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Chicago Sun-Times High School Football Player of the Year: Jonas Williams of Lincoln-Way East

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Tuesday's high school basketball scores

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Monday's high school basketball scores

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A. Finkl & Sons to pay state $125,000 over emissions of harmful nitrogen oxide at Far Southeast Side plant

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UChicago, Northwestern students receive prestigious Marshall scholarship

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