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Two Chicago judges and three others with connections to the city have been pointed out as possible replacements for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who is retiring at the end of the current court term next month. Ruben Castillo, a judge for the U.S. District Court of Northern Illinois who presides over a courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Building, has been named as a possible nominee. So has Diane Wood, a justice on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.

3 with University of Chicago ties expected to be on Obama's short list for Supreme Court Ever since Barack Obama's election as president, there has been anticipation among scholars at the University of Chicago's Law School that one of their own could be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court bench in the next few years. That anticipation was heightened late last week with news that Obama, who taught constitutional law at the school from 1992 to 2004, soon will be making his first Supreme Court pick. Almost every short list of possible nominees to succeed Justice David Souter includes three...