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CLOSING BELL
DJIA 12,359.92 -55.78 | NSDQ 2,674.22 +4.36 | S&P 1,277.81 -3.25
Stocks rose in the first week of 2012, even though news that the U.S. jobless rate neared a three-year low did not spark buying interest in equities: MORE>>
TOP BUSINESS NEWS
ComEd customers can now text the utility when the power goes out -- provided their phone is charged: MORE>>
• Grid improvments getting an extra $233 million in 2012: MORE>>
 Jobless rate falls to 8.5 percent, the lowest in nearly three years: MORE>>
• President welcomes upbeat jobs data, urges payroll tax cut: MORE>>
Gas prices start year at high -- and keep climbing: MORE>>
MF Global inquiry turns to CME, the broker's chief regulator: MORE>>
Sara Lee taps Campbell Soup executive to lead spinoff: MORE>>
Johnson Publishing moving to Borg-Warner Building: MORE>>
IRS says it audits one in eight millionaires: MORE>>
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TALKING BUSINESS
"It is time for Hospira to live up to those fine words ... by putting in place a restricted distribution system for pancuronium," said a letter signed by 25 international physicians: MORE>>
IN OTHER NEWS
 Three freight trains collided in Porter County, Ind. in an accident involving a derailment, fire and possible chemical spill: MORE>>
Illinois Lottery really sorry about the bounced checks to winners: MORE>>
One sign bank branches are very close together: A robber hit two Chicago banks in just 8 minutes this morning: MORE>>
Obama administration to announce rule that would let undocumented immigrants stay in U.S. during application process: MORE>>
The GOP's Iowa caucus winner Rick Santorum jeered over views on gay marriage: MORE>>
• Few remember him from Mundelein's Carmel Catholic: MORE>>
Joran Van der Sloot said he would plead guilty to killing a young Peruvian woman five years after a U.S. teenager he was with vanished in Aruba: MORE>>
A suicide bomber killed 26 people and wounded 63 in Damascus, the second attack in the Syrian capital in two weeks: MORE>>
Scientists say you may not have to wait until old age to to see signs of cognitive decline: MORE>>
LATEST CHICAGO AND NATIONAL NEWS >>
IN THE BLOGOSPHERE
Trine Tsouderous talks about our whooping cough story and why medical reporting is so interesting, in TribNation: MORE>>
SPORTS FIX
Cubs defend shortshop Starlin Castro after WBBM-AM 780 reports he has been accused of sexual assault: MORE>>
The Bears have named Mike Tice offensive coordinator: MORE>>
LATEST SPORTS NEWS >>
OFF THE CLOCK
 Girl Scouts mark 100th anniversary with new lemony cookie Savannah Smile: MORE>>
Van Halen kicking off its first tour in four years, with two dates in Chicago and David Lee Roth: MORE>>
Drew Barrymore engaged for her third marriage: MORE>>
Quite a season of "Celebrity Apprentice" ahead with Lou Ferrigno, George Takei, Cheryl Tiegs and Arsenio Hall, among others: MORE>>
HEADED OUT?
Traffic | See current information on area highways, buses, trains and planes on our commuting page: MORE>>
 Weather | Today's temperature an unseasonable 20 degrees above normal and more typical of late March. High of 54. See our weather page with radar and Tom Skilling's seven-day forecast: MORE>>
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