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  • Chicago Executive Airport manager taking health leave

    Dennis Rouleau, center, manager of Chicago Executive Airport, talks with Wheeling Village Manager Jon Sfondilis, left, and Jamie Abbott, assistant airport manager, at an event earlier this year. Abbott is taking over as acting manager while Rouleau is going on medical ...

  • Cubs search for closer among pitching staff

    Email ST. LOUIS -- Blake Parker totaled seven saves at Triple-A Iowa before he was called up to the Cubs. Although the right-hander doesn't have a save opportunity this season with the big league team, that experience at Iowa may pay off down the road. "It's a funny business, closing [games]," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said. "First of all, you have to find somebody who ...

  • Castro remains only player to start every game

    Email ST. LOUIS -- With Anthony Rizzo sitting on Tuesday for the first time this season, the only Cubs player who has started every game is shortstop Starlin Castro. Manager Dale Sveum was thinking about giving Castro a breather last week, but not now. "It's one of those things you kind of think about but don't do," Sveum said. "If it continues, or whatever, it might be ...

  • Rizzo gets breather for first time this season

    Email ST. LOUIS -- On Tuesday, Game No. 69 of the season, Anthony Rizzo rested. The Cubs first baseman, who had started every game this season, was not in the starting lineup Tuesday against the Cardinals. "It's nice to get a breather," said Rizzo, who was batting .157 this month with two extra-base hits. Rizzo hasn't homered since May 18, and he's 3-for-14 in the ...

  • Oak Lawn Police Seek Man In Stabbing

    OAK LAWN, Ill. (STMW) — Police are looking for a resident who stabbed another resident Monday night after a confrontation in an alley in southwest suburban Oak Lawn, police said. The 35-year-old victim was riding his bicycle through the alley near 97th Street and Ridgeland Avenue in Oak Lawn about 10 p.m. when he exchanged words with a boy younger than 14 who was setting off fireworks, ...


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Movie Review

The Other Sister

If you happen to make the unfortunate decision to see "The Other Sister," which should be subtitled "Or, How Shallow Rich People Deal With Their Mentally Retarded Daughter," do yourself the favor of leaving after the first hour. This is a film that starts off on questionable grounds, quickly reaches a low plateau of mere watchability, and then willfully plummets headlong into patent absurdity and ... ...

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  • Lost Palatine Golden retriever back home

    Bailee, the golden retriever believed to be stolen after wandering from her family's Palatine-area home on Saturday, has been reunited with her owner. Mike Gerdes said a woman called him Tuesday afternoon after seeing the Daily Herald article and brought Bailee to his house shortly after. She was groomed and in good health. Gerdes, who wasn't home at the time, said he doesn't ...

  • Video Hilarious LeBron James Flopping Parody

    James said . "I play an aggressive game. I don't flop. I've never been one of those guys." Check out thehilariousflopping parody of James ...

  • LeBrons new shoe proclaims hes a 2-Time Champion JUN 18

    Heat have already won the series and proclaim as much inside the shoe. If we're getting super technical here, LeBron's second title mentioned in the shoe could be his one of the State Championship he won in high school or it could be referring to the two gold medals he has from winning with Team USA in Beijing in 2008 and again in London in 2012. Then again, we may also all be getting ...

  • DuPage forest district abandons pursuit of Country Lakes

    DuPage County Forest Preserve officials ended a nearly 15-year legal battle Tuesday when they walked away from a property they still very much want to own. Commissioners voted unanimously to abandon efforts to forcibly acquire the 204-acre Country Lakes Country Club in northwest ...

  • Historic Campton town hall open house planned for Saturday

    The original Campton Township Town Hall was built in 1874 and is on the Kane County and National Register of Historic Places. It was renovated through a riverboat grant in 2011 and will be used for educational purposes. An open house will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at 4N498 Town Hall Road, Campton ...

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