Beverly Woods Restaurant owner Bill McGann is unsure about what to expect this weekend without the South Side Irish Parade.
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Tired of his team's casual efforts, Illinois coach Bruce Weber amped up practice this week, making the losers run after intense scrimmages.
''That made the point that it's important to play hard,'' center Mike Tisdale said.
That helped the Illini make their point to the NCAA tournament selection committee. With their backs to the wall, they defeated Wisconsin 58-54 on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament.
Dr. Mona Khanna, an Oakbrook Terrace physician, is in Haiti working on relief efforts in the wake of the earthquake there. Khanna is working with a team from AMURT, an international volunteer disaster-relief group, and she is writing occasional dispatches for the Sun-Times.
Photos: Local doctor in Haiti
Children line up during orphanage visit
'Haiti is a country of mostly have-nots'
It takes a certain outsized sense of self to stand in the spotlight and
deliver for 15,000 people, whether one is shredding a guitar solo,
swishing a jump shot or giving a speech. But even by the egocentric
standards of arena rock, the UK power trio Muse is particularly
grandiose. If all that makes Muse sound anachronistic — more likely to have topped
the charts when glam- and prog-rock dinosaurs roamed the earth toting
triple-LPs than in today's disposable download world — they are.
Imagine living in a city powered by geothermal energy from hot springs, where trains run on solar energy and where all of the children own a computer.
The city, Tsumefang, is the brainchild of students at the IIT Math and Science Academy/Perspectives Charter school at 3663 S. Wabash, who competed in this year's Chicago Regional National Engineers Week Future City competition. This year's Future City competition had a depressingly prescient
assignment for the students: Design an affordable living space for
people who have lost their homes because of a disaster or financial
emergency.
Vote: Worst cities to drive
Mazda CX-9: Improved
@#$%! Bleeping trains!
Geneva: Show for show-offs
VW GTI: Road fun
Lexus GX: Off-road luxury
Jeep: Good in snow
Quick-thinking mom leads to rape arrest
Beverly gears up for St. Pat's Day without parade
Reputed mobster Fratto arrested on bid-rigging charge 
Mother charged with killing 7-month-old daughter 
Cadet claims he was fired over voice
