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  • Model of Suns magnetic field created

    Researchers at the Universities of Leeds and Chicago have reported that they have uncovered an important mechanism behind the generation of astrophysical magnetic fields such as that of the Sun. Scientists have known since the 18th century that the Sun regularly oscillates between periods of high and low solar activity in an 11-year cycle, but have been unable to fully explain how this cycle is ...

  • SHS teacher Chris Salituro to officiate ex-students wedding

    Nearly 13 years after Stevenson High School sociology teacher Chris Salituro paired students Matt Peota and Rikki Himmelfarb together for a project, the veteran teacher will officiate their wedding this Saturday. "He's the foundation of (our) relationship," Himmelfarb told the Daily ...

  • Gurnee wants deadbeats to pay $1.5 milllion in red-light camera violation fines

    Gurnee's red-light camera intersections include Hunt Club Road and Grand Avenue. The village is owed about $1.5 million in photo enforcement fines and has turned to a state agency's program for assistance to collect the ...

  • New Moraine Township supervisor settles in

    Anne Flanigan Bassi may be a politician, but that was never her goal in life.The former Lake County Commissioner recently moved into her next public role, as Moraine Township Supervisor. In an interview with the Tribune, she looked back at nearly three decades of public service.She traces her community involvement to one event. "When my kids were young and the park district at the time was ...

  • Orland officials try to less concerns at La Grange Rd meeting

    IDOT officials and area residents and business owners gather around a map of the La Grange Road widening project during a May 21 informational meeting at the Orland Park Civic ...


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Movie Review

Behind Enemy Lines

Director John Moore, an Irish-born veteran of the world of television commercials, makes his feature film debut with Behind Enemy Lines, a jingoistic adventure tale about a Navy fighter pilot trying to safely escape after being shot down over Bosnia. Moore has obviously spent a great deal of time studying the films of Michael Bay, Tony Scott, and other commercial-auteurs-turned-film-direct ... ...

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  • Two Shot Near Roosevelt CTA Station

    Police said, around 11:10 a.m., a 57-year-old man and a 30-year-old man were shot in the 1100 block of South State Street. The Roosevelt stops for the CTA’s Red, Green and Orange Line trains are about a block away. The Red Line station is a subway stop connected to the elevated station for the Green and Orange Lines. Both victims suffered graze wounds, police said. Both were taken to ...

  • Memorial Day Weekend Gas Prices Up From Last Year

    CHICAGO (CBS) – You’ll find gas prices averaging higher than they were a year ago at this time. In the Chicago area, the AAA says gasoline prices average $4.20 a gallon. According to Jack Gerard of the American Petroleum Institute, the national average price for gasoline is $3.65 a gallon, which is 55 cents a gallon less than the Chicago area. But, he said you can stretch your fuel ...

  • Cantankerous Critic ‘Fast Furious 6′ Is Audacious But Just Plain Dumb

    ';Fast & Furious 6″ is just as ludicrously implausible as its predecessors, with only a fraction of Fast Five's gonzo energy. It turns the international street racers of the earlier films into a cross between the gang from "Mission Impossible" and "The A-Team." So instead of chasing illegal thrills, they're chasing international terrorists through the ...

  • Chance the Rapper High Times and Wild Nights in Chicago

    Todd Diederich On an unseasonably warm Friday evening in May, minutes before facing the biggest hometown crowd of his young career, Chance the Rapper races a skateboard around the barren downtown-Chicago office space that's temporarily doubling as his dressing room. The 20-year-old rapper – dressed in a gray LDRS hoodie, black skinny jeans and mismatched plaid shoes – cracks ...

  • Pedestrian crossing closed at Lake Forest Metra stop

    Union Pacific Railroad recently closed the pedestrian crossing at the downtown Metra station in Lake Forest in an attempt to improve safety, according to railroad and city officials. Mark Davis, a Union Pacific spokesman, said an engineering team removed the crossing and extended over it the wire fence that runs between the two tracks May 18. He explained that railroad officials deemed it a ...

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