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New shows for Fox, Cartoon Network could be next step for star stand-up Back in the summer, when we last left Hannibal Buress, he had sold out 16 shows at Zanies Comedy Club in Old Town. A son of the West Side, a veteran of Chicago’s stand-up circuit,...
Brian DeFrees brings us a time-lapse video of his two month road trip across the United States this summer. If you must see our fair city, start at 4:32, but the whole video is pretty fun, and worth the watching time. [ more › ] Go here to read the...
Sveum is widely respected within baseball, although his stint as the Red Sox’s third-base coach seems somewhat controversial . But he was there when the team won the World Series in 2004, so he’s undoubtedly familiar with the methods of Cubs’...
Kenyan Moses Mosop, who missed more than a month of training this summer because of the nagging injury, rose to the occasion to capture the Bank of America Chicago in impressive fashion Sunday. Excerpt from: Mosop blazes new trail in Chicago Marathon Read More →
Teachers, students and family gathered under rainy skies Tuesday at St. Emily Elementary School in Mount Prospect to dedicate a memorial prayer garden to Molly Kohl, a 10-year-old student who died of leukemia over the summer. Molly was heading into the...
Elgin firefighter John Tobin of West Dundee found an old New York Fire Department truck in a Wisconsin junkyard and spent the summer restoring it to its original condition. He’s now giving it to the firehouse where it once was housed, in Queens,...
A rare up-close tour shows how controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration’s Chicago Center in Aurora work. A good controller “has a Type A personality,” veteran employee Toby Hauck explains. “You need to make quick, correct...
Every night across the suburbs, you hear them. Oooo-eee–ooo. Ooo-eee–ooo. The cicadas, crickets and katydids have been unusually noisy this summer, and you have the heat to thank for that. Read the rest here: Hot and loud: High temps bring...
There have been very few bright spots in our summer of discontent, a summer full of nothing but lockout talk and middling-to-awful baseball. So how refreshing is it to have a team pop out of nowhere to give us something to smile about? Here is the original: One...
