Stories Collection

1. Robert J. Adelsperger, who helped to build "an amazing collection" of rare books at t...
2. The NHL is trying to fool the public with a flawed anti-doping program, the chairman ...
3. Rush co-owner Mike Ditka threw a championship celebration party at his downtown resta...
4. Wade Miller's recovery from shoulder surgery is teaching him about patience as much a...
5. Flavor -- bold and intense flavor, pucker-power flavor, spicy hot flavor, coffee and ...
6. When L.D. of Arlington Heights requested papaya recipes for a party with a tropical t...
7. Think the Asian long-horned beetle was bad? You ain't seen nothin' yet, official...
8. OPENING SHOT Karl Rove, freed from the threat of indictment Tuesday, lost no tim...
9. LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A doctor and a consumer group have sued KFC in an effort to stop t...
10. It doesn't take an expert to figure out that the level of success students attain is ...
11. So now the American Medical Association wants a federal tax on soft drinks just becau...
12. LOS ANGELES -- Sheriff's deputies evicted people from an urban community garden to ma...
13. Meet Lormuel Lormuel is a likable young man with lots of athletic talent. He enj...
14. Most American households are doing a good job managing their finances, although lower...
15. Jabil Circuit Inc. dropped 22 percent after the maker of cell phones and electronics ...
16. MAMARONECK, N.Y. -- At the Masters, it was two drivers. At the U.S. Open this week, i...
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18. Dusty Baker used a walkie-talkie for his calls to the Cubs bullpen Tuesday night, not...
19. BAREFOOT CONTESSA SOUR CREAM COFFEE CAKE MIX Rating 3 out of 4 Suggested re...
20. If you're still cooking in drab shades, lighten up. After a winter of brown food -- a...
21. Bear down -- and pony up -- football fans: the cost of as many as 700 Soldier Field p...
22. WORKER IN LOOP FALLS TO HIS DEATH An ironworker fell to his death Tuesday mornin...
23. BAGHDAD, Iraq -- President Bush told Iraq's new leader in a surprise face-to-face vis...
24. No one would want our representatives in Washington to be chained to their desks. The...
25. I just finished reading "Just what the doctor ordered: a soda tax?" [news story, June...
26. 'Sondheim in the Park," the free, three-day festival set to run July 14-16 in Chicago...
27. RINGO STARR & HIS ALL STARR BAND When: 8 p.m. Saturday Where: Rosemont Thea...
28. Two overachievers are putting the University of Illinois at Chicago on the map with t...
29. When you called Chester J. Jaskolka on the phone, you'd be treated to his usual greet...
30. MAMARONECK, N.Y. -- Luke Donald has made step-by-step progress since turning pro in 2...
31. ARLINGTON, Texas -- At least for the time being, Brian Anderson is enjoying life on p...
32. An arbitrator will hear Cubs catcher Michael Barrett's appeal of a 10-game suspension...
33. Heaven on Seven's Jimmy Bannos continues to aid in the relief efforts for New Orleans...
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35. After working and saving for 30 years, Rodney and Harriet Neely could live almost any...
36. A Chicago man has been charged with sexually assaulting five young girls, who are all...
37. BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Many Sunnis and even some Shiite political parties dismissed Preside...
