Chicago
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Chicago alderman collapses during council budget hearing
Nov 02, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Alderman Willie Cochran collapsed during a city council budget hearing at City Hall. Paramedics were called to the scene on Thursday. Chicago Poli...
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Gang member faces sentencing in Chicago for train gun theft
Nov 02, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago gang member is facing sentencing for helping steal about 100 new guns from a freight train. A judge is set Thursday to sentence 38-year-old Patr...
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Popular news sites Gothamist, DNAinfo shut down abruptly
Nov 02, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Two popular New York City news sites and their satellites in Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere were shut down a week after their New York staffs voted...
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West Virginia cities sue accrediting group over painkillers
Nov 02, 2017 7:00 am - CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Several West Virginia municipalities are suing The Joint Commission, claiming the Chicago-based health care accreditation group downplayed the d...
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Priest charged with assaulting developmental center resident
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Grayslake family happy their tree will be Chicago's for ChristmasNov 02, 2017 1:00 am - A living memory for generations of two Grayslake families was felled Thursday, but the sound of buzzing chain saws was met with pride rather than sadness. The 62-foot No...
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Matriarch giraffe at Brookfield Zoo near Chicago euthanized
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Feder: Ricketts shuts down DNAinfoNov 02, 2017 1:00 am - DNAinfo Chicago, the hyperlocal digital news enterprise, was abruptly closed Thursday along with its counterparts in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington,...
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US, Illinois sue owners of youth counseling center for fraud
Nov 01, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The federal government and the state of Illinois have filed a lawsuit accusing a suburban Chicago youth counseling center of defrauding Medicaid of millio...
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Chicago sees drop in homicides in October
Nov 01, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The number of homicides in Chicago in October was significantly lower than during October 2016, but 2017 still will be one of the most violent years in re...