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Healthy Goldman, Hicks would give Bears destructive duo in 2017Apr 21, 2017 1:00 am - In his first year with the Bears, defensive lineman Akiem Hicks proved to be one of the franchise's best free-agent pickups in recent years. Hicks was signed to a two-ye...
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Ex-Boston Celtic found guilty in Chicago train-guns case
Apr 20, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A former player for the Boston Celtics has been found guilty of receiving guns that were stolen off a freight train in Chicago. A federal jury on Thursday...
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Illinois man sentenced in sanitation-training bribes case
Apr 20, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A 71-year-old suburban Chicago instructor convicted of taking bribes to enable restaurant workers to skip mandated sanitation training has been sentenced ...
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2 students arrested in Chicago-area school shooting plot
Apr 20, 2017 7:00 am - SKOKIE, Ill. (AP) - Police say two students accused of planning to carry out a shooting at their suburban Chicago middle school have been taken into custody. Police in S...
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Chicago agrees to make polling places disabled accessible
Apr 20, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago election officials say hundreds of polling places will need modifications or have to be moved to make them accessible to the disabled. The changes...
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Judge tells protesters to leave charged officer alone
Apr 20, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A judge is warning protesters not to bother the Chicago police officer charged in the shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald when he tries to ma...
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$3M award in suit against drug company over Glencoe man's suicide
Apr 20, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Glencoe woman has been awarded $3 million in a lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company she blamed for her husband's suicide. Wendy Dolin's husband, Ste...
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Chicago aldermen want police to discuss anti-texting tools
Apr 20, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Two Chicago aldermen want the city's police to look into using technology that would detect if motorists involved in injury accidents were texting while d...
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Suspect in St. Louis-area smash-and-grab pleads guilty
Apr 20, 2017 7:00 am - ST. LOUIS (AP) - The last of eight Chicago residents indicted in Missouri for their roles in a smash-and-grab theft of $60,000 worth of handbags at a Saks Fifth Avenue n...
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Lawsuit seeks to block company from selling grocery stores
Apr 20, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago-area labor union has filed a federal lawsuit to block a company from selling two grocery store chains in Illinois and Indiana to an unknown buye...