38. An estimated 143,000 men are stay-at-home dads -- married men who care for their chil...
39. The Rush just won Arena Bowl XX. I decided this year I would be a fan. I took my wife...
40. NEW YORK -- ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff on Tuesday paid his first visit to the netwo...
41. The Chicago Sun-Times' parent company acquired a new name and a new chairman Tuesday,...
42. WORM CONTAINED, YAHOO SAYS Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it has contained a malicious ...
43. DUBLIN, Ireland -- Charles Haughey, who served four terms as Ireland's prime minister...
44. MAMARONECK, N.Y. -- Do you remember the winner of last year's U.S. Open? Hint: It was...
45. ARLINGTON, Texas -- Rather than dwelling on the latest setback to injured reliever Du...
46. ARLINGTON, Texas -- There were no delusions of a no-hitter or even a complete game. ...
47. A continuing compendium of tips and techniques for cooks from Food Network Kitchens: ...
48. American scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test have fallen to the mid-800s from more...
49. He was the second-highest elected official in the city. He pulled in six figures, had...
50. SPRINGFIELD -- Payroll records containing Social Security numbers of government worke...
51. WASHINGTON -- The government doled out as much as $1.4 billion in bogus assistance to...
52. Watching a movie with my husband can be a mildly frustrating experience. First, ...
53. Here in the United States we celebrate national holidays that remind us of our countr...
54. PARTY FILE Ticket price: $500. Guests: 540. Amount raised: $1.5 millio...
55. CDW Corp. has long fashioned itself as David to Dell Inc.'s Goliath -- a role CEO Joh...
56. The icon has arrived. John McColgan and Moya Doherty, co- producers of the Chicago-bo...
57. He spent most of his life in the automotive industry in Chicago. But in Napervill...
58. LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- To hear LaMarcus Aldridge tell it, there was a time when he...
59. Chien-Ming Wang shut down the Cleveland Indians' powerful lineup, Robinson Cano homer...
60. MIAMI -- How's this for an improbable finish? Shaquille O'Neal, one of the worst...
61. Place steaks on a hot grill, stuff baked potatoes, toss a salad and prepare a rum-lac...
62. There have been times during the past few weeks when you would swear that Thomas Durk...
63. Three months to the day after Cook County Board President John Stroger suffered a str...
64. Planning is getting under way for upgrades in the Cook County Forest Preserve Distric...
65. OXNARD, Calif. -- Two police officers patrolling the beach in an SUV this week ran ov...
66. As a Democrat, I'm appalled that some leaders of my party, notably Senators Hillary C...
67. Call me a Pollyanna. Call me a crazy optimist. Call me a dope with hope. But today I ...
68. In the 1960s and '70s, a burgeoning movement of young women who called themselves fem...
69. When a Wal-Mart Supercenter opens this morning in Country Club Hills, customers will ...
70. - Weber Shandwick/ Chicago has reached out and taken in consumer marketing public rel...
71. Handicapper Darryl Schwartz offers his top local and intertrack selections ARLIN...
72. The WNBA is new to Chicago this year, but two players who grew up in the area -- Yola...
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74. A Mayor Daley press aide told a deputy commissioner to lie to the public and say the ...
75. Chicago could be home to as many as 20 new Wal-Mart stores over the next five years, ...
76. ORLANDO, Fla. -- As Tropical Storm Alberto threatened to strengthen into the ninth hu...
77. It is time to revive consideration of the installation of slot machine casinos at our...
78. Pete Seeger has just returned from a rainy day walk in the shadow of Storm King Mount...
79. HOST TAKES OVER MSNBC MSNBC anchor Dan Abrams was put in charge of the cable cha...
80. SPRINGFIELD -- The state health department will not sanction Six Flags Great America ...
81. ST. LOUIS -- Illinois has lured an industrial-gas distributor to Downstate Cahokia fr...
82. ADOBE DRAWS A BRIGHT PICTURE Adobe Systems Inc. stock closed up Monday after a C...
83. MAMARONECK, N.Y. -- On his first day back at a tournament site, Tiger Woods broke fro...
84. ARLINGTON, Texas -- Jim Thome was taken aback to hear that Paul Konerko started six g...
85. Let's clear this up. As of now, there is not enough support on the Cook County B...
86. Hours after a violent car crash on the city's Southwest Side, two 15-year-old girls l...
87. Charges were dropped Monday against a man accused of assaulting Rep. Bobby Rush at a ...
88. WASHINGTON -- Violent crime in the U.S. is on the rise, posting its biggest one-year ...
89. The list of the Chicago City Council's legislative "big ideas" is incomplete ["Alderm...
90. NEW YORK -- An ex-convict who raped a celebrity nearly 25 years ago and who once thre...
91. ELVIS COSTELLO & ALLEN TOUSSAINT At the Ravinia Festival - - - New Orl...
92. SUSPECT SHOT BY POLICE ON W. SIDE Chicago Police shot and injured a man Monday n...
93. Sears launched a radio ad campaign to tell shoppers about deals found at the Sears.co...
94. Chicago jazzman Clarence E. Wheeler founded a musical group that combined his smoky t...
95. EDMONTON, Alberta -- A flick of the stick. A quick grab with the glove. A perfectly p...
96. ARLINGTON, Texas -- White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen would like to know why Major Leag...
