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  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 23

    Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Chicago Cubs: 1. ...

  • Blackhawks Look To Break Howard In Game 4

    DETROIT (AP) Jimmy Howard’s cat-quick reflexes in net and easygoing nature out of it are big reasons the Detroit Red Wings are on a roll. Howard has held top-seeded Chicago to only one goal in two straight games, lifting seventh-seeded Detroit to a 2-1 series lead. He was the star of the end-to-end, high-paced Game 3 the Red Wings won 4-1 on Monday night, when he became their first goalie ...

  • Wisch Five Chicago Athletes Who Didn’t Go Out Like Urlacher

    (CBS) Some athletes just belong in certain uniforms. Derek Jeter is a New York Yankee. Kobe Bryant is a Los Angeles Laker. Tom Brady is a New England Patriot. And Brian Urlacher? He was a Chicago Bear. And now, mercifully, he always will be. On Wednesday after officially announcing his retirement from the NFL, Chicago's soon-to-be 35-year-old former linebacker told the Dan Patrick Show, ...

  • One Hurt In Extra-Alarm Blaze In Abandoned Lawndale Building

    Chicago firefighters respond to an extra-alarm blaze in an abandoned building at 1433 S. Kenneth Ave. on Thursday. (Credit: Chicago Fire ...

  • Knicks top scoring threats still hurting MAY 23

    stop it jgb ..anthony was out for over a week...they sent him home from that west coast trip, and then he missed a few games on the subsequent home stand...if he would have had it done the Knicks would have lost anyway, just with ...


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Movie Review

Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy

"Midnight Cowboy" is many things: an astute character study, a buddy picture, a human comedy, a stark drama, and an honest and straightforward depiction of the seedy world of male prostitution in New York. What is most amazing about the film is its refusal to age. It won the Best Picture Oscar in 1969, but viewing it twenty-five years later seems to have done nothing to undermine its impact. It is ... ...

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  • Brian Urlacher No athlete since Michael Jordan symbolized Chicago more

    Chicago middle linebacker Brian Urlacher watches from the sideline during the second half of their Oct. 7 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File) CHICAGO -- Whenever Brian Urlacher does something to confirm he hates attention as much as he loves football -- grunt through a news conference, breeze by adoring fans, retire via Twitter -- my ...

  • 49 Chicago schools to close

    The Chicago Board of Education has voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer 27,000 students to new classrooms, officials said. Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Barbara Byrd-Bennett gave four other schools, which were scheduled for closing, a last-minute reprieve. Wednesday's vote came after months of arguments over ...

  • Gang Member Gets 25 Years For Double Homicide In Griffith

    HAMMOND, Ind. (STMW) – A Latin Kings street gang member will serve 25 years in prison in connection with his part in the double homicide outside a Griffith restaurant in February 2007. The sentence is five years less than Jason Ortiz's co-defendant Martin Anaya received earlier Thursday at his sentencing hearing at the U.S. District Court in Hammond. Both men were sentenced in ...

  • Census Data Chicago Slowest Growing Big City In U.S.

    CHICAGO (CBS) – Chicago gained nearly 10,000 people from July 2011 to July 2012, but was the slowest-growing major city in the country according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday. It was the second year in a row that population grew here, but the increase so far shows no signs of making up for the loss of 200,000 people over the previous decade, according to a report in ...

  • Chicago Man Shot And Killed In Calumet City

    CALUMET CITY, Ill. (STMW) – A 35-year-old South Side man was shot to death in south suburban Calumet City early Thursday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's ...

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