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Fire-damaged casino hopes to open within 90 days

Associated Press
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...
Daley says he's 'sorry' about hiring abuses

ABC 7 Chicago
Mar 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 ...
Nearly 70 dogs found in alleged puppy mill

Associated Press
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...
V.A. official to plead guilty to conspiracy

Associated Press
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 ...
Chicago-based Unitrin to exit car-loan business, dismiss employees

Bloomberg News
Mar 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...
State V.A. facilities land $79 mil in stimulus money

Associated Press
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...
Maybe that media tour was dress rehearsal? Blago to fill in on WLS

Associated Press
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...
Chicago leaders hope Obama will be at IOC meeting

Associated Press
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...
Gun found in laundry at Cook County Jail facility

Associated Press
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...
Playboy Enterprises closing NYC offices

Associated Press
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...

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