Marni Pyke
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'Not ready for prime time yet': How local officials are preparing and training for electric vehiclesMay 16, 2022 5:10 am - The electrification of American cars isn't just theoretical at this point, and that's why first responders learned how to extinguish EV fires while mayors got tips on po...
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There will be no getaway from high gas prices over Memorial DayMay 16, 2022 1:00 am - Travel is expected to rebound this Memorial Day weekend after a COVID-19 slump, but road trippers should brace for regular gas to average more than $4 a gallon in 47 sta...
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'This accident was preventable': Family of grandmother killed in Metra crash wants answersMay 12, 2022 1:00 am - National Transportation Safety Board officials said they are focusing on why a box truck froze on the BNSF tracks Wednesday in the path of an oncoming Metra train in Cla...
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Advocate Aurora Health joining southern health care system to create 67-hospital networkMay 11, 2022 1:00 am - Advocate Aurora Health announced Wednesday it will combine with North Carolina-based Atrium Health creating a massive network with 67 hospitals. The union, which is subj...
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NTSB investigating rare Metra passenger death after crash with truck on BNSF lineMay 11, 2022 1:00 am - National Transportation Safety Board authorities are investigating Metra's first passenger death since 2005 after a train collided with a truck Wednesday at a crossing i...
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Jane collective members tell their stories in filmMay 09, 2022 5:30 am - The story of the Jane collective that ran an under-the-radar abortion service for women in the Chicago area before Roe v. Wade is getting new exposure 50 years after pol...
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'Call Jane': How Chicago and suburban women defied authority to provide abortions in the 1970sMay 09, 2022 5:30 am - Fifty years ago, Abby Pariser and Sheila Smith were caring for women undergoing illegal abortions at a secret Chicago location when homicide detectives came calling. “Fi...
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Another glass oasis dries up, this time along Tri-State at HinsdaleMay 09, 2022 1:00 am - How do you remove a massive glass and steel structure suspended over thousands of vehicles traveling at 70 mph? Carefully. Crews started the painstaking process of remov...
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Irvin attacks Pritzker over handling of fatal COVID-19 outbreak at veterans homeMay 09, 2022 1:00 am - GOP gubernatorial candidate and Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin was pugnacious about Gov. J.B. Pritzker's handling of a fatal COVID-19 outbreak at the LaSalle Veterans Home b...
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All suburban counties now at medium COVID-19 risk level, with DuPage approaching highMay 06, 2022 1:00 am - The Chicago Department of Public Health is urging masking indoors in public and on transit to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as cases spike, officials said Friday. Fourt...