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Conn. family selling Lou Gehrig's home run ball
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A Connecticut family is selling a baseball that New York Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig hit a home run with in the 1928 World Series. Elizabeth Gott, a Stamford resident, said she's selling the ball on behalf of her 30-year-old son,...Tags: Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Baseball
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10 things you might not know about losers
We're at a loss to explain two things: Why JPMorgan Chase took a $2 billion bath on risky trades, and how the Chicago Cubs can maintain such futility, holding the worst record in the National League. It appears to be high season for lowliness, with both...
Tags: Politics, Al Gore, U.S. Elections, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson
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June 17: Author - Matthew Algeo, The President Is a Sick Man
WGN NewsMatthew Algeo Event: Tonight 7:00 p.m. Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore 7419 West Madison Street Forest Park www.thepresidentisasickman.com On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland vanished. He boarded a friend's yacht, sailed into Long Island Sound,...Tags: Jaw, WGN, Long Island Sound
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Queens HS Teacher Gets The Boot After Going Too Far In Sex-Ed Class
Staff ReporterA Queens high school teacher has been barred from city schools following allegations he got too explicit in his sex-ed classes. Students at Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood had complained that science teacher Dyrel Bartee's show-and-tell crossed...Tags: Teachers, Science and Technology, Ridgewood, Queens (New York City), Science
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Exhibit unwraps Chicago’s role as candy capital
TribLocal - ElmhurstAn exhibit chronicling the history of candy in Chicagoland doesn’t sugarcoat the ups and downs of the industry’s history. “It wasn’t ‘Willy Wonka.’ It wasn’t …... -
When Labor Day was born
On America's mental calendar, Labor Day marks summer's end with a reminder to close up beach cottages and get the kids to school. But the circumstances of its birth were bloodier. Legislation declaring the first Monday in September a national holiday...Tags: File Sharing, Plant Openings, U.S. Army, George Pullman, Holidays
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First bloodied, then muddied
If it's a holiday, it must mean there's a parade.
Chicago celebrated its first official Labor Day on Sept. 3, 1894, with a massive parade of more than 20,000 marchers representing more than 60 unions. The endless line of "wage-earners" trudged more...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Union (Tolland, Connecticut), Labor Day
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Obituary: Eugene Young
SPRINGFIELD — Eugene Young, 95, of Conway, S.C., formerly of Marion County, died Friday. Born May 17, 1917, in Boyle County, he was a son of the late Grover Cleveland and Lettie Coyle Young. He was a graduate of Danville High School, and formerly...Tags: Giant Food, LLC
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Personal and private lives
A recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute has revealed that religious Americans think a financial scandal is worse than a sexual one. The poll was conducted in the wake of several high-profile cases of politicians making headlines for their...Tags: Ethics, Adultery, Diets and Dieting, Anthony D. Weiner, Politics
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Remembering 'the eagle that is forgotten'
Change of SubjectJohn Peter Altgeld Reader Russell T writes: I grew up in Chicago and have been living in Aachen, Germany, for the past two and a half years. Yesterday, we had the day off for May Day, for which we have...... -
Brawny comfort, light delight in NYC
NEW YORK — It's easy to imagine many a sea captain sprawled out on the charred oaken floors of the Breslin, knocked cold after a brawl. The smell of smoking pig's feet wafts across black, wood tables. A bowl of onion soup floats past, oily with bone...Tags: Dining and Drinking, West Village, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Anchovies, Starbucks Corp.
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Former Union soldier edits Danville paper, courts controversy
Contributing writerIn the 1880s, a former Union army captain from Ohio named David Asbury Murphy owned the “Danville Tribune,” a local Republican newspaper. Murphy’s editorials against Democratic politicians and former Confederate soldiers earned him...Tags: Politics, Slavery, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Democratic Party, Wars and Interventions
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