Suggests it was ‘Chicago-style politics.’

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John Wall squared up against the player whose career he would most like to duplicate and did his best to trade him acrobatic layup for head-scratching layup. And for a half, Wall held his own against Derrick Rose , the reigning league’s most valuable player, unwilling to get upstaged on his home turf. Read full article > >

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Wizards vs. Bulls: Derrick Rose leads Chicago past John Wall and Washington, 98-88

Robert Falls was, to put it bluntly, tired of hearing himself talk. Decades in the rehearsal room had, in his mind, calcified his directorial style. The process worked well for him, of course, as he has spent 26 highly productive years as head of Chicago’s Goodman Theatre and along the way earned a Tony Award for his direction of the 1999 Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman,” with Brian Dennehy as Willy Loman. Read full article > >

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From Lear to Rothko, a director who wields a big brush

Mark Steven Kirk, who won President Obama’s Senate seat in 2010, was admitted to a Chicago-area hospital over the weekend after suffering a stroke.

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When President Obama has a bad day, or more specifically, on days when the economic news has been bad, I get a slew of feedback from conservative readers that go like this: “See, you liberal media nincompoops, this is all your fault, you treated Obama like a saint when he was running in 2007 and 2008 and you didn’t vet him, investigate him, report on him skeptically. You were so fawning (and adoring of his blackness), you missed that he was a (pick your adjective), radical, socialist, Muslim, inexperienced, dangerous, corrupt, weak Chicago politician with no track record of accomplishment, whose only talent is giving speeches.” Read full article > >

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Scrutinize President Obama’s record

Kit LaCroix credits two things with her recovery from a psychological breakdown that became the bleakest chapter of her life: the steady love of Bennett Mace and the rise of the Occupy movement. LaCroix had been happy in Chicago, where she failed to finish art school but found work waiting tables in a pub. She tamed the social anxiety that first appeared during college and relished the banter with customers as much as the solitude of her studio apartment. Then the recession hit, her tips dried up and for two months in a row she couldn’t make rent. Read full article > >

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On Love: ‘I see in you the fire of life’

In a suburban Virginia living room, Earline Coe, solid Democrat and Obama loyalist, dials again. “Hello, may I speak with Ellen?” she says, tapping a pen on a long list of names. It is supposed to be a good list, one generated by the Obama campaign’s data wonks in Chicago, who have sorted their files of millions of voters and identified these as likely recruits in a renewed version of the vaunted grass-roots operation that propelled Obama’s 2008 victory. Read full article > >

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Obama’s backers put out calls for support

CHICAGO — The plane ride from Washington late Tuesday night was much more lively after the Wizards earned their first win of the season. And upon their arrival at United Center, they had more reason to feel enthused when league most valuable player Derrick Rose was seen walking through the arena with a walking boot on his left foot. Read full article > >

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Wizards vs. Bulls: Washington hits franchise-low point total in 78-64 loss

Says president is playing ‘Chicago-style politics.’

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Romney Slams Obama’s Pick

ChicagoShovels.org will track the clearing of streets and encourage residents to pitch in after storms.

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CHICAGO — Darkness was beginning to envelop the city of Chicago late Friday afternoon, but at President Obama’s reelection headquarters the vast open room that houses the campaign staff was still packed with workers. Jim Messina, the campaign manager, said there would be no New Year’s weekend passes for his army. Read full article > >

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Obama campaign as it also gears up for Iowa: ‘We’re ready’ for general election

CHICAGO — One is a healthy first-grader, the other an honors college student majoring in psychology. Once the tiniest babies ever born, both girls are thriving, despite long odds when they entered the world weighing less than a pound. A medical report from the doctor who resuscitated the infants at a suburban Chicago hospital is both a success story and a cautionary tale. These two are the exceptions and their remarkable health years later should not raise false hope: Most babies this small do poorly and many do not survive even with advanced medical care. Read full article > >

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Born smaller than soda cans, tiniest babies are growing up healthy; docs say most not so lucky

In May 2010, Intersections International , an interfaith non-profit based in New York City, opened a one-on-one dialogue about the role the LGBT community has within Islam, with about 50 Muslim theologians, religious practitioners, academics and laypeople from U.S. cities with high populations of Muslims, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dearborn, MI.

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Queer Jihad: The Truth About How American Muslims Feel about LGBT Issues

CHICAGO — With years behind bars at stake, disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday gets a final shot at trying to persuade a federal judge to show him mercy. Blagojevich was expected to address Judge James Zagel on what’s shaped up as the climactic second day of his sentencing hearing. Shortly after he speaks, Judge James Zagel is expected to announce just how long the 54-year-old will spend in prison for 18 corruption counts that include his attempt to auction off President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat. Read full article > >

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With last word before sentencing, ousted Illinois Gov. Blagojevich to ask judge for mercy

CHICAGO — Teen sexting of nude photos online or via cellphone may be far less common than people think, new research suggests. Only 1 percent of kids aged 10 to 17 have shared images of themselves or others that involve explicit nudity, a nationally representative study found. Roughly the same number said they’d shared suggestive but less graphic photos; while 7 percent said they’d received either type of picture. Read full article > >

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Teen sexting of photos may be less common than thought, depending on definition, research says