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Firefighter recruit dies
Sun reporterA 29-year-old recruit with the city Fire Department died during a training exercise yesterday as she tried to extinguish a blaze set by instructors in a vacant rowhouse in Southwest Baltimore, according to fire officials. Racheal Wilson, mother of an 11-...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Industrial Accidents, Fires, Belvedere Square, Maryland
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Eggs dyed red, roasted lamb...
Tribune staff reporterIt's Holy Thursday, and Greek restaurants up and down South Halsted Street have less than three days to roast hundreds of young spring lambs, dye thousands of eggs and simmer gallons of special Greek Easter tripe soup. "It's a really busy day," said...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Roast Lamb, Easter, Lifestyle and Leisure, Potatoes
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Family, church, commerce at heart of area
Sun ReporterThe Southeast Baltimore neighborhood known as Greektown was settled during the early 20th century by mostly working-class European immigrants. In the 1950s, the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was established in the area, drawing many Greek families...Tags: Safeway Inc., Dundalk, Christian Orthodoxy, Science and Technology, Christianity
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Questions arise over Yelp's ads, reviews
Tribune staff reporterWith the Web site Yelp still responding to allegations by San Francisco businesses that it manipulates the prominence of positive and negative reviews, some Chicago merchants are adding to the heat. They allege that Yelp representatives have offered to...Tags: Chicago Loop, Marketing, Sales, Economy, Business and Finance, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Cubs-Sox World Series: 100 years later
Cubs Then: Second baseman Johnny Evers and center fielder Jimmy Slagle are the first to report for spring practices, meeting with club president Charles Murphy. Now: SLUG White Sox Then: Club president Charles Comiskey announces that he has every...Tags: Chicago Cubs, Colorado, New York, American League, Johnny Evers
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Neighborhood tour, parade to cap long road to the title
Tribune staff reporterUPDATE: The first White Sox players began showing up about 10:30 a.m. at U.S. Cellular Field for today's motorcade, parade and victory rally. Hundreds of fans were on hand to greet them. Red double-deck buses that will carry the players, coaches, front-...Tags: Chicago Loop, World Series, Ozzie Guillen, CLTV, Festive Events
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Ozzie: 'I will be back next year'
Tribune staff reporterAt 1:53 p.m. today, surrounded by his team and an adoring crowd of thousands including Mayor Richard Daley, Ozzie Guillen announced a decision everyone had been waiting for. "I tell you now: I will be back next year. I love you!" Guillen said, putting to...Tags: Mexico, Weaponry, Ozzie Guillen, CLTV, Festive Events
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The Why You Eat Out Quiz
Dining@LargeWow. Such interesting comments from Piano Rob and Drew from Greektown under today's earlier post. I made a joke something to the effect that no owner ever told me his restaurant closed because his food wasn't very good. I was......Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Another well-known restaurant bites the dust, and a discussion of why restaurants close
Dining@LargeAs msal3 pointed out under an earlier post, Northwoods in West Annapolis will be closing its doors Aug. 16. The press release that came to me started by saying, 'Score another one for the poor economy.' Northwoods, which has been......Tags: Annapolis, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Top 10 Recession-Proof Restaurants
Dining@LargeI liked this suggestion by a reader for a Top 10 Tuesday because it got me to thinking about what makes a recession-proof restaurant. Of course, no place is really recession-proof, and I'm sure each of these has been hurt......Tags: Pikesville, Economy, Business and Finance, Lifestyle and Leisure, Harbor, Maryland
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Windsor businesses feel security pinch
Tribune staff reporterEvery night, the powerful beams from rooftop spotlights crisscross the sky above Casino Windsor, as if searching for the thousands of Americans who used to flock here in a daily pilgrimage of chance. All those good customers with the greenbacks haven't...Tags: Terrorism, Trade Dispute, National Security, Lotteries, Economy, Business and Finance
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Community offers affordable choice
Sun StaffWhile it's nothing like her parents' intercontinental journey to the United States in 1965 from the Greek island of Rhodes, Despina Roros has been on an odyssey of her own. Born and raised in Greektown, Roros, 33, left the east Highlandtown...Tags: Christian Orthodoxy, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Perry Sfikas, Festive Events, Queens (New York City)
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