U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and then-Gov. George Ryan march in the Columbus Day Parade in 2000. Ryan was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison in a racketeering faud scheme.
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Chicago motorists are being urged to take advantage of a six-week amnesty for overdue parking and red-light tickets before City Hall lowers the boom — by dropping the boot threshold from three unpaid tickets older than one year.
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Vikings defensive end Jared Allen said he never had seen anything like it.
Analysis: Two days after the Irish were bludgeoned 38-3 by USC, it's time to unzip the body bag on Notre Dame's regular season and begin the autopsy. First-year athletic director Jack Swarbrick is scrubbing his hands in anticipation of overseeing the postmortem examination. Swarbrick is the wild card in this process.
It was only one game, and it's usually not wise to make too much of a single occurrence, but the Bulls believe their 103-92 comeback victory Sunday over the Philadelphia 76ers is a testament to their growth during the stretch of seven road games.
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Fifty years is a long time to cry. Della Maffiola wept again Sunday as she remembered her son Joseph, killed in the Our Lady of the Angels school fire 50 years ago today. "It feels like yesterday,'' she said. Joseph, 10, and 91 other students and three nuns who died in the Chicago blaze were remembered in a Sunday mass at Holy Family Church, 1080 W. Roosevelt.
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Debra Messing has a dancing scene in her new movie, but that's not the only time she got to shake it on the set of "Nothing Like the Holidays." "I was filming a winter scene on a front porch in Humboldt Park," she says, "and real hypothermia set in. I hear it was your worst winter in about 100 years. It was raining ice and about 10 below. My whole body was shaking, and then it was time for my closeup." 
The U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday. The NBER — a private, nonprofit research organization — said its group of academic economists who determine business cycles met and decided that the U.S. recession began last December. 
Lynn Sweet has the latest updates on President-elect Obama's transition to the White House
After the historic 2008 Presidential election, Lynn Sweet is following Barack Obama's transition to the White House every step of the way. Check back throughout the day for the latest news on Cabinet picks, the inauguration and the forthcoming Presidential pet.
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