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I Mi'Vii I i i irijj fill hn itfii! Wifit! 139 Year No. 27 Chicago Tribune Sections "Iifit ill Ihoffn i ill iimi iii ii ii i-i iiiiumh jr-l- -J U- i "fee '( I nwemgmt ft ataii tvt Mwrlrlfllll jt fcwl-- fs Vry in mi tniiiii By Phil Hersh Chicago Tribune NEW ORLEANS It is a good thing Chicago is the city of the big shoulders. How else could it Bear up to the task of carrying an entire football team in a victory parade from here to eternity? Sporting immortality is where the Chicago Bears are headed. They proved you can get there from New Orleans in a day trip. With a 46-10 victory over the New England Patriots in Sunday's Super Bowl XX at the Louisiana Superdome, the Bears also took the entire city on a long-awaited joyride.

They found the way to get over the hump that had always overturned the civic bandwagon, littering the streets with broken dreams instead of confetti. Twenty-three years have passed since the 1963 Bears won Chicago's last tide in a major professional sport. At last, the Second City can chant "We're No. 1" without fear of flying too high. With only a few minutes but no doubt-left in the game, the bitterly cold streets up north in Chicago began to fill with warm bodies and the sound of car horns.

Fans across the city gravitated toward the Rush Street area, and once the game was over, auto traffic on the Near North Side was at a standstill. Pedestrian traffic was little better. In the Loop, those who braved the frozen Daley Plaza danced in the cold as the "Super Bowl Shuffle" played larger than life on the giant screen behind them. Bears' head coach Mike Ditka was speaking of them and hundreds of thousands of other people like them, football players and fans alike when he told his victory press conference that "A lot of dreams have been fulfilled, and a lot of frustrations have ended." The Bears, once hoisted aloft, can simply put one foot on the Picasso, another on the Sears Tower and step right up to the Chicago cloud, where team founder George Halas will be waiting. Or they can go the route linebacker Mike Singletary has mapped out.

"I'm so happy," Singletary said, "I feel like I could jump on top of the Super-dome." Chicago can jump for joy, knowing the only thing that risks being overturned is the applecart that said professional football was supposed to be a serious game. Even the Super Bowl became no more than a Trtburw photo by Ed Wagner Jr. As he and head coach Mike Ditka are carried from the field, defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan confirms what the Patriots learned Sunday the Bears are No. 1 in the NFL. Fans' glory: Overdue to overdone Fu" It was no contest Sunday the Bears are the NFL's best.

The tears can dry, says Bernie Uncicome. Chicago has a champ. No sweat, says Bob Verdi. The Bears are as good as their rep. The Bears' MVP Sunday? The players say it's Buddy Ryan.

A phenomenal ending for Bear phenom William Perry. Steve Daley says the Bears' massacre hurt NBC too. For the Patriots, the game is an embarrassment, a nightmare. In Sports By Patrick Reardon and Andrew Bagnato Chicago's Super Bowl victory was played out for the city Sunday on big screens and small sets, in taverns and rectories, on Bourbon Street and Rush Street, along the lakefront and under the tracks. The City on the Make had made it in the Super Bowl, and when it was over Chicago area residents whether in the Superdome or in their own homes shifted from the nervous edge of their seats and unleashed a collective "well done." "I didn't think it would be as easy as this it's about time," said Roy Faulkner, a Chicago native with 91 years of historical perspective.

Faulkner had cheered Grange decades ago. On Sunday, he cheered Payton too, from a seat in the Oak Park Arms Hotel, 400 S. Oak Park in Oak Park, where he was six years younger than the oldest man present. Archie Frey, 97, also savored it all like a cigar he had saved, forgotten, then found. "Everything about the game has been perfect," he purred like a happy cat.

Longtime fans and crazed come-latelies uncorked their emotions as the last locker room scene faded from the televised battle that had emptied street corners and movie theaters during the game. Surely there were quiet toasts to George Halas. No doubt that somewhere fathers and sons grinned at each other as they rolled the taste of "Chicago Bears, Super Bowl Champions" around on their tongues. But Bourbon Street in New Orleans and Rush Street here bore the brunt of the charge. At Rush and Division Streets, revelry spilled into ugliness cars were tipped over and battered and a man's leg was broken in the crush.

Police reported about two dozen arrests, mostly for disorderly conduct. Angelo Capua, 54, of 2307 Elmwood Berwyn, a courier for WMAQ-TV Channel 5 television news was reported in fair condition at Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a fracture of his left leg. lie was Continued on page 2 uUii uiiu al the Midway. "I'm supposed to be on top of the world," said quarterback Jim McMahon, "but I just feel like it's another ballgame." As thousands of Chicagoans among the Continued on page 2 Repair racket preys on 'trusting souls: Tar Heels trounce Irish North Carolina coach Dean Smith didn't want to play the Irish, and the Tar Heels' 73-61 win doesn't change his mind. In Sports.

