Chicago
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Fire-damaged casino hopes to open within 90 days
Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Owners of the fire-damaged Empress Casino in Joliet say they hope to reopen within 90 days. But a spokesman for the Wyomissing, Pa.-based parent company of Empress, Penn...
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Daley says he's 'sorry' about hiring abusesMar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Mayor Richard M. Daley said the conviction of a former streets and sanitation commissioner did not reflect well on Chicago. "I want to say to the people of Chicago that ...
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Nearly 70 dogs found in alleged puppy mill
Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Authorities have removed up to 70 puppies from a home on Chicago's South Side, where police say some animals were stuffed into bird cages and living without food and wat...
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V.A. official to plead guilty to conspiracy
Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - A Veterans Affairs official who ran a pharmacy in the Chicago suburbs has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud. William Brandt was the associate director ...
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Chicago-based Unitrin to exit car-loan business, dismiss employeesMar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Unitrin Inc. the Chicago-based insurer that makes subprime car loans, said it will exit the auto-financing business. Unitrin will incur costs of as much as $16 million r...
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State V.A. facilities land $79 mil in stimulus money
Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Federal authorities are setting aside $79 million in stimulus money for veterans facilities in Illinois. Congressional leaders say it'll go to six VA hospitals, three ex...
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Maybe that media tour was dress rehearsal? Blago to fill in on WLS
Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - CHICAGO -- Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich certainly isn't acting like a man staring down a federal corruption indictment that could come any day. Whether promoting...
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Chicago leaders hope Obama will be at IOC meeting
Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - DENVER -- The committee trying to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago has invited President Barack Obama to be in Copenhagen for its final presentation but doesn't yet h...
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Gun found in laundry at Cook County Jail facility
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Officials say an inmate working at a Cook County Jail facility discovered a loaded handgun in a pile of laundry. Jail spokesman Steve Patterson says the .380-caliber sem...
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Playboy Enterprises closing NYC offices
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Playboy Enterprises Inc. is closing its Manhattan office and laying off employees as it struggles with falling advertising revenue and a gloomy economic clim...