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Mom lives in fear of a lethal germ

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Death, survival in suburban family shows how resistant bacterium spreads

No matter what doctors did, the baby's oxygen levels kept dropping.

Need for reburials at Burr Oak raises religious issues | Photos

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Reburials need to incorporate rites of deceased

Remains were unearthed and carelessly cast away in an alleged money-making scheme at Burr Oak Cemetery.

Falun Gong practitioners tell their tale | Video

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Protest will mark anniversary of ban

When the peaceful melody of traditional Chinese instruments echoes through the courtyard of Hilliard Towers, a public housing complex, Peter Zheng and Helen Nie close their eyes and bend their bodies, confident that neighbors are watching with wonder, not reproach.

Postcards from a remarkable life

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

After 87-year-old Lucille Taliaferro was found passed out in the back of McDonald's restuarant, she was made a ward of Cook County. Little did they know the storied life she'd led, including writing more than 20 books and serving in two wars.

2 hurt as car crashes into suburban health club

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:53:53 -0500

2 teens shot near St. Sabina Church

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:51:23 -0500

Indiana prison break: Ex-con in area prior to escape

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Former inmate now facing parole violations says he knows escapees

The weekend that three inmates escaped from a Michigan City, Ind., prison, Paul Komyatti Jr., convicted of killing his father in 1983 and recently released on parole, was gambling at a nearby casino.

Ultra-fast trains ordered

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

200 m.p.h. vehicles coming to Chicago in speedy-rail plan

New passenger trains capable of exceeding 200 m.p.h. will operate from Chicago to Milwaukee under a purchase agreement that Wisconsin officials announced Friday.

Joliet opens former prison site as tourist destination

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Joliet takes first steps to rehabilitate prison as a park

For more than a century, the Joliet Correctional Center was known as one of the nation's toughest prisons, a place where two inmates were squeezed into 4-foot-wide cells, where tuberculosis deaths were not uncommon and where prisoners made do with slop buckets until indoor plumbing arrived in the late 1940s.

Outgoing alderman wants wife to be his successor

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Controversial minister backs out of running

Mayor Richard Daley avoided having to make a difficult choice between the competing interests of gay and Latino leaders when a controversial minister ended his candidacy Friday for a vacant spot on the City Council.