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    Jul 11, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Widespread drought causes corn prices to surge; grocery goods next?

    Massive swaths of Midwest farmland are suffering through one of the most widespread droughts in history, causing corn prices to soar as the USDA scales back its predictions for a record crop.
    Massive swaths of Midwest farmland are suffering through one of the most widespread droughts in history, causing corn prices to soar as the USDA scales back its predictions for a record crop. Corn farmers are expected to yield an average of 146 bushels...

    Tags: Weather Reports, Natural Disasters, Weather, Consumers, U.S. Department of Agriculture

    2. Aug 9, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  2. Dow soars 429 points after Fed makes new pledge on rates

    Money & Company
    The Dow Jones industrial average surged Tuesday, ending a volatile session up nearly 430 points after the Federal Reserve pledged to keep short-term interest rates near zero for at least two more years. The blue-chip index gyrated throughout the session.....
    3. Oct 26, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Ruth Duckworth dies at 90; modernist sculptor and muralist

    Ruth Duckworth, a noted modernist sculptor and muralist who created abstract ceramic forms for pieces breathtakingly large and charmingly small in her studio in a renovated Chicago pickle plant, has died. She was 90.
    Times Staff And Wire Reports
    Ruth Duckworth, a noted modernist sculptor and muralist who created abstract ceramic forms for pieces breathtakingly large and charmingly small in her studio in a renovated Chicago pickle plant, has died. She was 90. Duckworth died Oct. 18 at a Chicago...

    Tags: Health and Safety at School, World War II (1939-1945), Material Science, Building Material, Civil Unrest

    4. Mar 4, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Artwork from Michael Crichton's personal collection going on sale

    Culture Monster
    In such bestselling novels as "Jurassic Park," "The Andromeda Strain" and "Disclosure," Michael Crichton demonstrated a fascination with the glimmering, shiny complexities of the contemporary high-tech world. As it turns out, the late author's taste in...
    5. Apr 2, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Art review: Andreas Gursky at Gagosian Gallery

    Culture Monster
    The grandiose differs from the grand in its need to make a spectacular impression. Size matters, and looking important trumps all. The German photographer Andreas Gursky has been making grandiose art for years. Some of his enormous, impossibly precise...
    6. Feb 14, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Northern Illinois University shooting leaves 6 dead, 16 wounded

    Chicago Tribune reporters
    A gunman dressed in black stormed into an oceanography class at Northern Illinois University Thursday afternoon and opened fire with a shotgun and two handguns, killing five students and wounding 16 more in a matter of seconds. Then, still on stage, he...

    Tags: Health and Safety at School, Hospitals and Clinics, Virginia Tech, Crimes, Science

    7. May 20, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. The housing bubble's silver lining

    DANIEL GROSS, who writes the "Moneybox" column for Slate, is the author of "Pop! Why Bubbles Are Great for the Economy."
    THE ONCE-buoyant housing market is clearly in trouble. Last year, housing prices around the country fell for the first year since the Depression. In Southern California, one of the epicenters of the housing and housing-credit bubble, the pain has been...

    Tags: Consumers, Financially Distressed Companies, Real Estate Agents, Track and Field, WorldCom Incorporated

    8. May 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Road between drivers, cyclists threatens to widen

    One morning as Rick Cunningham drove to work at the Chicago Board of Trade, he signaled to a cyclist on his right that he was going to pass the car in front of him. As Cunningham merged back into his lane, apparently close to the biker, the cyclist did something he did not expect.
    One morning as Rick Cunningham drove to work at the Chicago Board of Trade, he signaled to a cyclist on his right that he was going to pass the car in front of him. As Cunningham merged back into his lane, apparently close to the biker, the cyclist did...

    Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Services and Shopping, Crime, Law and Justice, Wicker Park, Near North Side

    9. May 9, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Inverness cold case: Wife accused of plotting husband's 1979 slaying

    Just before 2 p.m. on April 30, 1979, the doorbell sounded at a sprawling Inverness ranch home. A 5-year-old girl opened the door to find two men with nylon stockings pulled over their faces.
    Just before 2 p.m. on April 30, 1979, the doorbell sounded at a sprawling Inverness ranch home. A 5-year-old girl opened the door to find two men with nylon stockings pulled over their faces. The men tied up the girl, two of her siblings and the...

    Tags: Shootings, Adultery, Prosecution, Heart Attack, Lawyers

    10. May 7, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. Emanuel to propose nine additional food-truck parking spaces

    Chicago will increase its number of dedicated food-truck parking spaces to 30 from the current total of 21, under a proposal to be presented to the City Council by Mayor Rahm Emanuel today.
    Tribune critic
    Chicago will increase its number of dedicated food-truck parking spaces to 30 from the current total of 21, under a proposal to be presented to the City Council by Mayor Rahm Emanuel today. Working in collaboration with the Chicago Department of...

    Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Wrigleyville, South Loop, Chicago Loop, North Pond

    11. Apr 29, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. ICE joins CME in whittling electronic grain trading hours

    IntercontinentalExchange is taking a cue from rival CME Group in reducing its electronic grain trading hours.
    IntercontinentalExchange is taking a cue from rival CME Group in reducing its electronic grain trading hours. Beginning May 31, trading at ICE will begin the week at 5 p.m. Central on Sunday and run to 1:30 p.m. Central on Monday, according to a...

    Tags: Electronics, IntercontinentalExchange, Inc., Science and Technology, CME Group Inc.

    12. Apr 14, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. Going the distance, with careers in 2 cities

    Sandra Smith was starting her first day as a sales trader in Chicago.
    Sandra Smith was starting her first day as a sales trader in Chicago. Leaving her second post-college job at a hedge fund in New York, she was back in the city where she grew up and where several members of her family had worked in the financial trading...

    Tags: Air Transportation Delays, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Arts, Holy Name Cathedral, Commodity Markets

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