Chicago
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Festive, optimistic Obama supporters fill Grant ParkNov 03, 2008 10:00 pm - A festive, optimistic crowd filed into Grant Park for Sen. Barack Obama's evening rally this afternoon, helped by a police decision to allow access early. Although early...
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Cubs' Hughes to emcee Pitch and Hit banquetNov 03, 2008 10:00 pm - Cubs radio broadcaster Pat Hughes will serve as the master of ceremonies at the Pitch & Hit Club of Chicago's 63rd annual awards banquet on Jan. 25th at the Donald E. St...
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Chicago officials cut free trolley serviceNov 03, 2008 10:00 pm - Chicago is ending its free trolley service next year. The red San Francisco-style trolley cars, heavily used by tourists, stop at several of the city's most well-known a...
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Circuit City closing stores; 14 could go in IllinoisNov 02, 2008 10:00 pm - After months of speculation and struggling sales, Circuit City Inc. Monday said it would close 155 stores, including half of its locations in the Chicago area. Company o...
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Boeing workers return to work after ending strike
Nov 02, 2008 10:00 pm - SEATTLE -- Boeing Co. production workers began returning Sunday night to the factories where they build jetliners, one day after they voted to end a costly eight-week st...
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7 injured in shooting outside Chicago club
Nov 02, 2008 10:00 pm - Police in Chicago say seven people were wounded in an early morning drive-by shooting outside a club on the city's West Side. Police say they don't know what the motive ...
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Chicago woman crushed in chain-reaction crash
Nov 02, 2008 10:00 pm - Chicago police say a South Side woman was crushed to death under her own stalled vehicle when it was rear-ended while she was looking under the hood. A man was also crit...
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Vrdolyak pleads guilty in kickback scheme
Nov 02, 2008 10:00 pm - A former Chicago political leader who led white aldermen in a spectacular feud with the city's first black mayor 25 years ago pleaded guilty Monday for his role in a rea...
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Mourners celebrate lives of slain Hudson relatives
Nov 02, 2008 10:00 pm - Mourners in Jennifer Hudson's childhood church Sunday listened as the second-grade teacher of the entertainer's slain nephew read aloud from journals written by his clas...
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Men pretending to be police officers tie up 7
Nov 02, 2008 10:00 pm - Authorities say four men identifying themselves as police officers forced their way into a Chicago home and tied up seven people. One person was transported to Our Lady ...