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Sale scratched from start due to shoulder tendinitis
Email CHICAGO -- White Sox ace Chris Sale was scratched from his scheduled start in Wednesday's series finale against the Red Sox as a precautionary measure due to mild tendinitis in his left posterior shoulder. Left-hander Hector Santiago will pitch on three days' rest in Sale's place. Santiago lasted only 3 1/3 innings against the Angels on Saturday, surrendering three earned ...
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Big Hurt to represent Sox at Draft
Email CHICAGO -- Five-time All-Star and two-time American League MVP Frank Thomas will represent the White Sox at the First-Year Player Draft on June 6. Thomas will join two other MVPs, three World Series-winning managers and another 24 All-Stars as representatives for baseball's 30 teams. White Sox manager of youth baseball initiatives Kevin Coe will join Thomas in Secaucus, N.J., where ...
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Mayor Not Concerned About Political Fallout from CPS Closures
The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday is set to vote on a proposal to shutter more than 50 Chicago schools. It's a plan that's got many teachers, parents and their supporters in an uproar but one the mayor says needs to be done. Mary Ann Ahern ...
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Police Man Killed In Jump From Gold Coast Building
CHICAGO (STMW) — A man jumped to his death early Tuesday from the Gold Coast high-rise building where he lived, authorities said. Police responded about 1 a.m. to the 0 to 100 block of East Chestnut Street and found that a man had jumped from the 32nd Floor, police News Affairs Officer Joshua Purkiss ...
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Former Elgin Deputy Police Chief Charged With ID Theft
ST. CHARLES, Ill. (STMW) – Elgin's former deputy police chief was indicted Tuesday for illegally accessing emails and using police resources for personal research. A Kane County grand jury indicted Robert Beeter, 51, of Elgin, on 16 counts of felony identity theft and four counts of official misconduct, according to a statement from the Kane County State's Attorney's ...
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Boy 17 Fatally Shot In Back Of The Yards
CHICAGO (STMW) – A teenage boy was fatally shot in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood Tuesday evening, police said. Police responded to the intersection of 43rd Street and Paulina Avenue about 5:20 p.m. and found the 17-year-old unresponsive, police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines ...
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Stan Van Gundy doesnt plan to coach in 2013 MAY 21
Orlando Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy has pulled himself out of consideration. Van Gundy, in an interview with 1080 The Team in Orlando, plainly stated that he would not be an NBA coach in 2013-2014. This announcement came on the heels of a report by Yahoo!'s Adrian Wojanarowski that placed Van Gundy as "unlikely" to coach next season, but on the heels of interviews with ...
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Cubs prioritize Vitters development over Stewart
Ian Stewart was projected as the Cubs' regular third baseman for 2013 before he was injured in Spring Training, and he is now playing for Triple-A Iowa. However, Stewart is not high on the organization's depth chart at third base. According to Stewart, president of baseball operations Theo Epstein told him that Josh Vitters, the team's No. 1 Draft pick in 2007, would be getting ...
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Wilmette School Claims Record For Most Twins In Single Grade
WILMETTE, Ill. (CBS) — Teachers, students and staff at a Wilmette school are seeing double, and with good reason. The fifth grade at the Highcrest Middle School is claiming the world record for the most twins in one grade of a single ...
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Reinsdorf Says He Won’t Be Selling Sox Anytime Soon
(CBS) — In an interview with the Sports Business Journal, White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdaorf said that he has no immediate plans to sell the team and plans, saying he plans to be at the ballpark for the 2033 MLB All-Star Game. In a statement by the White Sox, Reinsdorf, 77, said he recommends the Sox go up for sale when he dies, but acknowledges that it won’t be his decision to make. ...
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Police Man Touches Woman’s Leg At South Loop CTA Station
The suspect is described as a 20- to 30-year-old Asian man with a medium build and short black hair, police said. He wore glasses, blue jeans and carried a backpack.(Credit: Police News ...
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Briggs On Bears’ Turnover ‘I Miss Everybody’
HALAS HALL (CBS) Bears linebacker Lance Briggs is still getting used to life without his old buddies. Brian Urlacher is gone. Israel Idonije is gone. Lovie Smith and Rod Marinelli are gone. ';I miss everybody, you guys,'; Briggs said Tuesday when asked specifically about Idonije. ';I miss everybody.'; Briggs hasn’t said much publicly since Smith was fired and Marc ...
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UI Extension to move Onarga office next door
Tweet Widget ONARGA -- It did not take long for the University of Illinois Extension to find another building to rent for use as its new Onarga office. The Extension, facing a June 30 deadline to move out of its current office at 912 W. Seminary Ave. in Onarga, has been offered the use of a building directly next door, officials said this week. The Extension is now in the process of ...
