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Floating on air
Jul 02, 2009 ... Color Photo: Brian Jackson, Sun-Times / Anna Kane fearlessly spreads out on ...
Clarification
Jul 02, 2009 ... A story in Tuesday's editions about the city of Chicago's minority set-aside program for construction projects should have said that while Asian-American ...
'If one of these things goes off in your hand, you're probably going to die'
Jul 02, 2009; ... The recent theft of at least 5,000 pounds of high-powered, commercial-grade fireworks from a storage facility has DuPage County authorities worried that the missing shells, in the hands of an amateur, could be deadly. With July 4th approaching, officials fear the powerful shells will end ...
Yesterday's top 5 most viewed stories at suntimes.com
Jul 02, 2009 ... 1. Flight attendant accused of battery suntimes.com/news/24-7 2. Doubt over Michael's kids suntimes.com/entertainment/zwecker 3. 3 city unions holding out on ...
Wednesday's 65-degree reading was chilliest July 1 since 1924
Jul 02, 2009 ... With a high of just 65 at O'Hare Airport, Wednesday was the chilliest July 1 in Chicago since the early 1900s. The lowest high for July 1 was 61 degrees in 1904 and 1924, according to the National Weather ...
Average gas price inches down to $2.84
Jul 02, 2009 ... Just in time for the Fourth of July weekend, gasoline prices in the Chicago area dipped Wednesday. The average price of unleaded regular gasoline was $2.84 on Wednesday, down from $2.85 on Tuesday and $2.90 a week ago, according to AAA. Prices are up from a month ago, when they averaged ...
'Illegal' high-rise hotels
Jul 02, 2009; ... How would you like to live in a high-rise condominium and pay hefty monthly assessments, only to have the building turned into an illegal hotel, with luggage-toting strangers streaming in and out? That's what's happening at many downtown high-rises -- and Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) has ...
Not a coup
Jul 02, 2009; ... A MESSAGE FROM HONDURAS . . . Paleontologist Sue Hendrickson, who discovered the Field Museum's famous T-Rex "Sue," lives in Honduras -- and has dispatched urgent messages to her friends about trouble there. - Translation: In case you zoomed past the Honduran headlines this week, ...
So how much does White House job pay?
Jul 02, 2009; ... The top Chicagoans in the Obama White House also earn the top White House staff salaries -- capped at $172,200, according to a list released Wednesday. The $172,200 earners from Chicago: senior adviser David Axelrod, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and Susan ...
CPS axes 557, with more layoffs ahead
Jul 02, 2009; ... More than 500 Chicago Public School employees were given pink slips Wednesday in what officials said was the largest round of layoffs to ever hit the nation's third-largest school system. The 557 job cuts, along with other savings, should shrink the system's $475 million deficit to $375 ...
'Runaway greed' gets doc 18 months
Jul 02, 2009; ... Dr. Robert Weinstein was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison. The name means nothing to most of you, I realize, which is a shame, because you sure know a lot about his longtime partner, Stuart Levine, the crook who brought down the Blagojevich administration. Weinstein was ...
Education official's home, office raided
Jul 02, 2009; ... Investigators with the Cook County state's attorney's office raided the home and office of a suburban education official accused of using a government credit card for personal expenses and approving questionable payments to relatives on his payroll. Cook County Regional Supt. Charles A ....
Flight attendant charged with rubbing hand of boy, 16
Jul 02, 2009 ... A United Airlines flight attendant was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly rubbed the hand of a 16-year-old passenger and made inappropriate comments to the boy during a flight from Los Angeles to Chicago, police said. Jaime Daria Samia, 57, of Long Beach, Calif., was charged with ...
Illinois ranks 10th in nation in rate of overweight and obese children
Jul 02, 2009 ... Illinois ranks 10th in the nation for its rate of overweight and obese kids and has the 27th highest rate of adult obesity, according to a report released Wednesday by Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Nearly 35 percent of Illinois children (ages 10-17) ...
Young hero cited for saving woman
Jul 02, 2009; ... Tom Foust, a Glenview teenager who pulled an 83-year-old woman from a car stuck on railroad tracks seconds before it was hit by a train, was one of 22 people awarded Carnegie medals for heroism Wednesday. Foust -- now 19 and in the Marine Corps -- was a 17-year-old senior at Glenbrook ...
Will 3 unions derail city deal?
Jul 02, 2009; ... Three holdout unions with 650 layoffs hanging in the balance -- Teamsters 726, Laborers 1001 and AFSCME Council 31 -- are standing in the way of a two-year deal on cost-cutting concessions that would save the jobs of 1,504 targeted city employees. Mayor Daley refused to say what he would ...
Man held in shooting of boy
Jul 02, 2009; ... A 19-year-old man was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail Wednesday on charges of shooting and wounding a 9-year-old boy in Rogers Park. James Brown shot the boy in the thigh Friday night while the boy was with his mother and three siblings in ...
Have machete, will be arrested
Jul 02, 2009; ... A man building a fort in the woods stopped for lunch at Portillo's in Elmhurst -- and was arrested for bringing two machetes with him, police said. A fellow diner at the restaurant on Route 83 spotted the machetes and called police June 25. Thomas Shedd, 18, of Villa Park, was ...
Time running out for farm
Jul 02, 2009; ... The life of a 175-year-old farmstead just 4? miles outside of Chicago is drawing to a close, and the Johnson family has accepted that inevitability. However, the Oak Forest farm owners are fighting for the right to determine when to pull the plug. That decision has dire financial ...
Teen charged with selling counterfeit $100 bills
Jul 02, 2009 ... The 18-year-old Chicago son of a man allegedly tied to counterfeiting was charged with selling counterfeit $100 bills. Arthur J. Williams III is accused of selling bills with serial numbers that match nearly $113,000 worth of fake cash nationwide, according to the U.S. attorney's ...