Gov. Rod Blagojevich approaches the media to answer questions after Tuesday's ceremony to dedicate the Emil and Patricia Jones Convocation Center at Chicago State University.
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Reputations are difficult to shake, not that Kyle Orton cares one bit. One prognosticator in Detroit picked the Lions to win their first game Sunday against the Bears. His reasoning? The Lions were not so bad that they couldn't beat Orton at Ford Field.
Nikolai Khabibulin returned to the Blackhawks’ training camp Tuesday and was listed on what general manager Dale Tallon called his season-opening roster. Tallon must submit a 23-man roster by 3 p.m. on Wednesday in advance of Friday’s opening game against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.
Chris De Luca: They stopped playing postseason baseball in the Midwest on Monday. No more Cubs. No more Brewers. And now no more White Sox.
Andrew Herrmann: Jose Cardenal roamed the Wrigley Field outfield in the 1970s, a favorite with a lot of fans but especially so for certain females -- despite a bushy afro that, bursting from beneath his Cubbie ball cap, made him look more like Bozo than a ballplayer.
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The method is far from scientific, but Halloween stores are predicting the winner in the presidential election, and there’s no exit polling needed — only political mask sales. Halloween suppliers say sales of masks of presidential candidates have predicted the winner in the last several campaigns. So far, that’s good news for Barack Obama, whose mask is outselling John McCain’s at several national retailers.
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Roger Ebert: It was a night out of your dreams. We'd been invited by James Bond, the famed projection wizard, to see the new Kinowerks post-production and screening facility he designed and built on Chicago's north side. You have James to thank if you've ever attended the Grant Park outdoor film festival or Ebertfest. He'd arranged with Robert Harris, the famed restoration wizard, to show us Paramount's new print of "The Godfather."
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Stocks extended their declines Tuesday as enthusiasm over the Federal Reserve's latest efforts to inject frozen credit markets with a dose of much-needed confidence gave way to concerns about financial companies' balance sheets. Trading remained fractious, with the Dow Jones industrial average losing about 150 points.
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