Big Ten sets sites for title games Sounders FC Douse Fire 00 In Chicago Green Fields Firm issues corn forecast with falling acre numbers Eastern Corn Belt farmers race to plant as clouds clear Severe weather covers Upper Midwest MLB News Blog Network Ramirez ends homer drought in Cubs win most of U.S. Memorial Day weekend points summer Suburbs under severe thunderstorm watch 2011 equals deadliest tornado year on record death toll tops 500 and season not over Grain futures higher concerns Thunderstorms expected Wednesday morning Tornado kills one damages 200 houses Kansas | Video Grains closed mixed Friday AlQaida eyed oil tankers bombing targets Haley Reinhart gets a big welcome home from Jim Norton I'm dangerous other comedians CBOT soars Monday

Big Ten president and chancellors have voted to keep the conference football championship game in Indianapolis through at least 2015. The inaugural game will be played at Lucas Oil Stadium this fall. Commissioner Jim Delany says weather was a factor in keeping the game in Indianapolis rather than rotating with an outdoor venue like Soldier Field. Chicago will rotate conference basketball tournaments with Indianapolis beginning next season. The weather provided most of the heat in Chicago for Seattle. The Linn Group, a Chicago-based commodities consulting firm, reported that corn acreage in the U.S. could dip as low as 87 million acres, down from the 92 million acres the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported at the end of March. * * * advertisment * * * CHICAGO (Reuters) - An open stretch of warm, dry weather in the eastern Corn Belt this week is raising farmers' hopes they will be able to catch up on crop planting after a wet, chilly spring, a forecaster said on Wednesday. CHICAGO, May 31 (UPI) -- Severe weather covered the Upper Midwest Tuesday, with thunderstorms forecast for Chicago north through eastern Wisconsin and into the Great Lakes. The string of bad weather continued at Wrigley Field. Several other trends show signs of reversing. Aramis Ramirez ended a long home run drought, Ryan Dempster threw six solid innings and the Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 in a rain-delayed game Sunday. "I have a long way to go," Ramirez said. CHICAGO (Reuters) - Much of the United States was expected to bask in warm, humid, summer-like weather on Sunday as the country, raked by deadly storms over the past month, marks the second day of the long Memorial Day weekend with some welcome quiet on the meteorological front. Thunderstorms started moving into the Chicago area late Sunday morning, and the National Weather Service warns that severe weather could afflict the area until 4 p.m. this afternoon. CHICAGO (Reuters) - The United States on Saturday equaled the record for deaths from tornadoes in a single year with 519 killed in 2011, and more than a month still to go in the tornado season, The National Weather Service said. CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than 500 people have been killed by twisters in 2011, making it the deadliest tornado year in the United States since 1953, according to the National Weather Service. CHICAGO, May 25 (UPI) -- Grain futures traded higher on the Chicago Board of Trade Wednesday with further planting delays likely due to wet weather in the forecast. The National Weather Service is warning of potential heavy thunderstorms rolling into the Chicago area. The thunderstorm warning is for the McHenry, Lake, Kane, DuPage, and Cook counties, that could produce hail, frequent heavy lightning and severe wind gusts. KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - Tornadoes overnight in northeast Kansas killed one person and damaged some 200 homes, and resulted in a state of emergency being declared for 16 counties, state officials said on Sunday. Elsewhere in the country, towns along the lower Mississippi River were coping with floodwaters, and parts of the Midwest and Southeast faced the threat of violent thunderstorms, hail and strong winds. In Kansas the known tornado damage was centered around the town of Reading, said Kansas Division of Emergency Management spokeswoman Sharon Watson. Initial reports "indicate there are 200 homes in the town and surrounding community that have some type of damage ranging from minor to severe ... Another 20 homes have been destroyed," she told Reuters by phone. A separate statement from the Emergency Management Division said most of the destroyed homes were in the town. Gail Lewis was on her way to Reading to visit friends when the tornado struck. She said she arrived in town before most responders and saw downed trees and damaged homes. "Our church had one side completely blown out," said Lewis, whose father is pastor of the Reading First Baptist Church. "People were in ... CHICAGO, May 20 (UPI) -- Grain futures closed mixed Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade, yet prices remain elevated on concerns of planting slowed by cool, wet weather. WASHINGTON (AP) — Osama bin Laden's personal files revealed a brazen idea to hijack oil tankers and blow them up at sea last summer, creating explosions he hoped would rattle the world's economy and send oil prices skyrocketing, the U.S. said Friday. The newly disclosed plot showed that while bin Laden was always scheming for the next big strike that would kill thousands of Americans, he also believed a relatively simpler attack on the oil industry could create a worldwide panic that would hurt Westerners every time they gassed up their cars. The alert, obtained by The Associated Press, said that al-Qaida had sought information on the size and construction of oil tankers, had decided that spring and summer provided the best weather to approach the ships, had determined that blowing them up would be easiest from the inside and believed an explosion would create an "extreme economic crisis." Bin Laden's documents also revealed that in February 2010, the terror group identified New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Chicago as important cities that should be attacked; and it eyed specific dates, including the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Christmas, July Fourth and ... An estimated 30,000 Haley fans braved chilly, rainy weather to welcome their hometown favorite to Chicago's Arlington Park Saturday. During the ... When CNN met up with Jim Norton in Chicago he was a little under the weather, battling a bit of a cold. However, that didn't stop the in-your-face comedian from doing what he does best: Being brutally honest. And spreading germs. CHICAGO, May 9 (UPI) -- Weather forecasts sent grain futures higher Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade.
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