Chicago
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Vandals try to pull down Chicago park's McKinley statue
Nov 25, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Vandals tried to topple a Chicago park's statue of President William McKinley early Wednesday using a rope tethered to a car, police said. The attempt to ...
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Chicago officer seriously injured as car flees traffic stop
Nov 24, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Two people were taken into custody after a Chicago police officer was dragged by a car and seriously injured when the vehicle sped away from a traffic sto...
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Car chase through Darien, Burr Ridge ends with crash into 2 police carsNov 24, 2020 12:00 am - A high-speed chase Monday night ended with a Chicago man crashing a stolen vehicle into two police vehicles. Carlos Perez, 22, of the 5500 block of North Sawyer Avenue, ...
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Nearly 700 mostly Chicago-area nursing home workers striking
Nov 23, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Nearly 700 nursing home workers walked off the job Monday at 11 mostly Chicago-area Infinity Healthcare Management facilities, saying they won't return un...
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Chicago's Wrigley Field granted top historic landmark status
Nov 21, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Wrigley Field, the 106-year-old baseball shrine that's the Chicago Cubs' home, has been designated a National Historic Landmark. U.S. Secretary of the Int...
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Wrigley Field granted federal landmark status
Nov 20, 2020 12:00 am - Wrigley Field has been named a National Historic Landmark to recognize "the significant role the ballpark has played in the city of Chicago and the history of profession...
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Aquino to replace Garcia as Illinois presidential electorNov 20, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - U.S. Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia will not serve as a presidential elector in Illinois. Instead, he is being replaced by state Sen. Omar Aquino, the state Demo...
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Chicago dad hopes for recovery after drive-by wounds son
Nov 19, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago man whose 5-year-old son was shot in the head at home when gunfire from a drive-by shooting smashed through a window says there are encouraging ...
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Protesters sue Chicago Police over 'brutal, violent' tactics
Nov 19, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Activists who protested in Chicago over George Floyd's death and the killing by police of other Blacks across the U.S. filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing c...
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Chicago park renamed for abolitionist Frederick Douglass
Nov 19, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A sprawling park on Chicago's West Side will now bear the name of 19th century abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Anna Murray-Douglass and not that of a...