Chicago
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Chicago sports teams put up $1 million to fight city's gun violence
Dec 19, 2017 10:00 pm - Chicago's five major professional sports teams announced Wednesday that they will donate a combined $1 million to help reduce the rampant gun violence here. The owners o...
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State court favors city in dispute over food-truck rules
Dec 19, 2017 10:00 pm - A state appeals court panel has unanimously rejected a lawsuit that challenges the city of Chicago's five-year-old ordinance regulating food trucks. In a unanimous rulin...
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Former Wisconsin regulator to lead EPA's Chicago office
Dec 19, 2017 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Former Wisconsin regulator Cathy Stepp was named Tuesday as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regional office in Chicago, drawing praise ...
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Maryland man pleads guilty in Chicago federal hacking case
Dec 19, 2017 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Maryland man has pleaded guilty in Chicago federal court to running a hacker-for-hire service that shut down websites and affected people around the wor...
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Man killed, woman injured in shooting at grocery store
Dec 19, 2017 6:00 am - MAYWOOD, Ill. (AP) - A man has been killed and a woman injured in a shooting at a grocery store in the Chicago suburb of Maywood. The Chicago Tribune rep...
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Chicago airports expect more than 5.2M holiday travelers
Dec 19, 2017 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago aviation officials say they expect more than 5.2 million travelers to pass through O'Hare and Midway international airports this holiday season. T...
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Record numbers of holiday motorists will mean longer delays
Dec 19, 2017 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Thursday will be the season's busiest traffic day in the Chicago area. AAA tells the Chicago Tribune that travel times will triple from 4 ...
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Women charged after 5 hurt with glue gun at Chicago day care
Dec 19, 2017 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Two women are facing charges after five children were injured with a hot glue gun at a Chicago day care where they worked. Police say five 2-year-olds wer...
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Farewell to the Boeing 747, the plane that shrank the world
Dec 19, 2017 12:00 am - For a half-century, Boeing mechanics in a sprawling factory north of Seattle have riveted together aluminum panels into the familiar humpbacked form of the 747 jumbo jet...
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Caucus brands canceled special ed hearing a 'cover-up'
Dec 18, 2017 10:00 pm - The City Council's 11-member Progressive Caucus on Monday demanded to know why this week's Education Committee meeting on special education funding at the Chicago Public...