97. The United States continues to lead the world in circumcisions; 1.12 million American...
98. Shotgun in hand, Nick Calabrese got out of the brown Ford LTD with another reputed mo...
99. Doctors should not help interrogate suspected terrorists and other detainees, even wh...
100. CINCINNATI -- Police at the University of Cincinnati say it's hard to be an imposing ...
101. After reading House Speaker Michael Madigan's letter to the editor, "Don't take chanc...
102. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Security forces raided a southern Afghan village and killed ...
103. An estimated 880 million of the world's adults cannot read or write, and more than 12...
104. THE SCOOP: Mark your calendars. Family, friends, dignitaries and colleagues of the Su...
105. CUBS BULLPEN GOES WIRELESS Wrigley Field, the last big-league stadium to install...
106. Preach is all the Rev. Dale Owen wanted to do, and preach he did across his native In...
107. MIAMI -- Who says Pat Riley doesn't have a heart? The Miami Heat coach showed a great...
108. They'll sell you sunshine and beer, family and fun. But what they're really selling i...
109. PITTSBURGH -- Doctors successfully repaired what they said were multiple facial fract...
110. According to film legend, Dustin Hoffman showed up on the set of "Marathon Man" one d...
111. Nearly 1,200 low-income teenagers and young adults in Chicago and around Illinois wil...
112. LIMERICK, Pa. -- Rashida Redd punched in a six-digit code in her Pontiac Grand Prix a...
113. Thank God for sane people like Hillary Clinton ["Coulter's not right, Hillary says," ...
114. LONDON -- He gave the world the Ministry of Silly Walks and foul- tempered hotelier B...
115. Report cards are in the process of making their way home for parents to review and di...
116. Loans for green roofs and energy-efficient heating helped boost ShoreBank Corp.'s con...
117. A growing number of airports have become remote offices for business travelers. ...
118. WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Neroli Fairhall, a gold medalist in archery at the 1982 Co...
119. Random thoughts while wondering whether White Sox pitchers -- starting and otherwise ...
120. ARLINGTON, Texas -- Jose Contreras not only pitched himself into the White Sox record...
121. PITTSBURGH -- As in most serious accidents, the curious gathered late Monday morning ...
122. Coffee may counteract alcohol's poisonous effects on the liver and help prevent cirrh...
123. CTA SIGNAL PROBLEMS REPAIRED Signal problems that snarled the Red and Brown line...
124. Southern Indiana's 812 area code won't be exhausted of new telephone numbers until so...
125. Well, if Cook County Board President John Stroger is really OK, he should want to let...
126. No comment from her camp, but those pregnancy rumors about Sandra Bullock sure are fl...
127. 'Tuesday Night Book Club" chronicles the love lives of seven real women living in Sco...
128. Thirty-one percent of U.S. companies intend to increase staffing levels in the third ...
129. Think you can escape the office and the Internet at 35,000 feet? Not so fast. ...
130. TORONTO -- Kenneth Thomson, an understated billionaire who was Canada's richest perso...
131. All drug tests given to players were clean during the first season of the NHL's anti-...
132. Italy's "danger man" came through for the Azzurri. Andrea Pirlo, a player identi...
133. 2005 -- Cleveland tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. sustained internal injuries and damage...
134. A Chicago truck driver who was set to stand trial Monday for a 2003 crash that killed...
135. WASHINGTON -- President Bush, buoyed by the death of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, ...
136. Whether or not you agree with President Bush's direction in Iraq, there is no disputi...
137. If two people of the same sex can find happiness together, that is no one's business....
138. "I'm not sure she'd like it, to be honest. She hasn't heard it yet, and we've no inte...
139. TONIGHT "Fear Factor" (7 p.m., WMAQ-Channel 5): Joe Rogan fights a contestant wh...
140. Investors continued their monthlong retreat Monday as inflation fears kept them on ed...
141. - Arc Worldwide has named Mark Renshaw senior vice president and director of one-to-o...
142. VIENNA, Austria -- Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who survived the Holocaust and fled Hungar...
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144. FRANKFURT, Germany -- Togo's World Cup debut keeps getting stranger. The tiny We...
145. Famous guys like Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, former White Sox...
146. It's scientific: "Sorry, honey, I have a headache" may have to be replaced with "Yes,...
147. BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A medic spent about 20 minutes trying to save Abu Musab al-Zarqawi e...
