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While 4-year-old Michael spins circles around the toy-filled living room and 4-month-old Evan bounces in a baby seat, Mom and Dad peer at the screens of nearly identical silver PowerBook computers. Maria Sokurashvili and Jeff Steele, home for the evening after work, are tending to their other baby -- the online parenting support group called DC Urban Moms.
CHICAGO, May 2 -- The last of three African elephants brought to Lincoln Park Zoo in 2003 -- over the objections of animal activists -- died soon after arriving at a Utah zoo with a warmer climate and elephant companions, officials said.
Black Student Charged In Hate Mail Case
BANNOCKBURN, Ill. -- A black college student was charged with a hate crime Tuesday for allegedly mailing racist threats to fellow minorities on campus, apparently because she was homesick and wanted to convince her parents the school was dangerous, authorities said.
CHICAGO, April 25 -- Fourteen reputed Chicago mob figures were indicted Monday on charges of plotting at least 18 murders, including the 1986 slaying of the crime organization's top man in Las Vegas, Tony "The Ant" Spilotro, who was buried alive in a cornfield.
Illinois Lawmakers Aim to Get Students to Take a Load Off
Illinois students need to lighten up.
DEERFIELD, Ill., April 22 -- Authorities at a Christian university near Chicago moved dozens of black and Hispanic students to a hotel for their safety, and police stepped up patrols on campus Friday after three people received threatening, racist letters.
Developers and civic leaders hope to have Tysons Corner expand beyond existing limits and become more like a traditional downtown.
This is what juice looks like on a Wednesday night.
Speaking to an audience assembled for dedication of the $90 million museum here memorializing the president often called "the savior of the nation," Bush said, "to understand the life and the sacrifice of Abraham Lincoln is to understand the meaning and promise of America."
Roaming the side yard of one of Alexandria's oldest homes yesterday, Jeff and Mary Wagner Ginger were hunting for tips for their townhouse garden back home in Chicago.
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