Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) back issues from September 2007:
BRIEF: 1 killed, 2 wounded in South Side shooting.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Sep. 3--CHICAGO -- One person was killed and two others wounded in a shooting late Sunday on the South Side, police said. The incident occurred at about 8:50 p.m. near East 57th Street and South Wabash Avenue in the Washington Park neighborhood, said Chicago Police Officer ...
BRIEF: 2 fatally shot in drive-by on South Side.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Sep. 3--Two men were shot and killed Sunday in a drive-by shooting on the South Side, police said. The shooting happened about 4:40 p.m. at Cottage Grove Avenue and 78th Street, Officer John Mirabelli said. Two men were dead on the scene, and another man was wounded ...
BRIEF: 5 wounded in NW Side shooting.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Jeremy Gorner Sep. 3--Five people were wounded on the Northwest Side this morning in a shooting that Chicago police believe was gang-related. The male victims suffered non-life-threatening wounds and were taken to Stroger Hospital of Cook County and Advocate ...
Teen among 3 killed in drive-by shootings.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Jeremy Gorner Sep. 3--A 14-year-old boy was among three people killed Sunday in two separate drive-by shootings on Chicago's South Side, police said. The teen, Xavier Washington, was killed and two men were wounded in the shooting at East 57th Street and ...
Chicago Tribune Dawn Turner Trice column: Slashing budget shrinks hope for boys in need.(Column)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Dawn Turner Trice Sep. 3--From the street, the gray-stone building in the 1300 block of South California Avenue is deceiving. It appears woefully two-dimensional, lacking in depth, color and contrast. But on the inside, the real picture unfolds. This is Jamal ...
BRIEF: Drug suspect commits suicide as cops close in, police say.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Sep. 3--A 58-year-old Springfield man shot and killed himself Saturday night as police were closing in on arresting him on a drug warrant inside a friend's home in Park Forest, authorities said. About 9 p.m. Saturday, U.S. marshals and Park Forest police learned that the man, ...
Suspect in police chase choked to death, autopsy shows.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Angela Rozas Sep. 3--The death of a West Side man, who authorities said swallowed a bag of drugs that blocked his airway during a police chase, was ruled an accident, the Cook County medical examiner's office said Sunday. Tony Green, 22, of the 600 block of ...
Chicago Tribune Ask Amy column: Keep overtures to alleged killer short and simple.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Amy Dickinson Sep. 3--Dear Amy: This week I read that a former acquaintance of many years ago was the victim of a home invasion and shot the intruder. Today, however, I learned that, in a confrontation with a feuding neighbor, he had shot and killed the neighbor's ...
Chicago Tribune Sam Smith column: Stars earn stripes.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Sam Smith Sep. 3--LAS VEGAS And now Kobe Bryant goes back to throwing passes to Kwame Brown. Or not. "Everybody was in the locker room after the game," Chauncey Billups was saying with a laugh, "and it was like, 'Oh man, it's back to reality.' ...
DePaul memos tell of run-ins with professor.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Ron Grossman Sep. 3--If embattled DePaul University professor Norman Finkelstein carries out his pledge to engage in civil disobedience at the start of the fall term Wednesday, it won't be his first confrontation with school administrators and campus police, according to ...
BRIEF: CAMPAIGN DIGEST: CAMPAIGN DIGEST.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Tribune Political Reporter Rick Pearson and News Services Sep. 3--TRUST DEFICIT: Republican presidential candidate John McCain contended on Sunday that the public's lack of trust in government was to blame for the failure of a comprehensive and controversial immigration ...
In Mexico, a showdown is defused: President, Congress reach compromise on state of union speech.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Oscar Avila Sep. 3--MEXICO CITY -- Opposition lawmakers forced President Felipe Calderon to deliver his state of the union speech Sunday, a day late. They made him speak at the National Palace instead of in Congress and kept him off live television. But in ...
EDITORIAL: Grand housing. In Lawndale.(Editorial)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Sep. 3--Along historic Douglas Boulevard on Chicago's West Side, the first-floor windows on many buildings aren't just boarded up with plywood, they're covered in steel. The drug trade thrives. One recent day at the corner of Douglas and Sawyer, an entrepreneur separated dime ...
