Chicago News
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Chicago officials ink nearly $30M contract to move migrants to winterized camps
Sep 21, 2023 3:13 PM - Chicago officials have signed a nearly $30 million contract with a private security firm to relocate migrants seeking asylum from police stations and the city's two airports to winterized camps with massive tents before cold weather arrives, following the lead of New York City's use of communal tents for migrants.
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Legendary Sun-Times editor dies at 87
Sep 20, 2023 9:41 PM - Former Sun-Times Editor James Hoge, who helped usher in a golden age of Chicago journalism by hiring young talent and signing off on audacious investigative projects, died Tuesday at age 87
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Best bets: Monster Jam at the Allstate, Elmhurst Craft Beer Festival
Sep 13, 2023 6:00 AM - Monster trucks roll into Rosemont, Morton Arboretum marks the Celebración de los Árboles, Teachers Comedy Lounge takes over the Raue Center for the Arts and more. -
'We're outnumbered': Why Chicago is losing the war on rats
Sep 9, 2023 5:31 PM - Chicago has topped pest control company Orkin's list for rattiest city in the country for eight consecutive years. And an investigation has found that the city is ill-prepared to handle the surge of complaints. -
Migrants would move from police stations to 'winterized base camps' under mayor's new plan
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Feds tell Ed Burke's lawyers they don't plan to call Danny Solis at racketeering trial
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Madigan gives up last party post
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Bally's casino could open at Medinah Temple this weekend
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Expressway shootings are down sharply this year
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At O'Hare, hundreds of migrants are stuck in crowded, unsanitary shelter
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