered to by the city.Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers said paychecks were hit with $68 more for health insurance co-payments since May 1, but new salary rates were not included as of that date.The contract had not been signed by ...

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