Sale casts positive light on LEDs: Cooper Lighting enters niche market with $16 million deal to buy Vernon Hills-based IO.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Jon Van Sep. 3--Six years ago, Ann Reo saw the light and began building a business around it, one that sold last week for $16.65 million, with a future she predicts will only get brighter. Reo's firm, IO Lighting, makes lighting fixtures using light-emitting ...
Chicago Tribune Inside Technology column: Start-up wires money using wireless phone.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Jon Van Sep. 3--People use mobile phones to take photos, play music and send text messages, and maybe soon to send money to relatives abroad. That's the goal of a start-up company based in Rolling Meadows called aKos Technology Corp. and its founder, Daniel ...
Officials to shift Stebic strategy: Couple's children may get subpoenas.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Hal Dardick and Jo Napolitano Sep. 3--As tips diminish in the search for missing Plainfield mother Lisa Stebic, police are planning a summit with Will County prosecutors to map their next step in the case, officials said. One option is to subpoena Stebic's two ...
City promoting its all-day kindergartens: Full-day option better prepares pupils for 1st grade, officials say.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Carlos Sadovi Sep. 3--Over the last month, Claudia Mendoza has been preparing her daughter, Nicole, 5, for her first day of kindergarten by peppering her with tales about all the enjoyable books she will read and the fun she will have with her new teacher and fellow ...
Transit riders' fees cut as fare hikes loom.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Dan P. Blake Sep. 3--CTA and Pace announced temporary fee and price cuts in response to the possibility that the transit agencies will have to raise fares later if state legislators do not approve additional funding. In the hope that more riders will convert ...
Teamsters ready to try again: Job security, length of city deal at issue.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Gary Washburn Sep. 3--Leaders of the only union so far to turn down a new 10-year contract with Chicago will return to the bargaining table after Labor Day. "We're going to try to iron out some of our members' concerns," said Tom Clair, secretary-treasurer of ...
Pride, with beats and eats: Chicago's Puerto Rican community takes heritage to the streets in West Side festival.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: andrew L. Wang Sep. 3--A half-mile stretch of Division Street on Chicago's West Side was awash with the red, white and blue of the Puerto Rican flag Sunday as thousands took to the street to celebrate the culture of the tiny Caribbean island. An unblemished ...
BRIEF: Man charged with trying to abduct college student.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Sep. 3--ELGIN -- An Elgin man was arrested Saturday on charges he tried unsuccessfully last month to abduct a female student from the parking lot of Elgin Community College. Thomas Siebert, 52, was charged with attempted kidnapping, unlawful restraint and two counts of ...
BRIEF: Mom charged in beating of 3-month-old daughter.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Sep. 3--CHICAGO -- A South Side woman is accused of beating her infant daughter so severely that the girl was left with several broken bones, Cook County prosecutors said Sunday in Bond Court. On Aug. 13, Ashana Brown, 29, of the 7200 block of South Woodlawn Avenue, laid the ...
BRIEF: Bail set in rape of partially paralyzed woman.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Sep. 3--Bail was set at $350,000 Sunday for a man accused of raping a South Side woman who was unable to fight him off because she is partially paralyzed, prosecutors said. Chazz Collins, 19, of the 2300 block of Holiday Terrace in Lansing went to the 26-year-old woman's home in ...
BRIEF: Drowning death seen as homicide.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Sep. 3--The weekend drowning death of a Chicago man is being investigated as a homicide. Du Doan, 62, of the 6100 block of North Kimball Avenue, was pulled from Lake Michigan near Montrose Harbor at about 5:40 a.m. Saturday, authorities said. Paramedics attempted to ...
Police officer catches suspect in scooter chase.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Dan P. Blake Sep. 3--THE CHASE WAS ON -- on a Segway. Chicago Police Officer Thaddeus Martyka was patrolling and writing parking citations on his motorized scooter at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday in the 2100 block of South Michigan Avenue when he heard gunfire and ...
