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IKEA Announces Plans for Kansas City-area Store
Swedish furniture store IKEA announced it will be opening its first Kansas store in 2014. The proposed store will be located in Merriam, KS, on the southeastern corner of Interstate-35 and Johnson Drive. A vacant shopping center will be demolished...
Tags: Schaumburg, IKEA
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A version of David Foster Wallace's life
When the great English poet Philip Larkin worked at the University of Hull, he liked to say that the need to change trains in Doncaster meant most journalists, academics and other London irritants didn't bother to harass him. The American writer David...
Tags: Illinois State University, Chris Jones, Authors, Chicago Tribune, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
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Fatal cab crash: 'It flipped four times'
Tribune reportersA University of Chicago business school student was struck and killed by a cab that veered off Milwaukee Avenue in the River West neighborhood this morning, hit a light pole and flipped over several times, authorities said. Eric Kerestes, 30, was...Tags: John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Colleges and Universities, University of Chicago, CVS Corp.
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State Farm no longer there for Penn State
State Farm Insurance has pulled direct sponsorship of Penn State football for the 2012 season in the wake of the sex abuse scandal at the university, a spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. The decision by the Bloomington, Ill.-based company was made in the...Tags: Sports, Insurance, College Football, Economy, Business and Finance, Pennsylvania Statue University Sexual Abuse Scandal (2012)
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Bloomington police investigate apartment complex shooting
One person was fatally shot early Wednesday, just one block away from where hundreds of people were gathering to apply for Section 8 housing in Bloomington, Ind. Officers with the Bloomington Police Department responded to the 1000 block of North...
Tags: Prosecution, Public Housing, Shootings, Witnesses, Section 8 (housing)
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Police: Several 'credible tips' received weekly in Lauren Spierer case
The Bloomington Police Department released a statement Thursday, just days before the one year anniversary of the disappearance of Indiana University student Lauren Spierer. Police said the investigation is still “very active” and several...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities, Students, Indiana University, Teaching and Learning
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Tackling the office tattler
Attention fishermen and fisherwomen, loggers, aircraft pilots and farmers. Your jobs are very dangerous.
If you had not already been keyed into this by the sharks, falling trees, stalled engines and giant, scary, wheat-thrashing thingies, the Bureau of...Tags: Rex Huppke, Career and Workplace, Employees, Chicago Tribune Columnists
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Verdugo Views: Studebaker dealer was active Glendale citizen
Stephen Packer left home at the very young age of 17, off to seek his fortune in the logging business. Eventually he made his way to Glendale where he became a prosperous auto dealer. Packer, born in Bloomington, Ill., in 1866, was the son of a prominent...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Ford, Passenger Cars, Vehicles, Harrison Ford
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Police investigate possible connection between Lauren Spierer, murder suspect
The Bloomington Police Department said they are investigating if a man accused of murdering several women in southern Indiana is linked to missing Indiana University student Lauren Spierer. Bloomington police said a detective has been assigned to...
Tags: Police Investigations, Health and Safety at School, Sex Crimes, Trials, Indiana University
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Radar Eyes: They love melody, chaos, cassettes
The drums, as Sonic Youth might say, pound an expressway through your skull. The bass forcefully walks the divide between rhythm and melody. Guitars throw a curtain of dirt over everything, and then smear it around. Beneath all the mayhem, melodies emerge...Tags: Disappears (music group), Entertainment, Columbia College Chicago, Alsip, Arts and Culture
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What everyone should know about the child survivor of a family tragedy
When 3-year-old Joseph Wallace was hanged by his mentally ill mother in April 1993, months after the courts removed him from the loving foster parents who begged to keep him, the case became a catalyst for Illinois to overhaul its troubled child welfare...
Tags: Illinois State University, Chicago Tribune, Facebook
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Bloomington police inquire about remains found in Illinois
The Bloomington Police Department is awaiting results from an investigation after skeletal remains were discovered in a remote area of eastern Illinois. WEHT-TV reported the remains were found in the woods near Newton, Ill. on March 10. The town is...
Tags: Indiana University
Sep 27, 2012
|Story| Fetchtoto
Sep 14, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Aug 14, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jul 24, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jul 25, 2012
|Column| WXIN-LTV
May 31, 2012
|Column| WXIN-LTV
Aug 29, 2011
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jan 10, 2012
|Story| Glendale News Press
May 3, 2012
|Column| WXIN-LTV
Mar 21, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 23, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Apr 2, 2012
|Column| WXIN-LTV
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