Trib Nation: Happy Holidays, and more behind the news

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December 23, 2011

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Happy Holidays from the Chicago Tribune newsroom From all of us here in the Chicago Tribune newsroom, Happy Holidays! Trib Nation holds its first suburban community conversation breakfast Reporter Bridget Doyle on our recent community conversation: "driving culture in the suburbs." Looking into medical tourism Health reporter Deborah L. Shelton reports on how she began looking into medical tourism in Mexico. Overflowing retention pond: A family's struggle with flooding Joe Mahr and Duaa Eldeib talk about reporting on one family's struggle with years of flooding. Juan Rivera's '92 conviction tossed out by Appeals court Tribune reporter Steve Mills reports on following the Rivera case up to a ruling -- and reversal -- from the Illinois Appellate Court.

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