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By Charlie Meyerson, Daywatch columnist

HUGE CLEANUP. The rain has stopped for now, but the weekend's heavy rains triggered emergency declarations in half a dozen Illinois communities and all of Cook County, and the aftermath will not be pretty. Jeff Long, Emily S. Achenbaum and Ted Gregory report: MORE »

What to do if your home was flooded: MORE »

Road closures update: MORE »

School and other closings: MORE »

Runoff from record-breaking rainfall continues flooding threat: MORE »

Texans hot, mad and awaiting federal aid: MORE »

Latest Chicago-area weather forecast, continually updated radar pictures and Tom Skilling's seven-day outlook: MORE »

WALL STREET FAILURES. Lehman Brothers has filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition. The world's largest insurance company, American International Group Inc., is also restructuring: MORE »

Frank James, writing in The Swamp: "Anyone who isn't scared about what happened on Wall Street ... is truly clueless." MORE »

Mark Silva: Economy fits McCain's script. MORE »

Obama: "Too many folks in Washington and on Wall Street weren't minding the store." MORE »

OUT-PALINED ON 'SNL'? Maureen Ryan hails Tina Fey's portrayal of Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live": MORE »

Palin skit worked, not much else did: MORE »

McCAIN 'ONLY SIX POINTS BEHIND SARAH PALIN.' That was one of the jokes on "Saturday Night Live," but you could be forgiven for feeling confused about who's running against whom these days:
-- Charles Krauthammer: Just what's so great about Obama? MORE »
-- Katha Pollitt: Well, what's so great about Palin? MORE »

New Obama ad questions McCain's honor: MORE »

Dawn Turner Trice: Obama must fight back -- but not with mud. MORE »

EMERGENCY LANDING. A Southwest Airlines jet carrying more than 100 passengers out of Midway made an emergency landing at South Bend after the crew smelled smoke in the cockpit: MORE »

Get continual news updates at the new Breaking News Center: MORE »

FATAL TEXT? Federal investigators say they're treating with caution a report that a Los Angeles train engineer sent a text message just before the collision that killed him and at least 24 others: MORE »

Chicago man wins $7 million suit over text-message spam (Sun-Times): MORE »

ANCHOR'S RETURN. Allison Payne is due back at the Channel 9 news desk this afternoon for premiere of a new newscast. Phil Rosenthal has the story: MORE »

Eric Benderoff: New ways to dial into radio stations. MORE »

CUBS NO-HITTER. Carlos Zambrano last night delivered the team's first in 36 years. Paul Sullivan was there: MORE »

Mike Downey: Odd circumstances, shining moment. MORE »

Do you remember who delivered that 1972 no-hitter? He talks to Fred Mitchell: MORE »

Photos: MORE »

Editorial: "Forget the goat, forget the black cat ..." MORE »

Sox sweep doubleheader: MORE »

Bears fumble lead, lose to Panthers: MORE »

REALLY DARK KNIGHT. DC Comics is trying to recall or destroy tens of thousands of copies of a new Batman comic book in which a barrage of especially obscene words made it to print: MORE »

What went wrong (ComicMix): MORE »

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