Chicago
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University of Chicago tries to ease fears after shooting
Nov 20, 2007 10:00 pm - A campus thriving amid the violence and poverty that plagues much of Chicago's South Side is on alert in the wake of the shooting death of Senegalese doctoral student an...
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Chicago considers residential chicken ban
Nov 20, 2007 10:00 pm - Live chickens aren't meant for big-city neighborhoods. At least that's how some Chicago aldermen see it and they're moving to ban the keeping of the birds in residential...
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Possible Sears' bid for Restoration Hardware gets mixed reviews
Nov 20, 2007 10:00 pm - CHICAGO -- For months, Wall Street has been waiting for hedge fund wizard Ed Lampert to reveal his plan to turn around ailing retailer Sears Holdings Corp. Investors got...
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City's landmark el system could become big liability
Nov 20, 2007 10:00 pm - As a civil engineer, Om Goel had faith that Chicago's el, however old, rickety and perennially cash-strapped, was maintained well enough that the trains would at least s...
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Despite racist slurs, review panel says city worker will keep job
Nov 20, 2007 10:00 pm - Despite using a racial slur and dressing up as a Ku Klux Klansman, a supervisor in this city's Department of Transportation will not lose his job, a review panel has dec...
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Student shot near U. of C. campus
Nov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - Officials with the University of Chicago say a 28-year-old international student was shot and killed early Monday morning while walking near campus. University President...
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Search continues for Chicago teen
Nov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - Police are searching for a missing 14-year-old girl from Chicago's South Side who was last seen nearly a week ago. Deanna Glass is a straight-A student who disappeared T...
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Time to create truth commissionNov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - It's time for a South African-style Truth Commission here in our beloved USA. Too many laws have been broken, too many Constitutional provisions have been ignored, too m...
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Guilty plea in Chicago Medical School fund scandalNov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - Another player has fallen to the feds in a scam involving political powerbroker Stuart Levine and the former Chicago Medical School. John Glennon, who did bond work for ...
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Lesbian ordained in Chicago church
Nov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - A Lutheran church in Chicago has ordained a 27-year-old lesbian pastor who refuses to take a vow of celibacy, becoming the first to test a new resolution that gives bish...