Chicago
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Noble Fool to salute doo-wop girl groups in 'Taffetas'Jan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Circle Theatre artistic director Kevin Bellie returns to Noble Fool to direct "The Taffetas," a salute to doo-wop girl groups from the 1950s, about a quartet of singing ...
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9 Cook County Jail inmates stabbed during fight
Jan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Nine Cook County Jail inmates have been hospitalized after an early morning fight in a maximum security wing. Cook County sheriff's office spokesman Steve Patterson says...
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Chicago immigration activist marks year in church
Jan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Flor Crisostomo has quietly spent the last year inside a Chicago church writing letters, meeting with school groups and organizing political demonstrations toward her go...
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USG posts 5th straight quarterly loss on slump in home buildingJan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - USG Corp., North America's largest maker of gypsum wallboard, recorded its fifth straight quarterly loss as U.S. home construction fell to the lowest level in at least 4...
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5 charged in death of baby found in squalid NW Side apartment
Jan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Authorities in Chicago have charged five people in the death of a baby boy who was found in a filthy, roach-infested apartment on the city's northwest side. Chicago Poli...
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Tenneco, Johnson Controls likely gainers in Obama emissions planJan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - BorgWarner Inc., Tenneco Inc. and Johnson Controls Inc. may boost sales because of President Barack Obama's move to let California set emissions rules that are stricter ...
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3-month-old baby found dead in squalid apartment
Jan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Police in Chicago say officers found a dead 3-month-old boy in a crowded, filthy apartment on the city's northwest side. Authorities say the infant was pronounced dead a...
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11 sickened by carbon monoxide leak
Jan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Authorities say high carbon monoxide levels caused by a faulty furnace at a Chicago Boys and Girls Club sent 11 teenagers to area hospitals. Fire Chief Joe Roccasalva sa...
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Daley names new Chicago schools CEO
Jan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - CHICAGO -- Chicago's public school system has a new CEO. Mayor Richard Daley has named Chicago Transit Authority President Ron Huberman as the new chief executive of the...
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Northern Trust hires ING's Browne as investing chiefJan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Northern Trust Corp., the Chicago-based custody bank, named ING Investment Management executive Robert P. Browne its chief investment officer. Browne replaces Orie L. Du...