While the bid to privatize parking meters could fill the city's budget gap, motorists will almost certainly pay more to park at metered spaces. Mayor Daley has called a special City Council meeting for Thursday to consider the deal.
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Here's the problem with the Bears' plan to win out and get some help in the chase for the NFC North title: They have not won more than two consecutive games since 2006.
The ESPN highlights of the Bulls' victory Sunday over the Philadelphia 76ers consisted of three plays: Derrick Rose running down Andre Miller to block what appeared to be a breakaway layup as a stunned Miller looked back in wonderment.
If not for a 5-2 loss Saturday at Los Angeles, coach Joel Quenneville would have called the Blackhawks' 3-2-1 road trip a resounding success. ''Yeah, 4-1-1, we would have taken that,'' he said after practice Monday. ''Now, 3-2-1 is OK. We just had a chance to have a great road trip and didn't accomplish it."
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The newly renovated Palmer House Hilton, with its intricately carved vaulted ceilings, crystal chandeliers and regal-toned curtains and carpeting, served as the perfect backdrop to the Service Club's recent Exclusively Elegant Evening ball. Couture gowns and dapper tuxes were the norm as the 450 guests celebrated the Chicago philanthropic organization's 118th year of service.
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Jim DeRogatis: For more than two years, Dan Ponce has been a reporter for the WLS-Channel 7 news team, doing countless interviews with men and women in the street and the sort of "Well, Ron, the snow is really coming down here on the Edens" live stand-ups so beloved of newscasts. 
It was online retailers' turn to offer doorbuster sales Monday, the day workers used their spare time with high-speed Internet access to snag bargains. Retailers offered discounts up to 75 percent and free shipping. The National Retail Federation started Cyber Monday three years ago as a way to keep shoppers' interest in doorbuster sales that kick off the holiday. 
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