Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) articles from October 2001

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) archives from October 2001

General Motors Announces Plans to Drop Camaro, Firebird after 2002 Year.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Jim Mateja Oct. 1--CHICAGO--After watching sales in the sport-coupe market decline 53 percent since 1990, General Motors confirmed years of rumors by saying it would stop building the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird sport...

Ripple Effects from Sept. 11 Wash Away Jobs in Chicago.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Julie Deardorff Oct. 1--Though terrorists selected East Coast targets more than 800 miles from Rosalyn Huguley's comfortable brick split-level home in a south suburb of Chicago, the 34-year-old mother has become an economic victim...

Saab Unveils Four New Vehicles at Frankfurt, Germany, Auto Show.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Jim Mateja Oct. 1--CHICAGO--Have to suspect they're strapping the skates on in Hades. Saab has developed four new vehicles. Can't remember the last time Saab unveiled a new anything, much less four new anythings at the same...

Poll Finds High-Technology Companies Need to Wait for Spending Rebound.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Barbara Rose Oct. 1--High-tech companies looking for a rebound in corporate spending on computers, software and services will be forced to hang on until next year, according to a recent poll and industry sources. Although money...

Trade Center Towers' Former Images Prove Powerful Draw for Merchants.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Ofelia Casillas Oct. 1--Images of the World Trade Center prior to Sept. 11 are selling quickly in stores and on Web sites as Americans seek to preserve the preterrorist skyline. "I don't want to lose sight of how wonderful it...

A look at some recent dreams.
October 1, 2001... The nightmare of Sept. 11 Here are some other dreams submitted to the Electric Dreams newsletter: _"I am walking across a field and I look up and see a low-flying plane. It is painted red and blue _ red on one side with blue stars and blue...

Interest high in military, but few are signing up.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Jon Yates CHICAGO _ A generation ago, Howard Hammond's father-in-law talked him out of joining the military during the Vietnam War. On a recent day, Hammond sat in an Air Force recruitment office on Chicago's North Side, trying...

Americans wake up to nightmares.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Mike Conklin Night sweats. Calling out in one's sleep. Waking up with a start. America's worst nightmare _ a massive terrorist attack on our soil _ is becoming quite literally that. "We are entering a national epidemic of...

Isolated, rural Afghans unaware of impending conflict.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Michael A. Lev GARAM CHASHMA, Pakistan _ The shepherds came down from the mountains of northern Afghanistan, 10 days by foot, to enter this country long enough to sell their sheep and buy supplies. Then they planned to return...

Algerian suspected of aiding hijackers didn't hide from neighbors.
October 1, 2001... Byline: V. Dion Haynes PHOENIX _ Across the United States, many of the men allegedly involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks generally kept low profiles, moving constantly and blending into the background of diverse immigrant...

Bush will re-open Washington airport after safety measures in place.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Bob Kemper WASHINGTON_President Bush is prepared to reopen Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, the only major airport still closed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but only after safety measures are in place at the...

Giuliani calls on U.N. to eradicate `indefensible' terrorism.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Stevenson Swanson NEW YORK_Declaring "there is no room for neutrality on terrorism," New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani called Monday on the members of the United Nations to unite in a global effort to eradicate terrorism and to...

House gives White House 2 years with broad powers to go after hijackers.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Naftali Bendavid WASHINGTON_House negotiators reached agreement Monday to give the Bush administration many of the tools it sought to investigate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but only...

Analysts see auto industry slowing dramatically.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Rick Popely As automakers prepare to announce gloomy September sales results Tuesday, Wall Street analysts and industry forecasters are predicting even worse times ahead in the fourth quarter and 2002, when new vehicle sales could...

Lineup, rotation changes likely will be minimal.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Teddy Greenstein CHICAGO _ Remember Shane Andrews and Willie Greene? How about bullpen stalwarts Rick Aguilera, Daniel Garibay, Matt Karchner, Brian Williams, Steve Rain and Jamie Arnold? The 2000 Cubs weren't a team; they were...

Jordan can't resist the itch.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Sam Smith WASHINGTON_Michael Jordan disclosed Monday that he is ill. The symptoms of his disease are an unquenchable longing, an unfilled desire and an unyielding itch. It's called basketballitis, and there's just one cure....

Jordan lucky to have wizard of a head coach.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Sam Smith WASHINGTON _ It's still the mark of infamy in the NBA, the Philadelphia 76ers' 9-73 record during the 1972-73 season. That earned the 76ers the No. 1 pick in the draft, and one day the 76ers' personnel chief was...

