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FU-Schnickens Don`t Take It Personally (Jive) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) FU-Schnickens, new to the rap scene, has had its style dictated by producers A Tribe Called Quest and Dres of rap group Black...

Skyy Nearer to You (Atlantic) (STAR)(STAR) One thing`s for sure, Skyy hasn`t lost its touch. Denise Dunning Crawford still has that distinctive vibrato sound to her voice that made ''Start...

A mother`s early morning screams awoke many residents in and around a burning apartment building in Vernon Hills on Tuesday. Efforts to rescue residents from the flames were heroic. A...

An ordinance to allow Highwood`s aldermen and other officials to carry guns was wiped off the books Tuesday night, as Mayor Fidel Ghini and many residents wanted, but the aldermen...

Mel Reynolds, running against U.S. Rep. Gus Savage in the Democratic primary March 17, criticized the incumbent Sunday for lack of attention to low-income residents facing mortgage foreclosure in his...

Five Star Shine (Epic) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) This talented group from the U.K. has risen above its 1985 jack-in-the-box hit ''All Fall Down'' with a slammin` new album. The fashionable family of...

Giorge Pettus This Is Your Night (MCA) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) 1/2 They say that the best way to ensure a hit is to remake an old one; Pettus brings back the smooth...

Ald. Bernard Stone, whose North Side 50th Ward would be directly affected by a proposed shopping complex in southwest Evanston, said Tuesday he is so enraged that he would build...

Police were investigating Tuesday the slaying of Wallace Lieberman, a Northbrook estate liquidator whose body was found Monday in a Cicero alley, less than two days after his family reported...

Babyface A Closer Look (LaFace) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)(STAR) He has gone from a supersensitive kid begging for attention to a smooth lady-killer who leaves `em falling in the aisles, one of the...