Chicago
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Walgreen profit rises on cost controlsJun 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Drugstore chain Walgreen Co. said Monday its fiscal third-quarter profit rose 2 percent as it focused on cost control and maintained a rapid expansion pace amid a diffic...
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United Airlines cutting 950 pilot jobs
Jun 23, 2008 11:00 pm - UAL Corp.'s United Airlines, the world's second-largest carrier, will lay off 950 pilots, or about 14 percent of the total, while shrinking its jet fleet to save on fuel...
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2 weekend police shooting reviewed
Jun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago's Independent Police Review Authority is investigating two separate police shootings on the city's South Side that left two men dead. Sunday's shootings occurred...
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Three charged in man's shooting death
Jun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Two men and a woman have been charged with stabbing a woman in the ear then shooting and killing her husband as he tried to protect her. Chicago Police say 24-year-old L...
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Duo charged with art theft
Jun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Authorities say two Chicago women were arrested after they tried to steal nearly $600,000 worth of art from a storage locker. Sixty-one-year-old Michele Vasarhelyi and 3...
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Pfleger returns to St. Sabina
Jun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - The Rev. Michael Pfleger, the Catholic priest who got in trouble for mocking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, has returned to his Chicago parish after a nearly two-week susp...
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Man found dead on sidewalk
Jun 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago police are investigating the death of a man who was found unresponsive on a sidewalk on the city's South Side. Officers say emergency workers found 66-year-old G...
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Daley uses Northwestern address to ask for help
Jun 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Mayor Richard Daley says Chicago needs help from Northwestern University graduates. Daley gave the commencement address Friday for the 150th graduating class at the Evan...
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Spertus closes exhibition on Holy Land maps early
Jun 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago's Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies is closing an exhibition on maps of the Holy Land more than two months early after some community members complained it was...
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Chicago Tribune reprimands contractor for T-shirt giveaway
Jun 20, 2008 11:00 pm - The Chicago Tribune reprimanded a contractor who offered customers free Barack Obama and John McCain T-shirts as a gift for new subscribers, newspaper officials said Fri...