A long-held hand-held dream is coming true.
October 1, 2001... Byline: James Coates Having fun is a dirty, rotten, filthy job, friends and neighbors. But somebody's got to do it. And so while you were laboring through another rough week on the home front and/or in the business world, I was...

PDA shines brightly, even in sunlight.
October 1, 2001... Byline: James Coates Look for a price tag in the $500 ballpark for this early adopter's fantasy come true when it makes its marketplace debut in the next few days. Pocket PC 2002, the Microsoft software that makes the new line of HP...

Rushing problems anger Walker.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Skip Myslenski EVANSTON, Ill. _ Damien Anderson is averaging 125.7 rushing yards per game, second best in the Big Ten Conference. But coach Randy Walker is not happy. The Wildcats' spread offense, noted for its explosiveness, is...

`99 percent sure' it's New Orleans.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Don Pierson EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. _ The NFL has made the National Auto Dealers Association a deal they don't expect them to refuse. They will switch dates and move the Super Bowl back a week to Feb. 3 in New Orleans. New...

Haunted houses, costume shops take the horror out of Halloween.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Pat Kampert and Robert K. Elder Joe Jensen of Chicago has been as horrified as anyone by the carnage in New York and Washington. "There's nothing more nightmarish than what we just went through the last two weeks," he said. ...

Amex reopens; other exchanges benefited from its shutdown.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Melissa Allison A wounded American Stock Exchange officially reopened Monday for the first time since disaster struck the nearby World Trade Center three weeks ago. The shutdown cost Amex traders considerable business _ with...

Tergat sets sights on world record.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Philip Hersh CHICAGO _ For years, everyone has waited to see what would happen when one of the record-breaking African distance runners took his speed from the track to the marathon. The two names most often mentioned were those of...

Supreme Court suspends Clinton's privilege to practice before high court.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Frank James and Glen Elsasser WASHINGTON _ Offering a reassurance of continuity to the nation, the Supreme Court started a new term Monday, with justices handing down a number of orders, including temporarily suspending former...

Galaxy's midfielders to pose scoring threat.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Bob Foltman CHICAGO _ One reason why the Fire has been among the elite teams in the Major League Soccer since its birth in 1998 has been the play of its midfield. Few teams can compare with the talent the Fire has at that...

Walgreen earnings up 11 percent.
October 1, 2001... Byline: James P. Miller Walgreen Co.'s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings climbed 11 percent, despite the drag of a promotional-pricing strategy that thinned profit margins at the nation's biggest drugstore chain. The Deerfield, Ill.,...

Heroes stand up even in the hour of their deaths.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Kim Barker, Louise Kiernan and Steve Mills They waited, the way people wait on a plane. You can picture them spreading out inside this mostly empty flight to San Francisco, the smokestacks and cranes of the Newark skyline...

Be purposeful when taking kids to work.
October 1, 2001... Byline: Carol Kleiman "I think there were people who were horrified. `Why would you let a child come (to Congress)?' But I wouldn't do it differently. I took my daughters everywhere." _Former U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder, from...

Chicago's Shedd Aquarium Slashes Staff; Other Museums Feel Pinch.
October 2, 2001... Byline: William Mullen Oct. 2--The Shedd Aquarium announced Monday it would lay off 44 full-time employees--16 percent of its staff of 267--because of declining attendance, a months-long trend that worsened after the terrorist attacks on...

Economists Warn of Hard Times for Automakers in Fourth Quarter, 2002.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Rick Popely Oct. 2--As automakers prepare to announce gloomy September sales results Tuesday, Wall Street analysts and industry forecasters are predicting even worse times ahead in the fourth quarter and 2002, when new vehicle...

Chicago Tribune Market Report Column.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Bill Barnhart Oct. 2--Stocks closed modestly lower Monday in relatively thin trading ahead of Tuesday's scheduled meeting of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy committee. Most analysts expect the Fed to cut its short-term...

Ernst & Young Chicago Employees Fly to New York, Get on with Work of Moving On.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Robert L. Kaiser Oct. 2--NEW YORK--As her plane nosed into the sky above O'Hare International Airport, Jennifer Weil's palms became so sweaty they stuck to the Glamour magazine in her lap. ("Go Ahead, Face Your Fears!" advised the...

Zion, Ill., Hospital Expands Cancer Treatment Facility.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Susan Kuczka Oct. 2--Midwestern Regional Medical Center in Zion has begun a $4.5 million expansion that will add three floors to its cancer treatment facility and double its outpatient capacity. The 30,000-square-foot...

