Chicago
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State is real villain for high sales taxesApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - During March, I heard many people throughout the Chicago area complain about the budget that the Cook County Board passed because the budget increased the county sales t...
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Rezko trial breaks just before discussion of city real estate schemeApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - The Antoin "Tony" Rezko trial ended with a cliffhanger Friday, with Stuart Levine about to recount his attempt to tape record a player in an allegedly crooked real estat...
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Taxes shouldn't be this hard to payApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Let's say you have recently purchased a new condominium unit in a large development and the county has not yet assigned individual tax parcel numbers to each unit. The e...
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USG work force to be cut by 500Apr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - CHICAGO -- USG Corp., North America's largest maker of gypsum wallboard, will cut 10 percent of its salaried positions for the second time in a year as a U.S. housing sl...
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Justice, civil rights advocate leaves 50-year Chicago legacyApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Those who knew him best agree that the common thread running through each stage of Eugene Pincham's long career was his outspoken passion for legal and racial justice. J...
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Truck driver gets 4 years in tollway crash that killed 8Apr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - In what authorities and victims' families hope serves as a message to the entire trucking industry, a Chicago truck driver blamed for the deaths of eight women in a horr...
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Taxpayers don't get their just dueApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - The taxpaying voters of the city, county and state know now the old saying "you get what you pay for" is untrue. We're paying billions and we're getting squat. If we go...
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Daley threatens tax hikeApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says he will push for another property-tax increase if the state's leaders fail to triple the amount of new money Gov. Rod Blagojevich wants ...
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Teen shot and killedApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Hours before he was fly to Seattle to start life anew, a teenager was gunned down in the South Side Chicago neighborhood where he once lived and frequently visited. Inst...
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Suspended Chicago cop indictedApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - A Chicago police officer whose beating of a handcuffed man in a wheelchair was captured on videotape has been indicted on a federal charge. Prosecutors announced Thursda...