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Charlie Meyerson, Daywatch columnist
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SURPRISE PREGNANCY. The revelation that the 17-year-old daughter of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant and unmarried has taken Republicans off balance. Jim Tankersley reports:
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John Kass: Smearing pregnant girl is dirty politics.
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Carol Marin: Bristol Palin's pregnancy none of our business, but Sarah Palin's views are (Sun-Times).
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Mary Mitchell: "When an unmarried 17-year-old girl comes up pregnant on the South Side of Chicago, Republicans don't make it sound like a beautiful thing." (Sun-Times)
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Will Sarah Palin's candidacy last the month?
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Demonstrations turn violent near Republican convention center in St. Paul:
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On stage in Chicago: A candidate's kid gets in trouble -- in 1968.
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MARCH ON NEW TRIER. Hundreds of students were planning to skip the first day of classes at Chicago Public Schools, instead boarding buses to the north suburbs to protest the financial divide in Illinois public education:
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Commercial Club of Chicago leader: City school system "spends more money per pupil than most school districts in Illinois."
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3 KIDS SHOT.
A deadly weekend for the young in Chicago:
-- 13-year-old girl shot by stray bullet:
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-- 10-year-old girl caught in exchange of gang gunfire:
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-- Teen boy shot while playing basketball:
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Robbery spree puts Schaumburg on edge (Daily Herald):
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'A BREATHTAKING DROP.' An editorial hails new laws -- sparked by Tribune reports -- for cutting teen-driving deaths dramatically this year.
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Six hurt when truck slams into Chicago home:
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YOUR FUTURE: CROWDED -- AND NOT MUCH RICHER.
-- CTA, Metra and Pace all predicting record ridership, fewer seats:
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-- Study: U.S. workers can expect skimpy raises next year:
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Big Nicor gas bills firing up customers (Crain's):
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NEW WEB BROWSER. Google today is releasing its own Web browser, known as Chrome -- with the promise it'll make Internet surfing faster and safer:
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Google explains Chrome in an online comic that will teach you a lot about how browsers work -- and why they break (Google's Web site):
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IN A WORLD WHERE THE ANNOUNCER FAMOUS FOR SAYING 'IN A WORLD WHERE ...' IS GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN ... Movie and TV voiceover giant Don LaFontaine is dead (The National Post):
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LaFontaine's personal Web site:
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"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" disappearing from Channel 11 and other PBS stations:
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Citizens watchdog group out to deny licenses to 9 Chicago TV stations (Sun-Times):
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CONGRATULATIONS, AMY. "Ask Amy" columnist Amy Dickinson is married (New York Times):
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Question to Amy in today's column: "Would you let your spouse spend all day at some stranger's house, only to come home and be cold to you?"
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'YOU HAD TO LEARN HOW TO GIVE HIGH-FIVES ALL OVER AGAIN.' A Cubs player is back in action after nearly losing four fingers. Paul Sullivan has the story:
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Cubs shut out in 3rd straight loss at home:
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Sox shut out, fall into tie for 1st:
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GUSTAV'S CHICAGO IMPACT. Tom Skilling says the storm could touch this part of the country with extended rainfall this week:
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Reporter James Janega has been covering the storm from Louisiana via Twitter:
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So have others, but not uniformly well:
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Evacuees getting help in Chicago:
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Latest weather forecast, continually updated radar pictures and Tom Skilling's 7-day outlook:
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Will we escape summer without reaching 100?
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