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A killer's view: From the witness stand
Tribune staff reporterRobert Thompson declined to be interviewed for this article, citing concerns that a newspaper report could harm the chances of his appeal. But he gave his side of the story in testimony at his trial. He had been drinking heavily all evening, he...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Death, Lawyers
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The law didn't save her
Tribune reportersCindy Bischof thought her breakup with a longtime boyfriend would go smoothly after he agreed to move out of her house. But Michael Giroux quickly turned hostile, writing up a plan to destroy her home and following through with it. Terrified after...Tags: Justice System, Prosecution, Unemployment, Judges, Personal Weapon Control
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Her hope, and then her curse
Chicago Tribune reporterI always dreamed that when I grew up I would marry . . . the man of my dream, tall, dark & handsome, educated with a great job." —Kimberly Garnett, in a college essay It must have looked like Kimberly Garnett's dream had just walked into the Club...Tags: Sports, McCormick Place, Prosecution, Cell Phones, Social Issues
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Branch out, and climb a tree
Tribune reporterALTO, Ga.—My daughter Nina and I looked up, tilting our heads back. Way back. Fifty feet up in a massive white oak tree, there were a pair of sturdy hammocks attached to branches. "That," said Genevieve Summers, "is your lodging." We would be...Tags: Dog (animal), Atlanta, Climbing, Sport Climbing, Mountaineering
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Explore nature as a work in progress at Midewin
Tribune staff reporterWith summer still splendid, and all the more precious as it wanes, it's time for a big outing to a big wilderness. Things don't get much bigger than the 18,000-acre Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, so my friend Joanna and I headed down to the former...Tags: Science and Technology, Armed Forces, Archaeology, Bodies of Water, Lakes and Ponds
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Lose yourself in isolated Visitation Prairie
Tribune staff reporterNothing beats a good walk in the woods. You get the restorative contentment of cherishing nature. You get a good walk. And you get away from crowds in a way that only your feet -- which can navigate the narrowest trails and the thickest thickets -- can...Tags: Cook County, Motorvehicle Accidents, Forestry and Timber, Transportation Accidents, Crime, Law and Justice
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Ponds: Where science and serenity meet
Tribune staff reporterDragonflies flitting over a quiet pond in the midday heat. A classic rural scene of summer, no? Actually, no. Classic, yes, but not just rural. The city and its environs have plenty of ponds, or pond equivalents, with the attendant dragonflies and...Tags: Sports, Sex, Forestry and Timber, Lakes and Ponds, Bodies of Water
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Interested in trees? Try 'urban forestry lite'
Tribune staff reporterPam Holy and George Davis headed out of the little slice of butterfly heaven that is the Burnham Nature Sanctuary, Davis holding a pruner and Holy lugging industrial-grade limb loppers in a bucket. Along the trail behind them was evidence of the morning'...Tags: Science and Technology, Natural Resource Industry, Forestry and Timber, Environmental Issues, Morton Arboretum
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Cure those fall blahs with a color paddle down the Kish
Tribune staff reporterThe secret to a fall color paddling trip is flexibility and preparation. Flexibility, because you have to be ready to drop everything for a perfect day. Which, for a fall canoe trip, means a day at the peak of the color season but unseasonably warm and...Tags: Education, Sports, Bee (insect), Trips and Vacations, Arts and Culture
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Seeing the outdoors if you can't, or don't dare to, walk through it
Tribune staff reporterIt was a rough few months recently for your Outdoors Adviser. Injury followed injury followed physical therapy followed reinjury. Caused variously by overuse, underconditioning, clumsiness (it's hard to walk across the Michigan Avenue bridge on a...Tags: Adults, Chicago Botanic Garden, Sports, Bodies of Water, Children
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Starved Rock stars waterfalls, wet winter means more falls to visit
Tribune staff reporterA first outing of spring is the perfect time to express gratitude for the season's arrival. And this year, my feelings of gratitude are so intense that I needed a pretty spectacular piece of outdoors to express it. I figured that an 80-foot waterfall...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Field Museum of Natural History, Illinois, Nature, Travel
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Check out these historic forest preserve structures built by the CCC
Tribune staff reporterThe dismal economy has me thinking a cheerful outdoors thought: Bring back the CCC!The Civilian Conservation Corps was the silver lining of the dark cloud that was the Great Depression. Nicknamed "Roosevelt's Tree Army," it did double duty of...Tags: Bodies of Water, Environmental Pollution, DuPage County, Will County, Transportation
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