Kathryn Chandler: 1916 - 2007: Worked for dad as private detective.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Jeff Long Sep. 3--Kathryn Chandler, who learned to shoot when she was just 6 years old, was among the first women in Chicago to get a private investigator license, which she used while working for her dad in the 1930s as they shadowed mob figures and cheating husbands. ...
No more secrets for rattled Irish: Hoping to pick up the pieces, Weis to name QB Tuesday.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Brian Hamilton Sep. 3--SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Charlie Weis' wardrobe selection Sunday: white shirt free of wrinkles, tie, blue dress slacks. No cloak. No dagger, presumably. Notre Dame wasn't victimized by big plays in the passing game the previous afternoon, but ...
BRIEF: Father, son slain at Far South Side home: A relative is in custody.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Jeremy Gorner Sep. 3--A father who recently beat cancer and his son were fatally stabbed in their Far South Side home by a relative Sunday night, Chicago police said this morning. The relative was in custody this morning, but no charges have been filed. ...
Lebanese army ends siege at refugee camp: Bloody 15-week standoff over, but threat from militants may not be.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Liz Sly Sep. 3--BEIRUT -- The Lebanese army declared victory Sunday in its 15-week-old war against Islamic radicals holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, after a fierce final battle in which the last of the militants there were killed, captured or ...
BRIEF: DUI alleged in car crash that hurt 3.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Sep. 3--An Elgin man was charged with driving under the influence Sunday morning after a one-car accident in Kane County that injured him and two passengers. According to the Kane County Sheriff's Department, Bryan Schultz, 21, was driving south on McGough Road in Burlington ...
Chicago Tribune At Random: Magazines column: At work, we've never had it so easy.(Column)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: James Warren Sep. 3--With summer receding, we feel the dyspepsia caused by contemplating a full fall and winter of work. Woe is us, BlackBerry- and cell phone-toting laborers, trapped in the exhausting ways of a 24-7 culture where the umbilical cord to the office is ...
Chicago Tribune Rick Morrissey column: Wood just glad he can still be of help (knock on wood).(Column)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Rick Morrissey Sep. 3--There are some of us, though fewer of us by the day, who are willing to admit we thought it was a bad idea for the Cubs to bring back Kerry Wood during this promising season. It was a thought process based on his lengthy injury history ...
Chicago Tribune Teddy Greenstein column: Enjoying life in the fast lane.(Column)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Teddy Greenstein Sep. 3--DEL.ICIO.US / LOGIN POPULAR -- recent login -- register -- help To see more of the Chicago Tribune, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.chicagotribune.com. Copyright (c) 2007, Chicago ...
Chicago Tribune David Haugh column: Bears' offensive line oldest?possibly best.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: David Haugh Sep. 3--Suddenly the Bears' shiny new offense doesn't look so new at all. Their new toy, tight end Greg Olsen, has been put on the shelf temporarily with a sprained left knee, suffered Thursday in the final exhibition game against the Browns. ...
Cubs flip the switch on another 1-run win.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Sullivan Sep. 3--It was just another unconventional moment in the season, but it all worked out fine for the Cubs. Manager Lou Piniella was about to make a double switch in the top of the seventh inning Sunday but was busy arguing with plate umpire Tony ...
Chicago Tribune Phil Rogers column: Oh, no-no, Orioles can't slam door on downward slide.(Column)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Phil Rogers Sep. 3--When Cal Ripken Jr. went into the Hall of Fame in July, it left Baltimore baseball fans with nothing left to look forward to. The beginning of the Dave Trembley era is typical of the karma generated by this once-proud franchise since Peter Angelos ...
Breaking in is hard to do: For lineman from Notre Dame, making practice squad is big.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Vaughn McClure Sep. 3--On paper, it was a disastrous weekend for Mark LeVoir. For starters, LeVoir was one of the players the Bears waived Saturday afternoon. At the same time the cuts were released, LeVoir was at Notre Dame Stadium watching his Irish get ...
India horse an Arlington first: Holding Court to get long-awaited start in Rossi Gold Stakes.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Neil Milbert Sep. 3--Arlington Park has had countless thoroughbred visitors from abroad since the inauguration of the Arlington Million in 1981 but never one from India. Until now. Born and hitherto raced in India, 5-year-old Holding Court will become the ...
