Chicago
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City Council approves Chicago mayor's $11.6B budget plan
Nov 26, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago City Council has passed Mayor Lori Lightfoot's $11.6 billion budget plan by a 39-11 vote. Lightfoot's office says Tuesday the budget is balanc...
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Suspect in killing of Chicago college student denied bail
Nov 26, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A man charged with first-degree murder in the strangulation death of a 19-year-old University of Illinois at Chicago student has been ordered held without...
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Lightfoot gets her first budget through city council
Nov 26, 2019 12:00 am - Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel pitched a shutout in his first big game on a new field, even though his first city budget doubled water and sewer rates, raised city sticker fe...
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Concert to raise money for teen shot as police chased robbery suspect
Nov 26, 2019 12:00 am - A concert Saturday at a North Side music venue will raise money for Rylan Wilder, the 15-year-old guitar player struck by a stray bullet as Chicago and Des Plaines polic...
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Prosecutors: Man killed Naperville Central grad after she ignored his catcalls
Nov 26, 2019 12:00 am - A man charged with strangling a 19-year-old University of Illinois at Chicago student last weekend in a campus parking garage became angry and put her into a chokehold w...
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City treasurer defends decision to hire private security at public expense
Nov 25, 2019 10:00 pm - City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin on Monday defended her decision to hire private security - at taxpayers' expense - to replace a police bodyguard detail stripped aw...
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Activist Chicago priest, George Clements, dead at age 87
Nov 25, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The Rev. George Clements, the Chicago priest whose civil rights and social justice activism led to a television movie about his career, died Monday at the...
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How a struggling Chicago neighborhood made its way back
Nov 25, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Many know the violent repute of parts of this city, the shootings, gangs, forgotten main streets and residential blocks plagued with boarded-up houses and...
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Family wants to know if Des Plaines, Chicago police were culpable in shooting of boyNov 25, 2019 12:00 am - The family of the 15-year-old Chicago boy shot by a Des Plaines police officer pursuing a bank robbery suspect last week wants the Des Plaines and Chicago police departm...
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Man charged in murder of Naperville Central grad at UIC
Nov 25, 2019 12:00 am - The murder of a University of Illinois Chicago freshman over the weekend has devastated her family and friends, who remember her as "the sweetest person" with the "brigh...