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It was with some fanfare that the Chicago Police Department announced three years ago that all city police districts were being supplied with high-tech LIDAR speed detectors to help crack down on speeders on neighborhood streets. (Brian Jackson/Sun-Times)
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DENVER -- The Blackhawks and Colorado Avalanche appear destined to play long games. They went nine rounds into a shootout in the Hawks' first game at the United Center this season before the Hawks pulled out a victory, and Friday the shootout went eight tension-packed rounds.
Sometimes in Iowa, merely believing is enough. A part-time play-by-play man for a Davenport radio station went on to Des Moines, and later Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the United States.
The Bears won't be without their top wide receiver, and the Arizona Cardinals just might have their No. 2 guy after all Sunday at Soldier Field. Devin Hester returned to practice for the first time this week on Friday with his sprained right ankle and participated in portions of practice
Chris Getz and Josh Fields are Royals, Mark Teahen is the White Sox starting third baseman, Jermaine Dye is all but gone, talks with free agent-to-be Scott Podsednik have disintegrated, and Gordon Beckham is the new starting second baseman.
Kobe Bryant scored 41 points for the third time in four games, becoming the youngest player to reach 24,000 and leading the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers to a 114-98 victory over the visiting Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night.
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.
Christmas was looking very iffy for 7-year-old Ben Ryles and the other children of Park Ridge. You see, the city couldn't afford to pay someone to wrap holiday lights around the downtown trees -- and Ben feared Santa Claus would race across the night sky, failing to notice his town.
Jim DeRogatis: In addition to being an extraordinarily talented group of singers,
songwriters and musicians, as well as some of the nicest people you’ll
meet on the Chicago rock scene, the biggest reason for the Scotland
Yard Gospel Choir’s success is that no local band works harder. Now the beloved group is crawling back to life after the catastrophic automobile crash the group suffered on Sept. 24.
As many as 40,000 jobless Illinois residents, who would have exhausted their unemployment benefits by the end of the year, will benefit from a bill President Obama is expected to sign today extending those benefits up to 20 weeks.
Park Ridge rescues its Christmas lights 
Racine nurse involved in counseling soldiers
