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Teacher Lisa Matthews feeds Akyra while Emmanuel waits his turn at the Carole Robertson Center, 3701 W. Ogden, one of Chicago's best child care centers. (Jean Lachat/Sun-Times)
Day care isn't child's play Watching Your Children Part II: One of Chicago's best child care centers stands between vacant lots and boarded-up buildings on a bleak stretch of Ogden Avenue in North Lawndale. The Carole Robertson Center for Learning, headquartered at 3701 W. Ogden, was singled out by the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services as an example of child care moving far beyond minimum licensing regulations. It offers low-income children some of the best programs the city has to offer.


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Bradley would bring bat and baggage to the Cubs The long-awaited announcement that enigmatic outfielder Milton Bradley has signed a three-year contract with the Cubs could come Thursday. The Cubs said Monday that Bradley is expected in town this week for a physical, a precursor to finalizing a deal.

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St. Charles boy proves good at playing bad kid Ethan Cutkosky isn't at all like he appears on the silver screen. "It was two hours in the makeup chair," the youngster said. The St. Charles 9-year-old, a third-grader at Bell Graham Elementary School, plays a major character in "The Unborn," a science-fiction horror film about a woman slowly being possessed by a spirit and her attempt to fight it off.






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