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  • Amid Violence Chicagoan Fights For Right To Bear Arms

    He's a hero to the National Rifle Association for fighting to overturn Chicago's ban on handguns and now he wants to be among the first in Chicago to carry a concealed weapons. 79-year-old Chicagoan Otis McDonald took on city hall and won, big time, in his own personal fight for his right to bear arms -- his way of trying to reduce the gun violence that plagues his and other ...

  • Four Keys For Bruins In Game 4 Of Stanley Cup Final

    BOSTON (CBS) — This just in: Winning a Stanley Cup is difficult. Most of the current Bruins roster knows that firsthand, as two years ago they had to erase 2-0 and 3-2 deficits against Vancouver. They, of course, did that, forcing a Game 7 in Vancouver and winning 4-0 to earn that title. This year, it’s too early to say whether or not their season will have the same end result, but ...

  • Kane County To Bury Cremated Remains Of 40 Unclaimed People Tomorrow

    (CBS) — The cremated remains of 40 people with no known family will be buried tomorrow in Kane County, reports WBBM’s Brandis ...

  • Hundreds Of Flood Victims Line Up For Food Aid

    CHICAGO (CBS) — Hundreds of people in flood-affected areas lined up outside a North Side state assistance agency on Wednesday to apply for food assistance. The Department of Human Services Family Community Resource Center, 4105 West Chicago Ave., began taking applicants on Monday. When word spread that all that was required to qualify for up to $370 per family in state food assistance ...

  • Cult of Hockey The Chicago Blackhawks claim to be losing money – but are they

    According to Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz and ChicagoBusiness.com, despite going to the Stanley Cup Finals in one of the league's best ...


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Scary Movie 2

It seems like only a year ago that I was writing a review of the Wayans Brothers' horror spoof Scary Movie. Oh, wait, it was a year ago. ...

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  • Chicago poised to enter top 10 globally in economic strength

    Chicago’s economic competitiveness is growing on the world stage, and it will ascend to one of the 10 top cities in the world by 2025, according to an analysis by the Economist. Chicago ranks second in the U.S. behind New York when measuring for factors including economic strength, financial maturity, environmental and natural hazards and harder to define metrics including global appeal, ...

  • Elbow Sprain To Keep Tiger Woods Out Until British Open

    (CBS) Tiger Woods’ sore left elbow will keep him out of competition until the British Open. Woods said Wednesday on his website that doctors found a strain in his left elbow and advised that he take a few weeks off for rest and treatment. That means he will miss the AT&T National next week at Congressional, where he is the defending champion. The tournament benefits the Tiger Woods ...

  • Photo Wrigley Field Replica Built Entirely Of Legos

    (CBS) Patienceand a steady hand. That’s what must have gone into creating this replica of Wrigley Field, built entirely of Legos. Nearly 60,000 carefully-placed bricks were used in this shrine to Wrigley Field, on display at the ';Big Leagues, Little Bricks'; exhibit at the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory from now through Labor ...

  • Union boss Karen Lewis blames rich white people for Chicagos education woes

    Rahm Emanuel ’s kitchen cabinet Tuesday, blaming racism and ';rich white people'; for why the city’s schools are in a fiscal crisis, ...

  • Chicago likely to reunite Toews and Kane in Game 4

    Chicago Blackhawks Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane watch their teammates skate during their final practice for the NHL Stanley Cup finals to be played against the Boston Bruins in Chicago, June 11, 2013. ...

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