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Police department suspends cops who lounged in congressman's office
Jan 14, 2021 7:10 PM - The Chicago Police Department has doled out suspensions of up to 20 days against 17 Chicago police officers and supervisors accused of sleeping on a couch, popping popcorn and drinking coffee in the burglarized office of U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush at the same strip mall where looters had a field day last year.
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Welch emerges as House speaker front-runner; Kifowit withdraws
Jan 12, 2021 11:44 PM - One day after state House Speaker Michael Madigan announced a suspension -- but not a withdrawal -- of his campaign for another term as speaker, a state representative who has been accused of being a staunch Madigan protector has launched a bid for the post.
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Authorities: Suburban man threatened violence at Biden inauguration
Jan 12, 2021 2:37 PM - Authorities say a Chicago Heights man threatened violence at next week's inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
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Gunman kills 3 before being shot dead by police in Evanston
Jan 10, 2021 7:52 AM - A gunman shot several people, three fatally, in Chicago and Evanston Saturday afternoon before police killed him during a shootout in a parking lot, police said.
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Chicago teachers warned they won't be paid if they don't show up on Monday
Jan 8, 2021 8:33 PM - Chicago Public Schools will move ahead with its plans to reopen classrooms Monday, and staff members who are supposed to report to schools but don't show up will not be paid.
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Boy who died in fire was home alone with siblings
Jan 7, 2021 8:40 PM - A neighbor, police and firefighters tried to save 6-year-old Ron Johnson, but he died after suffering severe burns in a fire Wednesday on Chicago's South Side.
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Pfleger removed from parish after sexual abuse allegation
Jan 5, 2021 5:44 PM - Father Michael Pfleger, the longtime pastor at St. Sabina Church and an outspoken anti-gun violence advocate, has been removed from the Auburn Gresham parish following revelations of a decades-old sexual abuse allegation against a minor.
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Elgin couple the first married by Cook County clerk in 2021
Jan 4, 2021 10:15 PM - Elgin residents Ashley Graff and Undra Baldwin entered Cook County Clerk Karen A. Yarbrough's lottery to win the first marriage license of 2021 and a live wedding via Zoom that included free flowers, as well as virtual dance and cooking lessons.
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Mayor's office releases some emails about botched raid
Dec 30, 2020 5:32 PM - Mayor Lori Lightfoot's office on Wednesday released some -- but not all -- records related to the botched raid of Anjanette Young's home that confirm Lightfoot was alerted to the search more than a year ago in an email from a staffer who called it "pretty bad."
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Cook County health care, sheriff's employees walk off the job for one-day strike
Dec 22, 2020 8:25 AM - More than 1,500 employees of Cook County's health care and sheriff's departments walked off the job Tuesday morning after their union was unable to come to an agreement with the county over pandemic pay and working conditions, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
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