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2 teens charged in fatal beating
Two South Side teenagers were held in lieu of $1.5 million bail Thursday in the fatal beating of another teen in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood. Teron Griffin and Jakari Glass, both 17, appeared for bail hearings in the slaying of Shawn Bowens, also 17.... -
30-year teacher in city school
Chicago Tribune reporterBarbara E. Brown employed an emphatic but caring teaching style as she stressed the basics of arithmetic and reading to students over three decades at Ruggles Elementary School in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood. Mrs. Brown, 79, died of heart failure on...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Chicago Public Schools, Roman Catholic, Elementary Schools, Roosevelt University
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South Side man's life of challenges ends in violence
Chicago Tribune reporterHerbert Balentine overcame many challenges: He fought in the Vietnam War. He helped to heal his family after a daughter and grandson were killed four years ago. He worked two jobs when he was in his early 60s to support himself and his wife. But...Tags: Crimes, Employees, Oak Lawn, Murder, Wars and Interventions
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Hiscox to acquire America Live Stock
Suffocating in a snow drift is one of the biggest dangers faced by cows out in the field in the winter. "If the snow gets too high, the cows can't move, and they're unable to breathe," Ed Donnelly says. Animal mortality facts like those are on the tip...Tags: Chicago Mortgages, Mortgages, Viral Diseases, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Demographics
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City, schools to offer mortgage assistance to teachers
Special to the TribuneThe Chicago Department of Housing and Chicago Public Schools are partnering to bring mortgage assistance to Chicago public school teachers who buy homes in the city. "It is a good time to be a teacher in the Chicago public school system," said Kathe...Tags: Chicago Mortgages, Chicago Public Schools, Teaching and Learning, Mortgages, Garfield Park
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When labs falter, defendants pay
Tribune staff reportersAs John Willis sought to prove he had been wrongly convicted of a rape in the Chatham neighborhood, the Illinois State Police crime lab in Chicago came across a potential key to his innocence. It was a single sheet of paper containing the lab results...Tags: Identification Technology, Theft, Prisons, Law Enforcement, Justice System
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Julie Harris recounts a bountiful career
Tribune chief criticJulie Harris made her Broadway debut 56 years ago, in a play called "It's a Gift." She was 20, and she played the oldest of 11 children. Five years later, she memorably played the 12-year-old tomboy Frankie in Carson McCullers' "The Member of the Wedding,...Tags: Brandon de Wilde, Bette Davis, Michigan, Emily Dickinson, Carson McCullers
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2004 Class A girls results
The State Finals At North Central College, Naperville Fri., May 28 Chatham Glenwood 1, St. Viator 0 Wheaton Academy 5, Normal University 4 Fenwick 1, Peoria Notre Dame 0 Rockford Boylan 2, Belleville Althoff 1 Sat., May 29 Wheaton Academy 2, Chatham...Tags: Bodies of Water, Ridgewood, Vernon Hills, Nazareth, Joliet
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Northwest Side passes test for elder-friendliness
Special to the TribuneChicago's Northwest Side fares well as a place for seniors to live, according to a just released study that compares the elder-friendliness of 10 American communities. Most seniors on the Northwest Side feel safe in their neighborhood and most are also...Tags: Chicago, New York, Evanston, Montclare, Edgewater
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Five Meridian theaters close
A string of Chicago movie houses, including the venerable Biograph Theater, has been shut because two prominent entrepreneurs touted by Mayor Richard Daley failed to pay hundreds of thousands in city taxes. The five Meridian Entertainment Group Inc....Tags: Theater, State Budgets, Minority Groups, Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois), Water Supply
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