"American Idol" contender Crystal Bowersox, seen on several TV screens while performing on the Fox show, in The Village Idiot in Maumee, Ohio. Bowersox played in the bar regularly before she won a spot on "American Idol." (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/MCT)
Danielle Sterczek, 18, of Palatine, Ill., left, and her roommate Krysten Karns, 18, of Aledo, Ill., meet for the first time in person as they move into their dorm room in Florida Avenue Residences at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, on Aug. 18, 2009. The two had met each other on Facebook before meeting at the dorm. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/MCT)
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