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  • 9 Students Hospitalized After Being Pepper Sprayed At School

    CHICAGO (STMW) — Nine students at a Near North Side bilingual public elementary school were hospitalized Wednesday afternoon after a student accidentally discharged pepper spray. The student was apparently playing with a can of pepper spray when it went off about 3:20 p.m. at the Ruben Salazar Bilingual Center in the 100 block of West Wendell Street, authorities ...

  • Group Petitions Gary Mayor To Close Down Animal Shelter

    GARY, Ind. (CBS) — A group of animal lovers in Indiana are petitioning the Gary mayor to close down the local animal shelter. Charlene Swift of the Indiana Save a Dog Rescue started a petition on Change.org because she thinks the Gary animal control unit has had problems for ...

  • Trustee prods Kane to be business development hub

    If a business wants to relocate to Sugar Grove but the deal falls through, there is no one stepping in right away to refer that company to a comparable piece of land or vacant storefront in North Aurora or anywhere else in Kane County. "Each municipality is only interested in themselves," Sugar Grove Trustee Kevin Geary said. "There's no further referral to a neighboring ...

  • Body pulled from Lake Michigan is Chicago university student

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Authorities have identified a body pulled from Lake Michigan on Wednesday morning as a University of Chicago student who disappeared a week ago, possibly to watch a ...

  • Photos Quenneville’s ‘Stache Throughout The Years

    Over the better part of four decades (we assume), Quenneville’s ‘stache has been quietly – but prominently – resting above his upper lip. In 2010, Quenneville’swife Elizabeth had this to stay about her husband’s famous facial hair: ';Thank God I didn’t know him before the mustache,'; she told the Tribune. ';I’ve seen pictures of ...


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Movie Review

Thirteen Days [DVD]

Thirteen Days [DVD]

In a lean, tense two and a half hours, Roger Donaldson's Thirteen Days tells the story of the inner workings in the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis, one of the most severe political moments of the 20th century and likely the closest the world has ever come to engaging in actual nuclear exchange. The script by David Self condenses and dramatizes some 23 hours of recorded mee ... ...

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  • Albany Park Residents Fed Up With Potholes Not Getting Fixed

    CHICAGO (CBS) — Albany Park residents say that have been trying for months to get some potholes fixed. The problem got CBS 2's attention when a viewer wrote in saying: ';myself and other neighbors have been reporting potholes, cave-ins and impassable alleys and streets for over three years.'; CBS 2′s Derrick Blakley went Albany Park to check it out. Sometime, you ...

  • Chris Bosh calls out fans who left Game 6 early JUN 19

    Heat fans for leaving the game early when it appeared Miami had lost in regulation. "For all those guys who left, don't come back for Game 7," he said. "You can't get let back in after you leave. I know that. Hell, I've been to games. You can't leave a game and then come back. It doesn't make any sense; you left. It's not punishment, that's ...

  • Mt. Prospect OKs $1.75 million in flood-related sewer work

    This is an example of the damage wrought by flooding in the July 23, 2011, storm. Robert Zapfel spray-painted a sign to warn scavengers away from sewage-contaminated furniture he left alongside the road of his Mount Prospect residence on Emerson ...

  • Trustees Housing plan too dense for Vernon Hills

    The former Opa! restaurant in Vernon Hills is one of many restaurants that have failed at Lakeview Parkway and Hawthorn Parkway. A developer now is pitching plans for a residential development on the ...

  • Deen Says She Used Racial Slur But Doesn’t Tolerate Hate

    SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Celebrity cook Paula Deen says she has used racial slurs in the past but insists she and her brother, who are accused of racial and sexual discrimination in a lawsuit by a former manager of their restaurant, don’t tolerate hateful behavior. In a court deposition filed Monday in federal court, an attorney for former restaurant manager Lisa Jackson presses the ...

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