Chicago
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Oil executive succumbs to pneumonia
Sep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Chicago banker and oil executive John E. Swearingen, who led Standard Oil Co. of Indiana to become the sixth-largest U.S. company, died at a Birmingh...
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'Hand-washing police' find one-third of men still fail to wash up after bathroom use
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Chicago Public Radio turning its image on its headSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Someone just took a punch to the face by a middle-aged Las Vegas woman in some club off the strip, and it isn't even noon yet. Here's how it goes down from my end of th...
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Defense attorney unhappy with delay in mob trial
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Tired of hearing CTA beg for moneySep 14, 2007 11:00 pm - I am sick and tired, as a CTA daily rider, of the CTA complaining that they don't have enough money. Well it's time to raise fares, eliminate routes and run the organiza...
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Paratransit needs are being ignoredSep 14, 2007 11:00 pm - As we commemorate 9/11 a state of emergency exists in Illinois for mass transit riders, drivers and the disabled. Paratransit riders face life-threatening conditions whe...
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Health coverage should expandSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Congress recently voted to expand SCHIP and make affordable health insurance available to millions more kids while also strengthening Medicare. In response, alarmists ha...
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Activist's son in MexicoSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Eight-year-old Saul Arellano joined his mother in Mexico on Thursday following her loss in a yearlong fight to stay in the United States despite her status as an undocum...
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Misplaced nostalgia for language modelSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - In the Hidalgo County model that Mr. Reyes looks fondly back on ("Are Spanish-speaking students 'coddled,' " Daily Herald, Sept. 2), limited English proficient (LEP) st...
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Briefs: Restaurant chain charged by EEOCSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - CHICAGO -- Buona Beef Inc., a restaurant chain with 11 locations in the Chicago suburbs, violated federal law by subjecting female employees to sexual harassment, the U....