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Testimony conflicts in bank robbery trial
Tweet Widget URBANA -- Two men who were involved in Champaign bank robberies last spring with a third man told different stories to a Champaign County jury Tuesday about that third man's involvement. Ronald Wilkerson, 44, whose last known address was in the 1500 block of Honeysuckle Lane, Champaign, is charged with two counts of armed robbery for the May 8, 2012, holdup of the Central ...
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Trial begins of man in 2006 slaying at Burger King
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) -- Lake County prosecutors say a man charged in the 2006 strangling death of a Lindenhurst restaurant manager committed the crime because he could and wanted ...
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Clinton Illinois should legalize gay marriage
In a statement Tuesday, Clinton says Illinois "has stood for the proposition that all citizens should be treated equally under the law" since the days of Abraham ...
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State Poison Control Center In Jeopardy Of Closing
(CBS) – Every year, the Illinois Poison Control Center handles nearly 82,000 poison related cases. Nearly half of them involve children. Dr. Michael Wahl says each year, they lose more funding. ';We’re actually running a loss right now. We are losing at about a half a million dollars a year. We are looking at closure in 2014 unless we can increase revenue somewhere,'; said ...
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Dow Jones industrial average posts 22nd high of the year
Federal Reserve presidents and sent the Dow Jones industrial average to its 22nd high of the year Tuesday. Regional Fed Presidents James Bullard ...
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LeBron James Just call him THE FLOPPER... MAY 21
I just realized that in all the time you blab away on here, you hardly(if ever), do a thread on the Spurs you claim to support..You are too busy hanging on Lebron, Kobe or Tebow's jockstraps to actually say something insightful on your team.Do you even know their roster...? Ohthere you go to google ...
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Plea in federal case brings $1 million in restitution back taxes
Tweet Widget URBANA -- A Mansfield man who admitted stealing from his employer for years will have to pay more than $1 million in restitution and back taxes. Neal Freeman, 59, had worked for Champaign Builders Supply at 30 E. John St., C, for more than 30 years when his theft was uncovered in early 2011 by the late owner's daughter. Freeman pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in ...
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Police seek help in Danville shootings
Tweet Widget DANVILLE -- Danville police are asking the public for help in solving a shooting early Tuesday morning on the city's east side that left a Chicago woman dead and injured two men. Vermilion County Coroner Peggy Johnson identified the woman as 21-year-old Latifah D. L. Cross. Preliminary autopsy results show Ms. Cross died of a single gunshot wound. Danville police do not have ...
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Firefighters return to scene of Monday fire
Tweet Widget UPDATED 4:30 p.m. Tuesday CHAMPAIGN -- Champaign firefighters have returned to the scene of a Monday house fire after smoke was reported coming from a roof. According to a fire department report, firefighters were called to a home at 1708 W. Kirby Avenue just before 4 p.m. Tuesday when smoke emerged after somebody opened up the roof of the house. Firefighters were called to the ...
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Rescued bobcat kittens at UI clinic
Tweet Widget URBANA -- For a pair of bobcat kittens, home may have once been a freight train car. But now they're orphans, possibly because the train left without their mom aboard. The two female bobcat kittens, believed to be between six and eight weeks old, were discovered Friday in a train car in the Tuscola area, said Nicki Rosenhagen, a veterinary student and ward manager at the ...
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Plea in robbery brings probation
Tweet Widget URBANA -- A Champaign man who admitted robbing a convenience store clerk earlier this year has been sentenced to 30 months of probation. Christopher Wilson, 19, who listed an address in the 1600 block of West Bradley Avenue, pleaded guilty before Judge Tom Difanis on Monday to robbery, admitting that on Jan. 6, he took money from a clerk at the Circle K, 1101 N. Prospect Ave., C. ...
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Health boards action taken after apparently illegal closed meeting
Tweet Widget WATSEKA -- The Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department's administrator is not saying whether he plans to contest action taken this week by the board of health following an apparently illegal closed meeting. Iroquois County State's Attorney Jim Devine, who also serves as the health department's legal counsel, acknowledged after Monday's meeting that the board of ...
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Thorne Miniature Rooms go fictional
If you live in Chicago and do not know about the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, then you must have been living under the proverbial rock before you came across this article.
The Thorne rooms are one of the most famous museum exhibits in the city. They are a collection of 68 rooms contained within glass boxes and are notable because each room is constructed at a 1-inch to 1-foot scale and all 68 rooms together display a range of historical periods from various cultures. Read more
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