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A different drummer
Tribune reporterA few months after arriving from Sierra Leone, Alie Kabba learned the dynamics of Chicago immigrant life when he found a pickup soccer game near his Rogers Park apartment. All of the players were Mexicans. "I didn't have enough for my own team," he...Tags: Activism, Illegal Immigrants, Crime, Law and Justice, Migration, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Group Offers Plan To Fully Open Lakefront
(WGN-AM)- Chicagoans love to brag about their open, people-friendly lakefront. In reality, 4 of the city's 30 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline are unavailable to the public--cordoned off by an intimidating combination of high-rises, "Private Property"...Tags: WGN, Richard M. Daley, Chicago Park District, Rogers Park, Indiana
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A failure to protect
Tribune reportersBackground checks designed to identify dangerous new residents of Illinois nursing homes often fall short by missing ex-convicts' violent crimes and downplaying the risks they pose to others, the Tribune has found. Some of these offenders went on to...Tags: Illinois, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Social Issues, Game Shows
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Glorious Gardens Contest: The winner
Tribune reporterDennis Paul's garden grew out of worry. It was the mid-1990s. It was just a plot of plain old lawn, surrounded by maybe a 1-foot border of humdrum annuals. "Just a square in the back. A green square," says Paul, a sculptor and figurative-art instructor...Tags: Illinois, Forestry and Timber, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture, Death
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Chicago branch libraries find budget cuts stacked against them
Tribune reporterWalking through the doors of the Edgewater Library, the first thing you notice are the books, piled a foot high on counter tops and crammed into more than a dozen carts. Hundreds of tomes are stacked anywhere but on the shelves at this small, one-room...Tags: Unemployment, Employees, Richard M. Daley, Unions, Chicago Public Library
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New restaurants and more
Dining@LargeTo get a little ahead of the week, I went through my work e-mail after I shoveled out the driveway yesterday. The really long driveway. No, no, of course I'm not bragging. Here's what people told me about and what......Tags: Restaurants, Clubs and Associations, Lifestyle and Leisure, Alcoholic Beverages, Federal Hill
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Woman killed in Edgewater high-rise fire
Chicago Breaking NewsFire equipment outside the Edgewater high-rise as seen from inside the building. (Pat Curry/WGN-Ch.9) When Leela Rani Choudary loved something -- her large, extended, Indian-American family, her cat Pilli, or Chicago, the city she'd grown up near as a... -
Fundraiser seeks immunity in Blagojevich probe
Tribune reportersA key figure in Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged scheme to sell a U.S. Senate seat has sought immunity from federal authorities in return for his cooperation in their ongoing probe, the Tribune has learned. Raghuveer P. Nayak, an Oak Brook businessman...Tags: Jonathan Jackson, Crime, Law and Justice, Political Fundraising, Lisa Madigan, Government
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2007 Farmers Market Guide
Special to the TribuneLaura Cid-Perea and husband Luis Perea, chef-owners of Bombon Bakery and Bombon Cafes in Chicago, plan to shop weekly at the Daley Plaza farmers market after it opens next week. Cid-Perea and her husband, natives of Mexico City, remember the markets...Tags: City Bank, North Center, Transportation, Science and Technology, Morgan Park
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Maryland's favorite new restaurant isn't in Baltimore
Dining@LargeThe Restaurant Association of Maryland's Stars of the Industry awards have been announced; and when I read the list, my first reaction was, 'Wow. Those are weird.'We've talked a lot on the blog this week about whether the Sun is......Tags: Havre de Grace, Restaurants, Bars and Clubs, Ellicott City, Maryland
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