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Agriculture futures rise on Chicago Board of Trade - 48 minutes ago - CHICAGO AP Agriculture futures rose Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for March delivery jumped 26.75 cents to 6.435 a bushel, while March corn popped 16.25 cents to 4.275 a bushel and March oats leaped 12 cents to 2.28 a 0133 : Bridgeton News

Afternoon Reading How Mark Cuban Pursued the Chicago Cubs - 1 hour ago - Mark Cuban has a rather interesting post over at his blog explaining what happened to his pursuit of the Chicago Cubs. The thinking a couple of months ago was that the SEC charges of alleged insider trading against Cuban squashed his 0133 : Wall Street Journal

Daley plans to go directly to federal government for economic 0133 - 1 hour ago - With Gov. Blagojevich facing impeachment, Mayor Daley is trying to engineer a political end-run around Springfield when it comes to Chicago's share of the 800 billion economic stimulus plan being crafted by President-elect Barack Obama. 0133 : Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago could see its 1st covering of snow in more than a week - 8 hours ago - A period of light snow targets the Chicago area late Tuesday and Tuesday night, threatening the first modest accumulations here in over a week. The ground's been free of a 1-inch or greater snow cover for 11 days despite a seasonal snow 0133 : Chicago Tribune

CBOE Hopes For Demutualization Ruling In 2 To 4 Weeks - CEO - 48 minutes ago - CHICAGO Dow Jones The Chicago Board Options Exchange is hoping for a ruling on its demutualization case within the next two to four weeks, its chief executive said Tuesday. A Delaware judge will decide on a mid-December objection from 0133 : Wall Street Journal

Daley to Streets San Speed the plow - 48 minutes ago - Ever since the Blizzard of '79 buried then-Mayor Michael Bilandic, cutting corners on Chicago snow removal has been the political equivalent of playing with fire. Mayor Daley is apparently tired of getting burned. On Tuesday, the mayor's 0133 : Chicago Sun-Times

Brodsky optimistic CBOE will be public this year - 1 hour ago - Crain s The Chicago Board Options Exchange is nearing the end of a years-long legal battle that has kept it from following in the footsteps of most of its competitors to become a shares-based company, CEO William Brodsky said. CBOE is a 0133 : Crain's Chicago Business

Year in sport, part 7 The year ahead - 1 hour ago - SANTIAGO SEGUROLA Madrid has a good candidacy, but it will be hard for a European city straight after London. CHRISTOPHER CLAREY And it would come not long after Athens and Turin, too. Madrid is a strong candidate, but that would also 0133 : International Herald Tribune