Olsen says MRI showed no structural damage: Rookie tight end says knee injury is 'nothing too serious'.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Vaughn McClure Sep. 3--Greg Olsen emerged from the Bears locker room Monday with a slight limp but no special equipment to support his left knee. That's progress, considering the way the rookie tight end looked after leaving Thursday's exhibition with the ...
Chicago Tribune Getting Around column: Midway's runway do-over.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Jon Hilkevitch Sep. 3--Potentially dangerous pavement blowouts that began occurring on Midway Airport's busiest runway shortly after repairs four months ago are prompting Chicago officials to redo all of the work as a safety precaution. Some 129 epoxy-based ...
BRIEF: 2 relatives killed in Canada crash.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Sep. 3--Two members of an extended family from McHenry County were killed and six others were injured when their van rolled several times in the median of a Canadian highway over the weekend, police said Sunday. Poonambehi Patel, 65, a male passenger in the Dodge mini-van, died ...
BRIEF: Man slain, woman hurt in shooting.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Sep. 3--SOUTH SIDE -- A Chicago man was fatally shot and a woman injured Saturday night at a party on the South Side, police said. Officers responded about 11:15 to a call of a person shot in a vacant lot at 6000 S. State St., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Henry ....
5 reasons I love App State.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Manya Brachear Sep. 3--For starters, it's pronounced app-uh-LATCH-an. Or as we alumni like to call it: the Harvard of the High Country. Here are five reasons why I busted with pride when my alma mater triumphed over the University of Michigan in the Big House on ...
Lee seconds Zambrano's view on booing.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Sullivan CHICAGO _ Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee came to Carlos Zambrano's defense on Monday, saying Cubs fans should cut Big Z some slack when he has a poor outing. "I'm not a big fan of the booing at home," Lee said. "Maybe if it's a lack of effort, ...
Dodgers hammer Zambrano, Cubs, 11-3.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Sullivan CHICAGO _ Carlos Zambrano bit the hand that feeds him Monday afternoon at Wrigley Field, ripping Cubs fans for booing him off the mound after another in a series of erratic outings. As he walked to the dugout after being removed in the fifth ...
Candidates spend Labor Day in early primary states.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Mike Dorning and Rick Pearson MANCHESTER, N.H. _ Barack Obama spoke of "hope and change" on Monday, kicking off his fall campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination at a rally where he told voters that those words are not just rhetoric but rather "the causes of ...
In Lebanon, militant threat lingers.
Sep 03, 2007 ... Byline: Liz Sly NAHR EL-BARED, Lebanon _ Rabieh al-Masri returned to his little supermarket on the front line of the battleground between the Lebanese army and Islamic militants Monday morning _ the first time he had been open for business since the fighting erupted 3 { months ...
Twins Cities' slow road to recovery.
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: John McCormick MINNEAPOLIS _ Commuting from his downtown job at the Hennepin County Medical Center to his suburban home used to take Oge Alozie about 10 minutes. Now, it is often closer to 45 minutes. Like tens of thousands of others, the internal medicine ...
Dish from Diana's chef.
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Bill Daley Diana, princess of Wales, died 10 years ago Aug. 31, and the anniversary was being marked by a spate of stories, TV segments, books, even commemorative coins. Now entering what Prince William views as the "cottage industry" that has sprung up around his late ...
Memories of Mama inspire tomato-rich meal.
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Joe Gray A recent lunch with my former Italian instructor led to talk of good food and her memory of a favorite dish made by her mother. The dish sounded like a great candidate for a quick weeknight dinner, so I immediately asked for the recipe. Susan ...
The title game: Mary, Miss Mary or Ms. Smith?
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Heidi Stevens I can't decide which is worse: the prospect of raising a rude child, or the prospect of calling my friends Miss Karen and Mister Mike. Some people can pull it off, the practice of tacking a courtesy title onto an adult's first name. It teaches ...
Fresh Finds: Zuchini.
