<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>Chicago news, weather, traffic - CBS 2 - WBBM</title><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays</link><description><![CDATA[Chicago news, weather, traffic - CBS 2 - WBBM]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:06:01 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[CBS 2 Holiday Trivia Quiz]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/Holiday.Trivia.2.334016.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/Holiday.Trivia.2.334016.html</link><description><![CDATA[Do you know which department store created Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or what mistletoe was originally used for? Here's a 31-question test of your knowledge of the holiday season. See how many you know.<br /><img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="http://static.cbslocal.com/Themes/CBS/_resources/img/images_image_281095702.gif" /> <a href="http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays">More Holiday Stories</a><br />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:08:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHOW.com: Avoid Doing Thanksgiving All Wrong]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/chow.thanksgiving.cooking.2.1301105.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/chow.thanksgiving.cooking.2.1301105.html</link><description><![CDATA[New rule for preparing your Thanksgiving Day feast: No more fussy holiday meals. You cook a turkey (we show you how in simple, illustrated steps) and all the fixin's. You time it out just right (again, we show you how). And you enjoy it immensely (we don't need to show you how to do that). We will show you what to do with the leftovers.
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:47:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ald. Shiller Defends Herself Via The Internet]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/Shiller.Internet.violence.2.1148651.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/Shiller.Internet.violence.2.1148651.html</link><description><![CDATA[Remember when angry residents confronted Ald. Helen Shiller about the violence in her 26th Ward? Shiller dodged their questions -- and our questions, too. But CBS 2's Kristyn Hartman reports the alderman is finally responding, but not in person. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:05:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[AAA: Fewer Travelers To Hit The Road July 4]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/aaa.july.4.2.1057626.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/aaa.july.4.2.1057626.html</link><description><![CDATA[Auto club AAA says fewer people will be traveling this July Fourth holiday, even though gas is far cheaper this year and falling. 
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:09:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illinois House Approves Ethics Oversight Measures]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/House.ethics.2.1016257.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/House.ethics.2.1016257.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Illinois House voted Thursday for a series of ethics bills meant to give state inspectors more authority, improve oversight of how tax money is spent and clear out political pals hired by two disgraced former governors. 
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 23:28:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians Mark Good Friday In Jerusalem]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/good.friday.jerusalem.2.981776.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/good.friday.jerusalem.2.981776.html</link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of Christian clergymen, worshippers and pilgrims thronged the
alleyways of Jerusalem's Old City, chanting hymns and bearing crosses
as they marked Good Friday by retracing Jesus' final footsteps.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:28:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jews Prepare To Celebrate Passover]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/passover.seder.meal.2.979366.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/passover.seder.meal.2.979366.html</link><description><![CDATA[Jews around the world made last-minute preparations Wednesday ahead of the spring festival of Passover, cleaning houses, cars and offices, cooking furiously and getting ready for a week without eating leavened bread. 
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:42:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clintons, Revelers Ring In 2009 In Times Square]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/new.years.eve.2.898124.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/new.years.eve.2.898124.html</link><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of thousands of revelers rang in 2009 from frigid Times Square
as the famous Waterford crystal ball dropped, signaling the end of a
historic and troubled year that saw the election of the first black
U.S. president and the worst economic crisis in decades.
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:41:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunshine, Big Crowds Greet Rose Parade]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/Rose.parade.recession.2.898279.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/Rose.parade.recession.2.898279.html</link><description><![CDATA[Dancers paid tribute to Broadway and sari-clad models represented
India's Bollywood films as the New Year's Day Rose Parade entertained
thousands of fans with the theme "Hats Off to Entertainment." Pasadena police estimated more than a million people would attend
the parade and the annual Rose Bowl game that follows it, plus various
other Tournament of Roses festivities.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:50:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather Chills Arrival Of 2009]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/cold.snow.freeze.2.897809.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/holidays/cold.snow.freeze.2.897809.html</link><description><![CDATA[Winter storm warnings and plummeting temperatures put a chill on New
Year's Eve plans for hundreds of thousands of revelers. Thousands of
homes and businesses in the Midwest had no electric lights for the
holiday because of wind damage. Temperatures in the teens - with wind
chills below zero - were forecast for midnight and the annual ball drop
in New York's Times Square and for the First Night celebration in
Boston.<br />
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