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North Suburban Teacher Resigns In Emotional Youtube Video
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (CBS) – A north suburban teacher gives new meaning to the term ';burning your bridges behind you,'; as she resigns on a YouTube video decrying a shift towards ';Teaching to the ...
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The List Chicago Schools To Be Closed
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Chicago School Board voted to close 49 underutilized or underperforming elementary schools on Wednesday as part of a plan to close a $1 billion budget deficit. Here is the list: Altgeld Elementary School, 1340 W. 71st St. Armstrong Elementary Math and Science, 5345 W. Congress Pkwy. Attucks Elementary School, 5055 S. State St. Banneker Elementary School, 6656 S. ...
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Bears Release Statement On Urlacher’s Retirement
Brian announced his retirement in the same, understated way in which he carried himself at Halas Hall the last 13 years - he simply wanted to be one of the guys and play the game he loves. But his rare ability, work ethic and passion for football put him among the greats to ever play the game. Besides superlative play on the field, he was also the unquestioned leader in the locker room, as well ...
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Big Ten baseball Gophers beat Illinois in tournament opener
Minnesota's Andy Henkemeyer reacts after hitting a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth inning, scoring Troy Larson, to lift Minnesota to a 3-2 victory over Illinois in the opening game of the Big Ten Conference baseball tournament Wednesday Target Field in Minneapolis, Minn., on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (Pioneer Press: Ben ...
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Mike Krzyzewski returning to coach U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team
Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski coaches his team during their NCAA men's basketball game against Michigan State in New York November 15, 2011. (MIKE ...
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Bill raising speed limit goes to governor
Tweet Widget SPRINGFIELD -- The speed limit on most interstate highways in downstate Illinois would increase to 70 mph under legislation approved Wednesday by the Illinois House. The ...
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Jose Canseco accused of sexual assault in Vegas
LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas police are investigating a woman's allegations that former baseball player Jose Canseco Jr. sexually assaulted her. Officer Bill Cassell said Wednesday that the 48-year-old Canseco was named as a suspect in the investigation. Cassell says the investigation isn't complete, no charges have been filed and no arrest has been made. The department spokesman ...
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Illinois Senate approves sex education bill
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A proposal that revamps sex education in Illinois public schools to include information about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases has cleared the state ...
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The Today Show Takes On Chicago
Willie Geist and Natalie Morales got a taste of Chicago Wednesday, hosting The Today Show from Millenium Park. The entire team was originally scheduled to be in Chicago, but the Oklahoma tornadoes led to a scaled-down ...
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Chicago Jesuit province makes record settlement in abuse lawsuit
The Chicago province of the Society of Jesus has agreed to pay nearly $20 million to settle a lawsuit brought by men who were sexually abused by Donald McGuire, a former Jesuit who has been dismissed from the order and from the priesthood. The plaintiffs showed that Jesuit superiors had been aware of McGuire's record of molestation for decades, but took no effective action to curb his ...
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Vote on Chicago school closings draws angry aldermen parents
Closing Chicago schoolsDozens of protesters take to the streets to rally against Chicago public school closings, outside the Chicago Public Schools ...
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Naperville extends downtown food cart permits
Two food cart vendors can continue cooking for people on the go in downtown Naperville at least until the end of the year. After that point, city officials will take another look at the program to determine what improvements need to be made if it is going to continue. "Stuff does take awhile to get fine-tuned and maybe assuming that you … have a real good year and there's no ...
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Angelo On Urlacher ‘The Quintessential Team Player’
(WSCR) If you want to get a good look at the type of person and player Brian Urlacher really was, look no further than former Bears general manager Jerry Angelo. Though Angelo didn’t draft Urlacher, he joined the Bears following No. 54′s rookie season. In the wake of Urlacher’s official retirement, Angelo joined The Boers and Bernstein Show to talk about the kind of person ...
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Cubs Send Camp To DL
The Tribune reports Camp was treated for the injury Sunday before telling the team he couldn’t pitch through it. Initially, the club opted to designated reliever Michael Bowden for assignment instead of putting Camp on the disabled list. After the condition worsened, however, the Cubs elected to officially move Camp to the ...
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Doyel We’ll Remember Sergio Garcia As A Racist
m So this is how we’ll remember Sergio Garcia. Not as the great golfer, because he’s never quite been that. Not as the head case, though he definitely has been that. Not even as the whiner, the moaner, the guy who complains about every little thing and even spits into the damn hole in the middle of a round. Those are parts of his character, part of who he is, but that’s not ...
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Coach K returning to Team USA MAY 22
02:53 PM ET 05.22 | USA Basketball has its head coach for the 2016 Summer Olympics, and it's a familiar face. Duke Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski will return to his old role with Team USA for the next Olympic cycle, hopefully leading the Americans to a third consecutive gold medal in Rio De Janeiro roughly three years from now. Coach K announced his plans to leave the program this winter ...
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Pistons could draft another big man MAY 22
Pistons may have two of the most talented young big men in the entire NBA, but that doesn't mean GM Joe Dumars will avoid similar players in next month's NBA Draft. With ...
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Ill. General Assembly overrides Smart Grid veto
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The Illinois General Assembly has overridden Gov. Pat Quinn's veto of legislation that addresses so-called Smart Grid ...
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Meg Makes Researching DIY storage beds the kind with built-in drawers
Tweet Widget I write a lot in this blog about DIY solutions for various problems, including living in a tiny house. What I don't usually write about are the failures: ...
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Grading the Bulls Rip Hamilton
Rip Hamilton was brought to Chicago as an answer to the Bulls' shooting guard woes, but injury woes over the past two seasons derailed any hope of ...
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How Blackhawks Have Fared After Consecutive Losses
DETROIT, MI - MAY 20: Andrew Shaw #65 of the Chicago Blackhawks tries to control the puck next to Joakim Andersson #63 of the Detroit Red Wings during the second period in Game Three of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Joe Louis Arena on May 20, 2013 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty ...
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Opinion George Ryan Memoir Not A Likely Bestseller
-- an appearance any author would covet. Blagojevich reportedly received a six-figure advance from Phoenix Books, but The Governor never made the bestseller lists. The millions who enjoyed gawking at Blagojevich’s imbecilities on Celebrity Apprentice or at Jason Sudeikis’s Saturday Night ...
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Chicago home sales prices improve
More than 9,000 previously owned homes were sold in the Chicago area in April, another strong month for sales volume that was met by more pricing recovery.The Illinois Association of Realtors reported Wednesday that 9,152 single-family homes and condominiums sold in the nine-county Chicago area last month, at a median price of $173,000. That compares with sales volume of 6,977 homes and a median ...
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Tinley settles overtime lawsuit with cop for $40000
The Village of Tinley Park has settled a federal lawsuit filed by the village's K-9 handler in 2011, court records show.The village of Tinley Park has settled a federal lawsuit filed by the village's K-9 handler in 2011, court records show.Tinley Park agreed to pay K-9 officer Bob Diorio $40,000 to settle the lawsuit, according to the confidential settlement agreement obtained via ...
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Illinois pays down bills but backlog could rise again in August
CHICAGO | Wed May 22, 2013 2:55pm EDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - Higher-than-expected revenue from state income tax enabled Illinois to reduce its unpaid bills to $5.8 billion from $8.5 billion at the beginning of April, the state comptroller said on Wednesday while cautioning the improvement could be short lived. "Illinois is the only state in the nation where $5.8 billion in unpaid bills ...
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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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