Friday, January 6, 2012

Paralyzed high school football player dies / Jobless rate falls / Whooping cough's comeback

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Paralyzed high school football player dies at 27
Paralyzed high school football player dies at 27

Rasul "Rocky" Clark, a former running back for Eisenhower High School who was paralyzed during a game in 2000, died Thursday night at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey. >> Share your thoughts of "Rocky" Clark

U.S. payroll jobs up, jobless rate falls to near 3-year low U.S. jobless rate falls to near 3-year low

U.S. employment grew solidly last month and the jobless rate dropped to a near three-year low of 8.5 percent, offering the strongest evidence yet of an acceleration in economic activity.
14 wounded in shootings across Chicago 14 wounded in shootings across Chicago

Fourteen people were wounded in separate shootings across the city last night, including four standing on a corner in West Garfield Park near Maypole Avenue and Kenneth Avenue.
Bears ask to interview Ravens exec Bears ask to interview Ravens exec

The Bears' general manager search intensified Thursday as the team honed in on its leading candidates.
President vs. Congress President vs. Congress

President Barack Obama has established that he's done with Congress for the rest of his term. Feeling chumped after Republicans wouldn't reach agreement with him on a broad deficit-reduction agreement, Obama has decided its time to campaign against GOP leadership of the House and Senate.
Questions raised about Leon Finney Jr.'s Woodlawn Organization Noted Woodlawn housing activist faces federal probes

The Rev. Leon Finney Jr. built a name for himself in the 1960s by fighting slumlords and helping to save his Woodlawn community from being swallowed by the University of Chicago.
Rick Santorum's ties to Illinois GOP presidential hopeful Santorum has local ties

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum could become Carmel Catholic High School's most famous alum, but few there today can remember him as a student.
Long on decline, whooping cough makes a comeback Long on decline, whooping cough makes a comeback

Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. -- many of them children -- were coming down withwhooping cough each year when vaccines against "this menace," as one newspaper called it, were introduced in the 1930s and 1940s.
Getting rid of Zambrano money well spent Haugh: Getting rid of Zambrano money well spent

Consider it adding $15 million to the cost of renovation at Wrigley Field. That is the amount Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts invested to keep his clubhouse free from the contamination of Carlos Zambrano.
Thinking outside the box to honor thy politicians Kass: Thinking outside the box to honor thy politicians

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, our all-powerful Rahmfather, appears ready to name a public building after Chicago's late former first lady Maggie Daley, perhaps the Chicago Cultural Center.

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