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Police check the truck parked in a vacant lot in Englewood where a Canadian man was shot and killed during a apparent robbery attempt. (Mike Tercha, Chicago Tribune) A Canadian truck driver in town visiting relatives was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, authorities said. Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled a new budget that doesn't include tax or fee hikes, but warns about a looming government worker pension crisis. Bill Jauss was a renaissance reporter, a pioneering sports journalist whose enthusiastic manner encompassed newspapers, radio and TV long before that media trifecta became more common in recent decades. |
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Solving a Picasso mysteryA partnership between the Art Institute and Argonne National Laboratory produced an answer to a heated topic that has vexed the art world for decades. Schmich: Words can date you — and so can snacks"As I strolled through the office, a much younger colleague approached me, paused and fixed her eyes on my little candy bag. 'You're eating M&Ms;?' she said. 'Nobody eats M&Ms; anymore.' They don't?" |
RTA resolves transit funding fightThe Regional Transportation Authority board today approved a measure that resolves a contentious fight among the CTA, Metra and Pace over divvying up a pot of transit funds. EADS, BAE call off world's biggest arms mergerEADS and BAE Systems will not extend their merger talks later on Wednesday, calling an end - for now - to a plan to create the world's largest defence and aerospace group. Looking back on 50 years of James Bond moviesThe debonair fictional secret agent turns 50 (that is in movie years). Time for some Bond film history. In honor of our favorite spy, we take a look back at his most popular outings. Page: Preferences? What preferences?Is the U.S. Supreme Court's doomsday clock ticking for racial preferences? Maybe, but states that already ban race-based admissions show how you can build diversity by other means. Odds and ends about EpcotWhen I close my eyes, I see a geodesic dome made of thousands of triangular pieces. It appears to hover. On the huntAs the pursuit of wild fish and game grows, so does the desire to prepare it in a delicious way. 'Better' neighborhood a mixed blessing for youthMoving to a more prosperous neighborhood may help some girls from poor areas feel less distressed, but could harm some boys, a new study suggests. Ex-anchor lists Roscoe Village houseFormer WFLD-Ch. 32 news anchor Jan Jeffcoat, who left the station in July after five years, has listed her three-bedroom, single-family house in Roscoe Village for $775,000. |
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