Chicago
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Chicago workers on day 5 of sit-in protest
Dec 08, 2008 10:00 pm - The nation's grim economy now has a rallying point: Employees at a window-and-door factory that went out of business have taken over the building in a siege that has com...
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Chicago reaches deal to buy Olympic Village site
Dec 08, 2008 10:00 pm - Organizers for Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympics have reached an agreement to buy a former hospital campus they intend to transform into an Olympic Village. Chicag...
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More are getting away with murder
Dec 08, 2008 10:00 pm - Despite the rise of DNA fingerprinting and other "CSI"-style crime-fighting wizardry, more and more people in this country are getting away with murder. FBI figures revi...
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Chicago workers' sit-in becomes rallying point
Dec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday ordered state agencies to stop doing business with Bank of America to pressure the company to help laid-off workers who are staging a sit-...
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Obama: Workers staging sit-in 'absolutely right'
Dec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - President-elect Barack Obama is weighing in on behalf of workers staging a sit-in on the factory floor of their former Chicago employer to protest abruptly losing their ...
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Gov. jumps at chance to join sit-in
Dec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday ordered state agencies to stop doing business with Bank of America to pressure the company to help laid-off workers who are staging a sit-...
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Chicago beating case still clouds police image
Dec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - More than a year after he last wore a badge and months after his boss said he wanted him fired, a policeman videotaped beating a female bartender remains the best-known ...
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Reports: Tribune Co. weighing bankruptcy filing
Dec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, other newspapers and the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, has hired financial advisers ahead of a possibl...
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Tribune Co. files for bankruptcy, cites $13 bil in debt
Dec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Media conglomerate Tribune Co., smothered by $13 billion in debt and a drop-off in advertising, on Monday became the first major newspaper publisher to seek ...
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GQ names Chicago its 'City of the Year'
Dec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Barack Obama's election as president, a yet-to-be built skyscraper and a Batman movie. GQ magazine says those are among the reasons it's picked Chicago as it's "City of ...