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Roger Ebert's Ebertfest gets $20,000 academy grant
Roger Ebert may already be on the mend from a hairline fracture in his left leg, but there's news Thursday that may be enough to get him out of bed and dancing: His annual film festival, Ebertfest, received a $20,000 grant from the Academy of Motion...
Tags: Roger Ebert, Movies, Entertainment, J.K. Rowling , Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
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U. of I. student from Lake in the Hills killed in hit-and-run
A Lake in the Hills man attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign died this morning after being severely injured in a hit-and-run collision late Friday, authorities said. Anthony G. Pauls, 22, was declared dead at 7:54 a.m. at Carle...
Tags: Champaign County (Illinois), Lake In the Hills, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Urbana (Champaign, Illinois)
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Naperville man, roommate arrested in Champaign shooting incident
Tribune reporterAn alcohol-fueled fight between two roommates landed both in jail after one fired a shot inside a residence in downstate Champaign early this morning, causing an evacuation and a SWAT response, police said. Twenty-two year old David Lu returned home from...Tags: Champaign County (Illinois), Shootings, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
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Ritzhenhein runs his race, is top U.S. finisher in Chicago Marathon
Dathan Ritzenhein refused to get carried away. Nine miles into Sunday's Bank of America Chicago Marathon, Ritzenhein found himself running faster than he planned and only some 10 seconds behind the lead pack, much closer than he expected at that point....
Tags: Sports, Chicago Marathon, Paralympic Games, Dathan Ritzenhein, Liliya Shobukhova
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The University of Chicagoland — at Missouri
— Take a walk around Lathrop Hall at the University of Missouri, and it won't take long before you meet someone from the Chicago area. There are the roommates from Barrington and Cary, and, two doors down, freshmen from Lemont and Mount Prospect....
Tags: Chicago Cubs, Colleges and Universities, Indiana University, Media Industry, O'Hare International Airport
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2 killed in West Pullman shooting: 'Chicago is getting reckless'
Quiltavia Patterson was an aspiring rapper who left Chicago months ago to get her twin toddlers out of harm's way. Jermaine Carter was "the cool guy" in the West Pullman neighborhood who did tattoos. He also preached to his children daily about staying...
Tags: Shootings, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Urbana (Champaign, Illinois)
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University of Illinois criticized after contract raises conflict of interest concerns
The University of Illinois handed out a $4.6 million contract to an architectural firm partially owned by the husband of a key administrator who oversees the planning of campus construction projects. The school initially did so without asking for the...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Rod Blagojevich, Lawyers, Career and Workplace, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
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Workers' uphill 'Fight for 15' in a tough economy
Change of SubjectThe protest march on North Michigan Avenue early Thursday afternoon by members of the Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago was probably futile. The membership of this independent, newly formed union — drawn from retail and restaurant employees in... -
There's an age difference?
While at a party in New York City, Steve Koenig got a nudge from his boss. If you hit on that woman, the boss told him, pointing to a pretty blonde, you can come in late tomorrow. Koenig, who at the time worked chartering private planes, obliged —...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Punishment, Yale University, South Beach (Miami Beach, Florida), New York City
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'Fight for $15' to begin Thursday in Chicago
Change of SubjectUPDATED BELOW WITH A RESPONSE FROM THE ILLINOIS RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION Thursday at noon, low-wage food and retail workers will rally with supporters at St. James Cathedral in Chicago (map) to kick off a union organizing campaign and to demand...... -
Illinois State Fair taking steps to stop spread of new swine flu
Illinois State Fair organizers are equipping the Springfield fairgrounds with extra hand-washing stations and cautionary signs to keep an emerging swine flu strain at bay. State public health officials on Thursday confirmed Illinois' first case, a...
Tags: H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine, Disease Prevention, Flu, Vaccines, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Chicago-area native Dan Suh finds his groove with Korean pop star Psy
Dan Suh returned my call Tuesday from his room at the Ritz-Carlton Toronto, and we started with some housekeeping. Could he please email me a photo of himself for the paper? "Yeah, I can do that. We have a photographer traveling with us," Suh, 32, said....
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Barrington, Entertainment, Michael Jackson, Melissa Harris
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