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AFTERNOON SPORTS CLUB Who will make the grade at Bears training camp?

Neil Hayes: As players file in to Bourbonnais for the start of training camp today, here's a position-by-position look at the Bears on paper before the pads start popping.

Entertainment

Bon Jovi gets a leg up Thomas Conner: Jon Bon Jovi is standing up. The only reason that's news is because he blew out a calf muscle on stage July 9 during a concert at New Meadowlands Stadium in his home state of New Jersey. "I got another leg," he told the crowd. "I don't need this one." He hobbled back to the microphone and finished the show with "Livin' on a Prayer." "The leg's back now, miraculously, with all the rehab I've had," Bon Jovi told the Sun-Times in an interview Wednesday.
Music Blog: In tune with Thomas Conner

Business

Wary of 'smart' meters As the "smart meters" that give homeowners details about their electric use make their way into the Chicago market, consumers in some other places aren't welcoming the new gadgets. The meters, which use wireless technology to give homeowners details about their electric use and pricing, are raising concerns in California and Texas about their accuracy, feared health effects, the newness of the technology and Big Brother edicts. In California, Santa Cruz County and the cities of Scotts Valley and San Francisco asked the state to stop the local utility from installing the smart meters.

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