American Stock Exchange Reopens for First Time Since Attacks.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Melissa Allison Oct. 2--A wounded American Stock Exchange officially reopened Monday for the first time since disaster struck the nearby World Trade Center three weeks ago. The shutdown cost Amex traders considerable...

Data Explains Fed's Move to Cut Interest Rates, Bush's Emergency Package.
October 2, 2001... Byline: William Neikirk Oct. 2--WASHINGTON--Numbers released Monday told a story of two economies, the one before Sept. 11 and the one after, and showed how much a single day of terror has revolutionized American economic policy. The...

Investor Group Bows Out on Offer for Chicago-based Hartmarx.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Delroy Alexander Oct. 2--Ending its bitter takeover battle, investor group Lincoln Co. on Monday withdrew its $4.50-a-share cash offer for Chicago-based apparel-maker Hartmarx Corp., the same day the clothier said it would not...

Chicago Tribune Inside Health Care Column.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Bruce Japsen Oct. 2--Abbott Laboratories says the countdown is down to days before federal regulators perform much-anticipated inspections of the company's Lake County diagnostics plant. The North Chicago-based medical products...

Reported Talks Between Motorola, Simens Raise Doubts.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Rob Kaiser Oct. 2--Speculation of a $20 billion to $25 billion joint venture between Schaumburg-based Motorola Inc. and Siemens AG of Germany failed to excite investors and industry watchers on Monday. The two technology giants...

Attacks Pose No Change in Way Professional Chicago Stock-Pickers Do Their Job.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Bill Barnhart Oct. 2--Americans have been urged to get back to work. Professional stock-pickers say they never stopped. Amid speculation that the decadelong love affair between amateur investors and the stock market may have...

Plastics Trade Show in Chicago Receives Warm Welcome from Illinois Governor.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Tom McCann Oct. 2--Donald Duncan couldn't help but feel like the 1 millionth customer. The plastics executive had flown into Chicago for a convention at McCormick Place this week, and on Monday found himself feted by the governor,...

United to Add Bars to Cockpit Doors.
October 2, 2001... Oct. 2--United Airlines said Monday it will immediately begin installing steel reinforcing bars on the cockpit doors of all its aircraft to protect pilots from forced break-ins and to provide a greater sense of security to jittery passengers....

Electric, Heating Prices to Fall.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Jeff Long Oct. 2--A 5.9 percent Commonwealth Edison rate cut on Monday and sagging demand for natural gas over the past several months mean consumers will likely see lower energy costs in their homes this winter. "Natural gas...

Walgreen Earnings Rise 11 Percent; Company to Forge Ahead with Expansion.
October 2, 2001... Byline: James P. Miller Oct. 2--Walgreen Co.'s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings climbed 11 percent, despite the drag of a promotional-pricing strategy that thinned profit margins at the nation's biggest drugstore chain. The Deerfield...

Chicago Tribune Carol Kleiman Worklife Column.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Carol Kleiman Oct. 2--"I think there were people who were horrified. `Why would you let a child come [to Congress]?' But I wouldn't do it differently. I took my daughters everywhere." --Former U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder, from...

Taliban maintains refusal to turn over bin Laden.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Michael A. Lev ISLAMABAD, Pakistan _ Defying new military warnings from the United States and Britain on Tuesday, Afghanistan's Taliban government again refused to turn over suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and...

Senators, pilots, transportation leaders discuss security at airports, in aircraft.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Jill Zuckman WASHINGTON _ Applying pressure to the Bush administration, a bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday urged the federal government to take over security at the nation's 140 largest airports. "I, for one, don't think...

Reagan National Airport to reopen in phases, Bush says.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ In announcing steps that would make Reagan National Airport the nation's most secure airport, President Bush said Tuesday that the federal government will allow the facility to reopen in phases this week....

Ashcroft: Terrorist plot organized in Europe, Afghanistan.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Jeff Zeleny WASHINGTON _ Three weeks after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday that authorities are convinced the plot was organized in Afghanistan and Europe before it was...

Quaker pastor is a man of peace in a violent world.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Ron Grossman Many of us depend on some kind of psychic gyroscope to keep our lives on track. A deeply personal symbol or totem of what we feel matters, it steers us through the rough times. It might be love of country, or the more...

