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Amid all the economic news coming out this week, from manufacturing data to housing stats, there's another event that has just as much to do with dollars and cents: Opening Day.Cable sports pundits and Las Vegas oddsmakers may not be divining a 2011 World Series championship for Chicago, but at leas

Yes, it's true: Jogging, long thought to hurt knees with all that pounding and rattling around, may actually be beneficial for the complex and critical joint. There are caveats, though, especially for people who have suffered significant knee injury or are overweight.

Some 7,500 jobs cuts at the United States Postal Service will hit the Chicago region.The U.S. Postal Service district office in west suburban Carol Stream is one of seven nationwide that will be shut down, the agency annouced Thursday.

Ten years ago, Uruguay had some of the highest cigarette-smoking rates in Latin America.But Uruguay's efforts in the last five years to curb smoking have been so successful that the small South American nation is embroiled in a lawsuit with tobacco giant Philip Morris International.We’ll talk

In America, cigarette smoking seems like it’s on the way out. There are restrictions on where you can smoke, and socially, it’s a downer. To varying degrees, smoking is more taboo worldwide as well. From Australia to Uruguay, cigarettes are in the crosshairs.

Chicago burlesque star Michelle L’amour was named Miss Exotic World in 2005. Chicago magazine calls her the "Reigning Queen of Bump and Grind".