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Billboard Likening Global Warming Believers to Unabomber is Pulled

Critics have been feeling rather cold toward the group who equated global warming with terrorists.

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Boy, 5, Kidnapped While Awaiting Heart Transplant

What’s one quick way to make a standard child abduction even worse?

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Illinois Mega Millions Winners Revealed: They’re Real, and They’re Adorable

“I turned to my wife and said, ‘We won.’ She giggled for about four hours.”

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College Humor: School-Themed Memes Are Taking Off

From condescending Willy Wonka to “S–t Girls Say” parodies, college students get in on the Internet inside jokes.

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Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy May Have Had Accomplices

Two Chicago lawyers have reason to believe the “Killer Clown” may have had help in at least three of his 33 homicides

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‘Incredibly Sorry’ Blagojevich Sentenced to 14 Years for Corruption

Rod Blagojevich, Illinois’ second governor in a row to be imprisoned on corruption charges, appeared sullen and defeated in the end.

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Video: Fiery Train Derailment Leads to Evacuation of Illinois Town

A freight train carrying ethanol jumped the tracks in northern Illinois, causing a nearly half-mile-long explosion and prompting the evacuation of the town’s 800 residents.

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Buy This House, Get a Thousand-Dollar Bar Tab

The housing market must really be down.

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Congressman Bares His Abs — Because of High Health Care Costs? Sure, Why Not

The youngest member of Congress, 29-year-old Aaron Schock, represents Illinois. This month, he’s also representing on the cover of Men’s Health as “America’s Fittest Congressman.” And if the stomach he’s flashing is any indication, you’ll find no objections here.

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On The Market: The Famed Ferris Bueller House

Ever dream of going back to high school and doing things a bit…differently?