Humorist Russell takes tragedy in stride.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Mike Conklin Americans could use a few laughs, but, from Jerry Seinfeld to Jay Leno, it's not the easiest job these days being a comedian. Piano-playing PBS star Mark Russell, who turned Watergate into a cottage industry, is...

America's young sailors are primed for battle stations.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Karen Brandon ABOARD THE USS SHILOH _ The world may have changed on Sept. 11, but the routine on this Navy cruiser has remained the same. Sailors still fire 12-gauge shotguns from the deck at an imaginary enemy, for as far as...

Schools indoctrinate young Afghan and Pakistani radicals.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Tom Hundley PESHAWAR, Pakistan _ Behind the high walls that surround the Darwesh mosque lies a tightly constricted universe where young taliban _ the Arabic word for students _ are taught the perfection of Islam and the perfidy of...

Army scouts Uzbekistan for air base.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Colin McMahon TERMEZ, Uzbekistan _ American officers scouting locations to deploy U.S. troops in Uzbekistan are focusing on the former Soviet air base at Khanabad, Uzbek military sources said Tuesday. A U.S. advance team of...

Briton tells Taliban: Comply or lose power.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Ray Moseley LONDON _ European allies rallied behind the United States on Tuesday with British Prime Minister Tony Blair warning the Taliban to either surrender Osama bin Laden or surrender control of Afghanistan, and NATO saying...

Luxury SUVs are meant to be unique, not utilitarian.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Gary Dretzka PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. _ If, as architect Louis Sullivan once espoused, "form ever follows function," how does one justify the craze for luxury SUVs and gentrified pickup trucks? What purpose is served by adding a...

Wagoner mum on Bengal, sport coupes.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Jim Mateja CHICAGO _ When General Motors invited the media in June to drive a host of its concept cars in Detroit, insiders confided that the Buick Bengal convertible was earmarked for production in the `03/'04 timeframe, initially...

GM's September sales the best of the worst.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Rick Popely U.S. auto sales fell sharply in September, though some major players _ including long-suffering giant General Motors Corp. _ managed to avoid the punishing declines that analysts predicted after the Sept. 11 terrorist...

Bobby Thomson's `shot' still echoing through baseball history.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Richard Rothschild CHICAGO _ It is the most celebrated home run in baseball history, a transcendent sports moment known as "The shot heard `round the world." New Yorker writer Roger Angell calls it "baseball's grand...

Artest's hand holds key for Robinson.
October 2, 2001... Byline: K.C. Johnson CHICAGO _ Ron Artest, the Bulls' starting small forward last season, might be one hard foul away from surgery on his right hand. Offensive options from the post are so limited that the coaching staff is making a...

Jordan's 1st practice brings smiles, praise.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Sam Smith WILMINGTON, N.C._The Wilmington City Council, sitting in session not far from the museum where Michael Jordan's first pay stub is on display, declared Tuesday Michael Jordan Day amid reports Jordan sweated at his first...

Fed slices interest rates again, government agrees on new package.
October 2, 2001... Byline: William Neikirk WASHINGTON _ The Federal Reserve, President Bush and leaders of Congress staged a major anti-recession offensive Tuesday that produced the lowest short-term interest rates in 39 years and the likely passage of a...

Scalia's son may be first test of whether Bush nominees will get easy ride.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Naftali Bendavid WASHINGTON _ The Senate is in the midst of a battle over a controversial nominee named Scalia, with opponents describing him as a radical extremist and supporters calling him fair-minded and intelligent. The...

In big scheme of things, Navy, Air Force No. 1.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Melissa Isaacson The prefix is everything in college football, assigning teams status and asserting power, declaring a game's level of importance and value. But as No. 2 Florida readies to play No. 18 LSU this Saturday and No. 3...

Davie plans to go on the offensive.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Avani Patel SOUTH BEND, Ind._How do you come up with the answer when you're not even sure which question to ask? For 0-3 Notre Dame, the problems are many, the solutions elusive. "The goal is obviously pretty simple: It's...

TV helps guide preparation.
October 2, 2001... Byline: John Mullin One of the more unusual stretches of any season came to an end Monday. What it meant to this Bears team will be apparent in the weeks to come. After six weeks of playing games every other week, and four days in...

Shoe drops on Wisconsin.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Andrew Bagnato CHICAGO _ For the third time in eight years, the NCAA found Tuesday that Wisconsin's scandal-plagued athletic department was guilty of major rules violations. The NCAA placed the university on five years'...