148. Progress, as the adage wisely notes, cannot be stopped, particularly in the case of c...
149. In the Michael Krauss column of June 5 ["Daley pushing tech literacy for all in Chica...
150. Perhaps "Cars" downshifted you into the mood. David Hasselhoff hopes so because he's ...
151. Dear Ellie: I'm 18, in high school, and have been dating a girl, 17, whom I love, for...
152. Walt Disney Co.'s new animated film "Cars" blew a tire Monday, sending the company's ...
153. TOKYO -- Buy lunch and a magazine at any Japanese convenience store, and you're likel...
154. Historically, day camps for deaf kids are rather quiet places. When a soccer goal is ...
155. LONDON -- Dispirited prisoners at Guantanamo Bay look to suicide as a way out of a ho...
156. TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran said Sunday that it accepted some parts of a Western offer aimed...
157. Hey, Indiana! Did you hear the noon news on May 31? Illinois is now considering leasi...
158. When the full history of the 2005-2006 Broadway season is written, this is what it wi...
159. "Hell's Kitchen" (7 p.m., WFLD-Channel 32): A dozen contestants compete to see who ca...
160. This year, 40 million Americans will move. Moving is considered one of the most stres...
161. Notable stock upgrades issued in the last week. (Trading symbols in parentheses.) ...
162. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- This was one doozy of a retirement party for Bernard Hopkins. ...
163. The Netherlands relied on the lightning speed of forward Arjen Robben to earn a 1-0 v...
164. In perhaps the least stunning news from the Catholic Church since it decried "The Da ...
165. Carlos Beltran drove in four runs and scored three, and Carlos Delgado had three hits...
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167. Doctors are drawing attention to an emerging environmental worry - - pollution of lak...
168. Wallace "Gator" Bradley -- former enforcer for the Gangster Disciples -- is now a sel...
169. NEW YORK -- As a seasoned "cutter," Lee Cruceta thought he knew when it was safe to h...
170. WASHINGTON -- On the eve of President Bush's summit on Iraq, the top U.S. commander i...
171. As a liberal Democrat, I encourage an increase in the minimum wage and that no one ea...
172. Knowing he's on the verge of zooming from virtual unknown to possible superstar, "Sup...
173. Every couple fights. Love would be easy -- or easier -- if it weren't for the argumen...
174. Looking for something interesting to read this summer? I have two suggestions. But fi...
175. MILWAUKEE -- James Cameron, who survived an attempted lynching by a white mob in Mari...
176. For Nationwide Tour players eager to reach the PGA Tour, there's no bigger event than...
177. NUREMBERG, Germany -- Mexico's raucous crowd left the stadium singing and chanting. O...
178. The failure to have Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona on stage alongside Pele an...
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180. Many viewing the new animated Disney/Pixar film "Cars" might think the curmudgeonly 1...
181. A proposal to tax sugar-sweetened soft drinks got a sour reception Sunday at the Amer...
182. By the time testimony in the three-week trial was over and the case was given to the ...
183. A piece of fruit coming into the United States is more likely to get government atten...
184. The only man to lead Metra's board is about to step down. Jeffrey Ladd, who became ch...
185. Ald. Ed Burke (14th) can't be serious, can he? On Wednesday, Burke, in musing on...
186. Jud Laipply is one in a million. Make that one in 18 million. The Cleveland...
187. CONCERT REVIEW Ushaka AT ravinia Two years ago, singers and dancers fr...
188. Items intended for the Appointments column must be submitted one to two weeks in adva...
189. LOS ANGELES -- Joe Restivo, a former comedian and co-owner of the Vitello's restauran...
190. The U.S. Open takes over Winged Foot today, the third visit to the New York area in t...
191. The Fire's first game at Toyota Park triggered a celebration for the Major League Soc...
192. When it comes to the girlfriend of Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo posing nude, it's li...
193. CINCINNATI -- Fellow rookies Rich Hill, Angel Guzman and Jae Kuk Ryu paved a road for...
194. Q. With Disney/Pixar's "Cars" film opening, what are the best and worst movie cars? -...
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196. Cook County Board President John Stroger remained hospitalized Sunday, but family mem...
197. WASHINGTON -- Wedding parties and other groups hoping to commemorate their special ev...
198. DAYTON, Ohio -- Thousands of pounds of armor added to military Humvees, intended to p...
199. My wife's family, all American citizens, has been, for over a year, trying to bring h...