only but now everything is leaving chicago he was born in chicago in 1926 and is now 85 years old. he created playboy in 1953 and moved to los angeles in 1975. wheelchair basketball is a tough sport for adult paraplegics but for an increasing number of young people who have been left paralyzed by street violence and random shootings as a popular activity. fun and challenging and 48 year-old stevens who was shot in 2008 it is a lifeline to normalcy and something his mother cherishes for her son. it's been difficult the whole three years. i'm trying to keep them motivated to try to keep him going on. the determination on the basketball court carries through to the rest of his life

with the help of a locker he crossed this dates to receive his kindergarten diploma almost three years ago. service to the community was one of the late dr. martin luther king jr. ideas it's also significant fund-raiser for the organization enabling it to take on more than $250 projects every month. we pay for our place on god's earth and i want to thank everybody here for paying your rent and service and helping our neighbors, that is what illinois in america is all about the heart of america is the heart of a volunteer. and some of the volunteer projects include interactive multicultural affairs with children working with seniors organizing school

libraries in dispersing the community centers. today's deepfreeze could give way to not snow but rain early in the week. jim ramsey tries to talk about the up and down forecast in the week ahead. whee wheeeeeeeeeeeee! wheeeeeeeeeeee! whee whee wheeeeeeeeeeee-he-he-heeeeee! whee whee wheeeeeeeeeeee! pure adrenaline. whee whee wheeeeeeeeeeee! everything you love about geico, now mobile. download the new geico app today. whee wheeeeeeeeeeee-he-he-heeeeee!

i will share their radar in just a moment, the reason that we're expecting on monday will end with some white snow look at that system if you can see the clock is moving through montana into parts of wyoming if you look up at our rate are we don't see very much at the moment but there are a few echoes down stream so it's possible we may see a few flicks later on this

evening our computer model showing rain overspreading the area. the rainfall totals are in. don't get too excited here this is about 1,807 in. in some parts of the area the snowfall totals once they come through on tuesday will amount to about a half an inch. a much more promising snow system is later in the week and a look at these temperatures right now it's 12 degrees at o'hare. single-digit numbers further out to the west. we have a very light breeze. just enough to generate a single

digit wind chill with temperatures this cold but don't be surprised if over the next few hours the wind chill temperatures drop. more cold air still over at the first part of the next four days from now. but then things become a little more sane as we get into the week beyond that would indicate a nice improvement. light snow possible. then for sunday will looking a partly cloudy skies wind growing a bit stronger anti temperatures 33 to about 36 degrees, not bad. monday periods

of rain 37-41 degrees. kind of a sloppy winter day. lookit thursday and friday. too early to put totals on a but it looks promising. we have parted on for six weeks of the snow season at this point last year we had more than 22 in. of snow.

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it's fun, it's been a rough 10 days for northwestern and the wildcats suffered a one point loss in the senate to point overtime loss at no. 13 michigan and now a visit from big-time lead michigan state but the cats had a surprise in store in front of a sellout crowd they trailed by nine and the first half put northwestern

ahead for good. second half, the wildcats opened up for some breathing room. sure enough is running and for the slam, he scored 22, a win worth celebrating. as the wildcats and states a 15 game winning streak 81-74. you cannot just be competing, you have to take the game. you have to scratch of a little harder. the contributions all around were great. ryan sitting for uconn at notre dame, led by one at a half, second half of the notre dame is, the length of the court pass to andre for uconn it ends there 29 game home winning streak 57-53 oliver personnel in

depaul time to come up with a big win on the road, this deal and the cardinal's third straight loss 76-59. you icy welcomed crosstown rival loyola. heated this six times. 50-51. amidst nba season with very few nights of you could understand they don't always bring their best effort and may be loosened games they shouldn't it hasn't really been the case with the balls even though they played their seventh game against toronto dressed for the cold weather it was tied at halftime derek rose to his left makes it tough layup and the bulls up 13 and caused him

up strong for the bulls it is gibson with 11 points and 12 rebounds, pulls the group to an nba best, 77-64 over the rafters. black hawks trailed the red wings 2-1 in the final minutes and it worked jonathan cape wins the draw maryann host of a blasted home high game over time with less than a minute to go he scores off of a rebound for the second time this week they beat the black hawks. they were leading late. the niners grabbed a three-point lead but they scored too soon alex smith

drives the 49 years down the field nine seconds to go, san francisco wins 36-32 day two of the cubs convention president baseball operations fail epstein said down for a wide range of conversation one of the questions, does he have any superstitions for snapping a losing streak? >> when the city from our office said there was a little rats in the fried rice. so when we were down 0-3 to the yankees

we've made everybody in the office order from that place including me and the next thing you know the red sox came back and won four games in a row. if you guys know any nice restaurants around town you might be able to help us out during the losing streak, we would appreciate it. >> there has to be an easier way to do it. >> double duet for us this saturday nights.