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A car wash attendant waits for his next customer in Chicago’s inner city.

Members of the Illinois handicapped wheelchair basketball team hoist up their star player after winning the top tournament honors in the national wheelchair basketball tournament.

Tinley Park’s Chris Webber out-manueuvers two Crystal Lake South defenders in mid-air to grab a TD pass during his team’s 31-14 class 4A semifinal victory.

Shawn Dunston of the Chicago Cubs comes close to pulling off a great double play on a grounder up the middle hit by Mookie Wilson of the Mets. Dunston stopped the ball, ran to second to force Gary Carter and just missed nailing Wilson at first.

Ann Evans kisses the coffin of her husband, Steve Evans, after his casket was carried to in a horse-drawn hearse to Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park. Evans, 62 was the “King of the Gypsies” in Chicago--the patriarch of a Midwestern…

A woman protester at Chicago’s annual Armed Forces Day parade is hauled away by police. The event was overrun with protest action against military defense buildup.

A waitress from a restaurant across the street comforts one of her customers who was struck by a car after getting out of a cab in downtown Chicago. The lady nearly lost her leg when she was pinned beneath the car.

No one thought much of Len Dykstra’s hitting abilities until the pint-sized outfielder delivered the game-winning two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning in the third game of the National League Championship. As he rounded third base…

Some boxers shadow box, others use a punching bag. Hector Oliveria uses a string on a clothesline behind the apartment complex where his brother and mother live as he waits for a ride down to the gym. Oliveria says he uses the string because it makes…

Eric Dickerson of the L.A. Rams doesn’t run into other football players, he either runs through them or in this case, puts his arm out and runs around them. Dickerson had another banner year of running through and around other defensive…