December 2017

Chess champion refuses to defend titles…

A Ukrainian chess champion is prepared to lose her two world titles rather than defend…
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Fact-checking ‘The Crown’:…

In late October of 1937, Adolf Hitler welcomed a rather well-known couple to his mountain…
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Fire damages two units in Aurora apartment…

A propane heater being used to thaw frozen water pipes is being blamed for an Aurora…
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Conversion of Elgin’s historic…

Downtown Elgin is set to start the new year with the iconic Tower Building ready for…
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3 months after Maria, barely half of…

Puerto Rico authorities said Friday that nearly half of power customers in the…
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Locally produced TV pilot pays tribute…

Once upon a time there was a bookstore — and a very fine bookstore it was that…
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End of Japanese rice market controls…

The end of Japan's four decades of rice-market control could be good news for noodle…
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Woman critical, man dead after domestic…

A man shot and critically wounded a woman and then shot and killed himself late Friday…
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CPS teachers get chance to research…

Teachers and students will get a chance to spend summers researching cancer through a…
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After dispute over epitaph, tombstone…

A son says his late mother finally will be able to rest in peace now that a dispute with…
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Anticipated parole of infamous Ripper…

Thirty-five years ago, a scavenger searching for aluminum cans along railroad tracks…
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Chicago collective puts black characters…

When Chris Adams was a teen growing up in the Far South Side’s Roseland area,…
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