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Florio Trestman Needs To Be Careful With Expectations
(CBS) The Bears have yet to play a single down under Marc Trestman, but the new head coach is certainly pleased with what his team has accomplished thus ...
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Baffoe Your Rape Joke Isn’t Funny
(CBS) ALS jokes. Victim blaming. Rape and sports comparisons. It's been some week. And it's only Hump Day. (See, I used Hump Day instead of Wednesday so that for a split second the record in your head would skip. And you went one of two ways with that. You either a) let the briefly-created image pass and acknowledged that the double entendre wasn't very funny or b) found the word ...
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Automakers Finding Many Customers Now Appreciate Simplicity
DEARBORN, MI (WWJ) – After years of putting more and more features on computer screens, car companies are finding out that customers like to ';keep it simple.'; Ford says it will soon start adding old fashioned buttons and knobs to its audio systems. This comes as the company takes a closer look at some of the customer complaints involving ';MyFord Touch.'; The word ...
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Enter To Win The Ultimate Chicago Wrigleyville Experience
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Road Test 2013 Toyota Avalon
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – It looks like Toyota may have finally figured out a way to make the Avalon, well, cool. In previous incarnations of Toyota’s take on the big American family car, Toyota put in a lot of functionality, a lot of value and a lot of reliability — and that’s all well and good — but you gotta bring style and soul to the table if you want to go up ...
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Man Charged With Sex Trafficking For Second Time In Cook County
CHICAGO (STMW) – A man previously convicted of sex trafficking in Cook County has been charged again, this time for allegedly kidnapping a Minnesota woman and bringing her to Chicago to work in the sex trade. Myrelle Lockett, 20, is charged with felony counts of aggravated trafficking in persons, involuntary servitude and kidnapping, according to a statement from the Cook County ...
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Bernstein Wade’s Selfishness Nearly Sinks Heat
(CBS) The worst possible reason to take a shot is because you think it's about time you did. The NBA is full of such "my turn" guys, who are usually found on teams somewhere between middling and miserable. They fill up the regular-season box scores, make a more-than-comfortable living, and are often the ones in the postgame locker room looking at the stat sheet while others ...
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VIDEO The LeBron James Headband Game
James lost his signature accessory with just over 9 minutes left in the fourth quarter, got a dunk on that very play and never replaced the headband the rest of the way. He finished with 32 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, and the Heat rallied from a 13-point second-half deficit to beat the San Antonio Spurs 103-100 in overtime in Game 6 of the NBA ...
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The Good Ol’ Days When Gas Was 93 Cents Per Gallon
ATLANTA (WAOK) – When I started driving, gas was 93 cents per gallon. I could fill my tank with $10 and have change for chips and a drink. Today, $10 will get you to the next gas station. The national average for a gallon of gas today is $3.62 per gallon. Help is on the way…or is it? Automobile manufacturers and our government are looking for ways to make the automobile more fuel ...
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Coach Q Quiet On Hossa Injury
BOSTON (AP) -- Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville didn’t want to talk about the injury that forced him to scratch forward Marian Hossa from the Stanley Cup finals against the Boston Bruins. And why not? ';I think that’s self-explanatory,'; Quenneville said, once again declining to explain the secrecy that is as much a part of the NHL culture as playoff beards and ...
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Sporty New Corolla Aimed At Youthful Buyers
DETROIT (AP) – Toyota is giving the Corolla a sportier look and more gadgets, a recognition by the world’s biggest automaker that the under-50 crowd wants more than just reliability in a compact car. The world’s largest automaker rolled out the 2014 version of America’s top-selling compact Thursday night at a splashy event in Santa Monica, Calif., hoping to shed the old ...
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Police Search Home Of Patriots’ Aaron Hernandez In Possible Homicide
NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- State and local police spent hours at the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Tuesday night as another group of officers searched an industrial park about a mile away where a body was discovered the day before. Police at the scene and prosecutors would not comment on the actions while Sports Illustrated, citing an unidentified source, ...
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Wisch Does Lunt Make Beckman’s Job Status More Secure
(CBS) Since midway through Ron Zook's final season, the University of Illinois football team has enjoyed about as much good news as it's enjoyed victories. In other words, next to none. But on Monday, the moribund Illini program got its biggest win in quite some time when rocket-armed Oklahoma State quarterback Wes Lunt announced that he was transferring from Stillwater to Champaign, ...
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Des Plaines company transformed into Blackhawks shrine
Bille Marcum and his grandmother, Sandy, stand in their Chicago Blackhawks-themed office at Pro-Tech Roofing Co. in Des Plaines. The Marcum family converted the office into a shrine for their beloved Chicago ...
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AMA Officially Classifies Obesity As A Disease
CHICAGO (CBS) – The nation’s largest organization of doctors now considers obesity a disease. WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports, at a meeting in Chicago, the American Medical Association House of Delegates has voted to declare obesity a medical illness. Dr. Louis Aronne, director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill ...
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Why The Spurs Must Win Game 7
Last night, the San Antonio Spurs possibly choked away a championship. They led the Miami Heat by 5 points with 20 seconds to play and lost in OT. That’s a choke. You don’t blow 5 point leads with 20 seconds to play. You just can’t do that. Not with a title on the ...
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Hahn Not Ready To Sell Off Sox
(CBS) Despite a loss to the Twins on Tuesday night that came on the heels of losing three out of four the Astros, the White Sox are not sellers. Yet. Sitting in last place in the Central division, 9.5 games out of first place, White Sox general manager Rick Hahn said he’s not ready to dismantle his club as the trade deadline ...
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Hundreds Of Heat Fans Head Home Miss Dramatic Game 6 Ending
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Surfer Chemical Slicks Common On NW Indiana Beaches
CHICAGO (CBS) – Environmental authorities in Indiana said preliminary results have found that an additive used in food and fertilizer and a metal cleaning agent were in the slick found on the lake this week. Someone who spends a lot of time on the lake doesn’t believe it was an isolated incident. "It's been a dirty week for Lake Michigan," said Basil Tydings, an East ...
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LeBron Leads Heat To Game 6 OT Win
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Guardian Angels Patrol Blue Line Stop Near Scene Of Sexual Assault
CHICAGO (CBS) – Members of the Guardian Angels were patrolling near a CTA Blue Line station on the Northwest Side on Wednesday, two days after a woman was sexually assaulted along a heavily-traveled walkway in the Mayfair neighborhood. Around 10 p.m. Monday, a 24-year-old woman was walking on a landscaped path that leads from the 4500 block of West Agatite Avenue to the 4500 block of West ...
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Creative Control Chicago Hate Culture Kanye West’s ‘Yeezus’
Yeezus , is stark, abrasive and combative. It is not "minimalist," even by Kanye standards; but after the grandiose orchestral production that ...
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Park Ridge labor contract in dispute
A month after Park Ridge aldermen reaffirmed a new contract with an employees' union, members are claiming its provisions are not being adhered to by the city.Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers said paychecks were hit with $68 more for health insurance co-payments since May 1, but new salary rates were not included as of that date.The contract had not been signed by ...
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Homer Glen plan commissioners learn about open meetings
Homer Glen Plan Commission member Tom Bernicky, left, receives Open Meetings Act training this week with Kevin Hoffmeister, the commission ...
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Stormwater-detention area worries Lake Forest residents
Lake Forest residents Betty Pierret, from left, Bruce Bennett, Patrick Lumpton and Hildo Hoogcarspel shared their concerns about District 115's plan for a stormwater-detention ...
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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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