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Playboy to cut 55 employees

Oct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Playboy Enterprises plans to cut 55 employees and eliminate 25 vacant positions. The Chicago-based publishing and entertainment company made the announcement Wednesday ...
Off-duty police officer killed in crash

Associated Press
Oct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - MATTESON -- An off-duty Chicago police officer is dead after the motorcycle she was driving crashed into a sign. Investigators in the south Chicago suburb of Matteson sa...
Comedians use sign language to entertain deaf audiences

By Jamie Sotonoff
Oct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Keith Wann barely uttered a word during his 90-minute stand-up comedy routine in Streamwood this month, and afterward, there was only a smattering of applause. But the a...
Bail denied teen charged as adult

Associated Press
Oct 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Prosecutors say a Chicago teenager charged with murder in the death of an 8th grader warned the boy a few days before the shooting that he was on a "death list." Friends...
U of C faculty spar over Friedman institute

Bloomberg News
Oct 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Professors at the University of Chicago are battling over a proposed $200 million research center named for Milton Friedman, the late Nobel-prize economist championed by...
Daley proposes slimmed-down Chicago budget

Associated Press
Oct 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Mayor Richard Daley has announced a pared down budget for the city of Chicago that looks to cover a $469 million shortfall. And the mayor told city leaders that this is ...
Patient sues over Chicago surgeon's new device

Associated Press
Oct 14, 2008 11:00 pm - A leading Chicago surgeon who earns royalties on a new heart device used it in a 41-year-old woman without her consent, according to a lawsuit filed by the patient. At l...
WWII-era laborers can get backpay

Associated Press
Oct 14, 2008 11:00 pm - A federal judge says Mexican laborers in a World War II-era guest-worker program can apply for money that was withheld from their paychecks and sent to the Mexican gover...
Man pleads guilty to killing ex-wife, wounding son

Associated Press
Oct 14, 2008 11:00 pm - A Chicago community activist has been sentenced to 55 years in prison after changing his plea to guilty during his trial on charges of killing his wife and wounding his ...
Chicago man accidentally shot by brother dies

Associated Press
Oct 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Authorities say a man who was mistakenly shot in the head by his brother has died. The Cook County medical examiner's office says 18-year-old Jamada Thomas died at Advoc...

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