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Members of the Whitney Young Concert Choir pass a portrait of former Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Michael Scott on their way to the stage to perform at Scott's public memorial service Sunday. (Rich Hein/Sun-Times)
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Joe Ferguson is the eldest son of a working-class single mom and a father he never knew who survived that rejection -- and the mean streets of Boston -- to become a dogged federal prosecutor in Chicago.
Lovie Smith: "I still feel like we're in the mix. If we can correct a lot of things, a lot of the small things, really they're not small. They're turning into big things that we have to take care of.''
The Bears were going to let their play speak for themselves after turning down NBC for pregame interviews last week.
Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis held his usual news conference Sunday alone and with no news about his future employment status. Weis said he and Swarbrick have not had any such meeting. They saw each other only briefly in the locker room Saturday, after Notre Dame dropped to 6-5 with a 33-30 home loss in overtime to Connecticut (5-5).
Few teams can match the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets when it
comes to having multiple long, athletic big men, but you can bet other
teams will try to copy the game plan the Lakers and Nuggets
successfully used to produce blowout wins against the Bulls in the last
two games.
PHILADELPHIA—Chicago boxer and former national Golden Gloves champ Francisco Rodriguez has died after a bout in Philadelphia.
Kristy McPherson finished off a 5-under-par 67 in fading sunlight Sunday to take a one-stroke lead in the LPGA Tour Championship in Richmond, Va., before the second round was suspended because of darkness.
Search the 2009 school report cards for all public schools in the state. Type in the school's name or choose from one of the drop down menus by selecting the county, the school district or the city in where a school is.
Last year, Shari Sopourn was trying to find a way to teach her kids about the recent government bailout of financial institutions. In the process, she and her husband, Jordy, created Bailout!, a board game that is a sort of anti-Monopoly.
Taylor Swift swept the night, and Michael Jackson made history, but all anyone’s talking about today is Adam Lambert. And a lot of them are complaining. ABC says more than 1,500 people have called to complain about Adam
Lambert’s sexually charged performance at the end of Sunday night’s
American Music Awards.
Terry Savage: One of the remaining obstacles to settling the losses and distributing restitution to Illinois Bright Start investors was removed late last week. The state of Oregon, one of six states that had college savings plan funds invested in the supposedly conservative Oppenheimer Core Bond fund, dropped its lawsuit against the fund management company and agreed to settle for a $20 million payment.
Blagojevich hires holding on
