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A haunted cop

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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PARTNERS IN PERIL

A Story in Four Parts

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SKYSCRAPER, UPSIDE-DOWN

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Town’s focus on ball, not September 11

‘End of the road’ gets taste of fear

Anti-terror work reviVES Los Alamos

 

Inns of Past still Have A Place IN U.S.

 

Killings Steal Rural Innocence

 

Train Wreck Still Haunts Survivor

 

Revolution, revelry and rags

 

Sad, short, perplexing life of a whiz kid

 

Confederate Flag Still Can Draw Blood

 

The homecoming of Pfc. Lynch

 

Rites honor something found in death

 

God’s soldier works gang battlefield

 

Killings Steal Rural Innocence

 

On Frigid Dawn, Baby Found Dead

 

Train Wreck Still Haunts Survivor

Revolution and rags

 

sAD life of A whiz kid

 

Confederate Flag Still DrawS Blood

 

Pfc. Lynch COMES HOME

 

Rites honor something found in death

 

God’s soldier works gang battlefield

 

The Longest Season

 

Homecoming

 

Stylish woman goes in style

 

A vacancy, and a void, on Main Street

 

Memorial Day opens wounds

 

Sailors recall WWII nightmare

 

Farmers reap politics as well as wheat

 

Sept. 11 emotions pour out anew

 

In snowstorm’s wake, city’s heart melts

 

Accounting’s bloodhounds in demand

 

Au revoir, Renoir

 

Muslims find welcoming

 

home on the range

 

A grim end to a golden life

Angel won’t let slain boy be forgotten

 

The bard of the blues

 

The coming of the anti-Berkeley

 

With Big John, rock not a hard place

 

Children take charge in Bud Billiken parade

 

A childhood spent waiting

 

Mary Cassatt makes a new impression

 

At school’s assembly, tragedy hits home

 

Shifting away from summer, back into grind

 

For coal workers, rewards come with risks

 

God was this con-artist’s cover

 

Shooting provides another grim reminder

 

Mom wrestles with patriotism, grief

 

To us, a Grabowski in Saints clothing

 

Doctor follows higher calling to Africa

 

Grandfather’s hand lifts boy from tragedy

 

Musician took twisted road to most wanted

 

Defense: Evidence coerced in cop’s death

 

Back in the air AFTER 9/11

 

Town waits, prays for a lost Marine

No family but many tears for stillborn

Neighbors relieved Gacy dig is over

Pressures of college life can be deadly

A hero cop’s final hours

High-speed train passes rail test

After 25 years in U.S., Hmong still isolated

Community denounces violence, mourns teen

Illiniwek controversy gets personal

Indiana steel generations losing way of life Following their dream to Chicago

Blazing a trail through Lost Chicago

Drum still beating for men’s movement

Ceriale case was trial by fire

Mullen faces man who shot, paralyzed him

Back porches face new scrutiny

A New Year’s mystery deepens

Veterans breathe life into war tales

Statue still closed to visitors

Bearing witness, saying goodbye

‘We are not free’

Undercurrent of unease on the Mississippi

Time-lapse torment

A dirty job, but they do it

Mystery gone, but not disbelief

One family rejoices in Thanksgiving

Teen girl’s slaying entangled in politics

For down-home voter appeal, find a nickname

Parents in forefront of this graduation

In moment of fury, family is shattered

Small town looking at art for economy

Small town feeling the absence of 150

City tries to pump up its crews down under

Shredding industry refuses to be trashed

A fuller view of a genius painter

School tries to soften world’s hard edges

Book spurs gullible with image of largesse

Developers give up on cemetery homes

Chicago’s cops learn fast during slow times

Reward dispute keeps tragedy alive

Marines return to open arms

Patriotism rises above all else

Chicago’s Picasso hits the Big Three-Oh

For Mullen, it’s peace at last

Tiny town resists stamping out post office

More visitors heed the call of patriotism

City of New Orleans rolls on

Elegy for Flight 5191

Straight and smooth

Sgt. McDonald’s long ride home

Officers gathered cash, then his thoughts

Of safe-deposit boxes and secrets

The man in the wheelchair

Inertia and the Storm 5024

Imagine that: kids writing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Post-Crescent

 

 

 

 

Lexington Herald-Leader

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GONe but not forgotten

 

losing estelle

 

his blood runs coal

NIGHT AT THE OLD MOTEL
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"In the morning, after Moll has checked out and resumed her journey through the lonely, flat sprawl of east-central Illinois, Bice will wake his daughter, Katharine, who like many 14-year-olds, is not easy to rouse. And Campbell will begin packing his truck.

" 'Sir? You finished in your room?' Hitchens will ask him. And Campbell will say: 'Yeah, I'll be out in about 10 minutes.'

"But for now, it's time to sleep. At 1:34 a.m., Moll turns out the last light at the Carousel Inn Motel, and Room 59 fades to black. It's getting late in America."


--Night at t he Old Motel

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