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Renee Enna DID YOU KNOW? Italian immigrants are credited with introducing this now-familiar summer squash to the United States, writes Aliza Green in "Field Guide to Produce." Zucca is the Italian word for squash. And abbondanza is the Italian word ...
Why can't Lei honor King?
Sep 04, 2007 ... The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, Aug. 31: X X X Plans to erect a giant statue of Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall in Washington have run up against a protest that is filled with irony. Some people object to the sculptor _ ...
Fresh seasonal peaches make a creamy and delicious ice cream.(Recipe)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Donna Pierce A recent request for small-batch ice cream recipes to use in smaller electric ice-cream machines motivated Penny Pennington of Livermore, Calif., to offer her delicious recipe for peach ice cream. "This is the easiest and most basic I have ever ...
Staying invested can be rewarding, but keep watch.
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Gail MarksJarvis Sometimes you just can't win. Lately that's been the case for people who own mutual funds that invest in stocks. If you have the average fund that invests in large U.S. company stocks you probably have lost about 6 percent of the ...
The resourceful traveler.
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: J.D. Brown and Margaret Backenheimer SPECIALTY TRAVEL _"The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys" (Penguin Books; $16.00) This collection of 21 travel pieces from the first 20 years of Conde Nast Traveler magazine delivers some real ...
The Top 10 travel list: On the boardwalk.
Sep 04, 2007 ... The top American boardwalks: 1. Atlantic City, N.J. 2. Coney Island, N.Y. 3. Kemah, Texas 4. Mission Beach, Calif. 5. Ocean City, Md. 6. Ocean City, N.J. 7. Rehoboth Beach, Del. 8. Santa Cruz, ...
Travel briefs.
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Margaret Backenheimer INTO THE WOODS BY JEEP TO FIND MICHIGAN IN FULL LEAF The colorful, leaf-strewn logging tracks of Manistee National Forest and Pere Marquette State Forest are the setting for a 243-mile, off-road Jeep safari. In addition to taking in the ...
In vulnerable north, Iraqis await a vote on future.
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Liz Sly MAKHMUR, Iraq _ Fears are rising in this dust-bowl town, where the mercury routinely hits 120 degrees in summer and hopes are just as high that Makhmur soon will become part of the relatively safe region of Kurdistan. Makhmur currently lies in the ...
The hotel gem in Peoria's crown.
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Jason George PEORIA, Ill. _ The first day the Hotel Pere Marquette opened in 1927 about 16,000 people came out to observe what was arguably the nicest hotel between Chicago and St. Louis. For the next five decades, heads of state and celebrities alike visited the Pere, ...
`Bubble gum' pours have a place in the lazy days of summer.
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Bill Daley "Bubble gum" wines are the oenological equivalent of the summer paperback: juicy and cheap. Let's face it: the hot days and nights of August demand a drink that's as gloriously a no-brainer as that book stashed in your beach bag. Instead of turning to beer or ...
Chicago Tribune Skip Myslenski column: Wildcats enjoy winning feeling.(Column)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Skip Myslenski Sep. 4--This was early Monday afternoon and Pat Fitzgerald, the Northwestern coach, was reflecting on Michigan's stunning loss to Appalachian State. He first noted the parity in college football and then, quickly, turned to his own team's 27-0 Saturday win ...
Chicago Tribune Ed Sherman column: Mickelson may leave BMW idling.
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Ed Sherman Sep. 4--It should have been a great day for the PGA Tour and its new FedEx Cup. For the first time in a long while, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods were playing together in a final-round pairing with the tournament on the line. Mickelson got off to ...
Chicago Tribune Eric Zorn column: Night owl needs nap after bid to be early bird.(Column)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Eric Zorn Sep. 4--I'm writing this at 5 a.m., the finest time of the day. The house is still. The phone is quiet. The coffee is hot. And my brain is ... Well, I'm not sure. It feels as though it's stuffed with packing peanuts and surgical gauze ....
Descent seen for airfares: 'The world will be on sale': Analysts expect carriers to cut prices to attract customers.
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Julie Johnsson Sep. 4--If Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of the summer, then it also marks the start of what may be a softening air-travel market this autumn, full of good deals for travelers and potential migraines for airline executives. An ...