Chicago
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Taste of Chicago draws more than 3.5 million
Jul 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Despite high fuel prices, the sagging economy and a rash of shootings, organizers say this year's Taste of Chicago drew more than 3.5 million visitors. The 10-day food f...
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Burglary suspect charged with murder
Jul 06, 2008 11:00 pm - A Cook County judge has ordered a Chicago man held in lieu of $1 million bond for allegedly fleeing a burglary in a vehicle that killed a 78-year-old woman in a crash. T...
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Chicago museum opens exhibit on immigration
Jul 06, 2008 11:00 pm - A window washer dressed as Spiderman scales a building. A nanny clad as Cat Woman attends to children. A pizza delivery man wearing Superman garb rides a bike with pies ...
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New surveillance at Taste of Chicago
Jul 05, 2008 11:00 pm - The annual Taste of Chicago ends this evening in Grant Park, and few of the hundreds of thousands who have attended this year's lakefront food festival realize that they...
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Bank robbery suspect attempts suicide
Jul 05, 2008 11:00 pm - A man suspected in Chicago bank robbery reportedly slit his throat with a box cutter as police were moving in to arrest him. The man was arrested Saturday shortly after ...
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Stroger administration hunkers down against pressJul 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Besieged with negative press over a record-breaking $426 million sales tax increase, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's administration is forbidding department h...
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Mickey Hart: Unity, healing through the beatJul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Drummers are expected to focus on rhythm, but Mickey Hart's dedication cannot be compared to that of your average skin brasher. For him, rhythm is seemingly inseparable ...
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5-year-old drowns in harbor
Jul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - A 5-year-old boy is dead after falling into Jackson Park Harbor on Chicago's South Side. Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said the boy fell from a rock l...
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Can it be summer without potholes?Jul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Would somebody at city hall ask the mayor if it's still pothole season. Must be. Because the streets are still a mess and it's July! Timothy D. O'Reilly Chicago ...
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3 hurt, 1 dead in post-fireworks shootings
Jul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - A 19-year-old man was killed and three others wounded in downtown shootings as hundreds of thousands of people left a pre-Independence Day fireworks display on Chicago's...