Every year, fraudulent home repairmen bilk Chicago-area homeowners out of their savings in defiance of state laws that are too weak to stop them. This is the second of three articles on the problem. company," Mrs. Bingham said. "We were trusting souls." What happened to the Binghams not their real name is not unusuet, said Tom Warden, an investigator in the Illinois attorney general's office.

State consumer protection laws failed to protect them from the convicted con artists who circled their house like vultures. Their nightmare is a lesson for any homeowner. The Binghams' name and ad- repairmen showed up at the Binghams' front door, authorities say. Most left a few thousand dollars richer. The Binghams, a retired couple in their 60s, were persuaded to buy two furnaces and three central air conditioners.

They had their house rewired. They had new pipes installed. They had their chimney fixed-three times. They spent $22,801.42. "It seemed like everytime we called, somebody different would come out and say he owned the Shuttle trip marked tardy New Hampshire teacher Sharon Christa McAuliffe waits one more day to become the first ordinary American in space as threatened bad weather delays the launch of Challenger.

Page 3. 'X2MC McAuliffe IN Uranus moon steals show Photos from Voyager 2 show that Miranda, a Uranus moon, is the most bizarre object so far found in the solar system. Page 3. rA It By Howard Witt and Michael Arndt Like a lot of homeowners, Charles and Rebecca Bingham decided one winter day they should have the furnace in their Northwest Side bungalow checked and cleaned. They ended up getting checked and cleaned themselves.

Over the last five years, seven of the Chicago area's most notorious and unscrupulous heating Congress arming for deficit duel By Dorothy Collin Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON After only three days of its new session and even before the President has delivered his State of the Union or submitted his fiscal 1987 budget, Congress appears headed for a standoff over the deficit goals set by the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing act. House Democrats have served gleeful notice that they will take every opportunity to deliver verbal trashings of President Reagan's budget, which is expected to call for huge cuts in domestic spending to meet the $144 billion deficit target and which has been declared "dead before arrival" on Capitol Hill. Senate Republicans, still licking the wounds incurred in the fiscal 1986 budget battles when their initiatives were blocked by the White House and House Democrats, have Indicated they may sit back and watch for a while. And leaders of both parties have said they won't move toward increasing taxes to re- Coutlnued on page dress likely ended up on a "mope list" of easily conned victims, Warden said. The list probably was passed around within the fraternity of con artists who operate in the Chicago area.

If the list wasn't passed around, it was likely stolen, Warden said. "These guys are always fighting over the people they've been bilking," Warden Continued on page 6 Rebels hoist flag in Uganda From Chlcsgo Tribune wires NAIROBI, Kenya The National Resistance Army of rebel leader Yoweri Museveni declared itself the new government of Uganda Sunday after seizing the capital of Kampala in two days of fighting with government troops. Reports from Kampala said the streets were littered with bodies of hundreds of rebels and troops killed in the two-day siege that capped five years of NRA guerrilla warfare. Most of the city was without electricity or water. Thousands of jubiliant Ugandans swarmed into the streets Sunday to welcome the rebels, who seized control of the capital and its sister city of Entebbe Saturday night, Western diplomats in Nairobi said.

"We regard ourselves as the government of Uganda," National Resistance Army official Eriya Kategaya said in Nairobi Sunday. "We are in effective control. This is our formal victory announcement." Museveni was In Kampala ii. Continued on page 14 CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Monday: Partly cloudy, flurries likely; highs zero to north winds 15 to 25 m.p.h. Monday night: Clear to partly cloudy; lows zero to -10.

Tuesday: Partly cloudy, chance of snow; high 14. EES i News Sec. 1 Almanac 25 Joan Beck 26 David Broder 27 Editorials 26 INC 28 Mtehaal Wllan 27 Dick Locher 26 Obituaries 25 Perspective 27 Mike Floyko 2 Roger Simon 5 Weather 28 Sport Sc. 2 Briefs 17 Steve Daley 8 Bemle Uncicome 1 Odds Ins 2 Racing 17 Sooreooard 18-20 Sports focus 36 BobVerrJ 1 Business See. 3 Bottom Hoe 2 Business ticker 3 Carol Klelman 24 Georpe Lazarus 6 Andrew Lackey 20 Tempo Sec.

4 Bridge 14 Comics 14.15 Crossword puzzle 14 Dear Abby 4 Bob Greene i Horoscope 15 How to keep weU 3 Movie ads 4,5 Movies 6 Music 8 Clifford Terry 10 TV and radio 10,12 TriUxn pm) by Cert Hugv Fircfiditer dies after heroics ClasslJtod ads art In Sec. 5 Colleagues carry Fire LL Edmond P. Coglianese residential hotel Sunday. Coglianese, who later down a ladder after he was pulled from flames that died, had Just saved two elderly residents from the trapped him on the third floor of a Near North Glde blaze at 111 VV. Division.

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