Rams remain only sure thing.
October 2, 2001... EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. _ Not playing did wonders for the Bears. In the wake of the latest NFL results, the off week considerably enhanced the Bears' reputation. Lopsided games proved that misery has company. In the cases of the Indianapolis...

Psychology of rebound is so simple.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Bob Condor She doesn't even know his name, but Dr. Susan C. Vaughan and her 2-year-old daughter, Savannah, sorely miss the "firefighter with the bushy mustache." He is one of 15 firefighters missing from the local firehouse in...

Lasik surgery takes does of courage.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Kristin Eddy So here's this miraculous medical technique waiting for me down a short hallway, behind a door. All I have to do to forevermore see clearly, without the glasses or contact lenses that have been a part of my life for 25...

Sizing up the Atlantic.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Neil Milbert New Jersey Devils 2000-2001: 48-19-12-3 (111 points) Playoffs: Lost in Stanley Cup finals. Key changes: Alexander Mogilny, whose 43 goals led the team last year, joined Toronto as a free agent. ...

Sutter has faith in Thibault.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Neil Milbert CHICAGO _ The Jocelyn Thibault you see when you look back at last season's National Hockey League statistics is not the goaltender the Blackhawks' new coach, Brian Sutter, sees when he looks ahead to this season. ...

Sizing up the Central.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Neil Milbert Detroit Red Wings 2000-2001: 49-20-9-4 (111 points) Playoffs: Lost in first round. Key changes: Traded for Dominik Hasek. Signed free agents Brett Hull and Luc Robitaille. Uwe Krupp has received...

Sizing up the Northeast.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Neil Milbert Toronto Maple Leafs 2000-2001: 37-29-11-5 (90 points) Playoffs: Lost in second round. Key changes: Signed unrestricted free agent Alexander Mogilny. Outlook: The Leafs were a disappointment during the...

Sizing up the Northwest.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Neil Milbert Colorado Avalanche 2000-2001: 52-16-10-4 (118 points) Playoffs: Won Stanley Cup. Key changes: Full season for Rob Blake, acquired in late February trade. Retirement of Ray Bourque. Question-mark status of...

Sizing up the Pacific.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Neil Milbert San Jose Sharks 2000-2001: 40-27-12-3 (95 points) Playoffs: Lost in first round. Key changes: Full season for Teemu Selanne, acquired last year at the trade deadline. Outlook: Injuries kept coach...

It's a lock(out) and the future is now.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Steve Rosenbloom With a work stoppage on the horizon in 2004, teams such as Detroit, Colorado and St. Louis are loading up to win a title before `everything falls apart,' says Dallas star Mike Modano. Three and out. That...

Sizing up the Southeast.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Neil Milbert Washington Capitals 2000-2001: 41-27-10-4 (96 points) Playoffs: Lost in first round. Key changes: Traded for Jaromir Jagr, the league's leading point-producer for the last four years. Outlook: The...

Chicago area real estate sales called slightly slower.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Mary Umberger It may have lost its blinding luster, but the Chicago-area housing market has retained a glow amid a mostly dreary economic landscape. That's according to local builders and real estate agents, who generally say...

The old men and the sea: Norway singing group takes world by storm.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Michael Kilian NEW YORK _ You could call them the Buena Vista Social Club of the Arctic. Their actual name is the Union of Male Singers of Berlevag, or Berlevag Male Choir for short. There are 25 in the group _ most of them...

Study finds a link between TV time and Type 2 diabetes.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Ronald Kotulak and Jon Van Men with Type 2 diabetes might want to throw their TV sets out the window. A 10-year Harvard School of Public Health study of nearly 38,000 males ages 40 to 75 found that men who spent three to five...

Palestinian gunmen kill two Jewish settlers.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Hugh Dellios JERUSALEM _ At least two Palestinians with rifles and grenades raided a tiny Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip Tuesday night, killing a teenage couple and wounding at least 15 other people before Israeli army...

In its 50th season, Chicago bait shop still services schools of anglers.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Lew Freedman CHICAGO _ John Rolniak Jr. smiled at the fuss. The 9-year-old's big fish provoked an uproar when he walked into Henry's Sports and Bait Shop. Other fishermen strained to see his chinook salmon hoisted onto the scale....

Carp a sucker for corn; tourney's anglers strike early, often.
October 2, 2001... Byline: Lew Freedman CHICAGO _ Poised to slide the husky carp back into the Des Plaines River, Andy Klocek cradled the fish in his arms, bent forward and delivered a big smack with his lips. Call it kiss and release. The...