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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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Ex-Rolling Meadows cop subject of child porn investigation
Dec 21, 2020 9:45 PM - Federal authorities have been investigating a onetime Rolling Meadows police officer on allegation he used a dating website to either collect child pornography from minors or to sexually abuse girls, court records show.
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'Preventable tragedy': Inverness family sues Peace Corps over daughter's malaria death
Dec 19, 2020 6:34 PM - Bernice Heiderman's parents say the 24-year-old volunteer endured a painful death from malaria that went undiagnosed by a local Peace Corps physician as well by a medical officer in Washington. On Friday, the family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in federal court in Chicago against the U.S. government.
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Round Lake Park man accused of revenge killing in Chicago
Dec 16, 2020 10:53 PM - A Round Lake Park man wanted revenge when he shot into a crowd of people in Chicago's Austin neighborhood over the summer and killed a man he believed was responsible for the death of a family friend, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Des Plaines mechanic who died in O'Hare accident 'was taking care of everyone' in his family
Dec 16, 2020 3:22 PM - Jijo George, 35, died Sunday after being crushed by an "aircraft drivable pushback apparatus" at hangar 764, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. He was the main provider for his Des Plaines household, which also included his parents and brother's family.
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Sox manager La Russa expected to plead guilty to misdemeanor reckless driving
Dec 13, 2020 6:54 PM - White Sox manager Tony La Russa is expected to plead guilty to misdemeanor reckless driving under the terms of a four-page plea agreement obtained Sunday by the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Jim Burns, state inspector general, dies at 75
Dec 11, 2020 9:06 PM - Longtime Illinois Secretary of State Inspector General Jim Burns, who served four years as Chicago's U.S. attorney, died this week at 75. Secretary of State Jesse White announced the death of Burns, who also once ran for governor and played for the Chicago Bulls, in a news release Friday.
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'Cheer' star from Naperville indicted on new charges
Dec 11, 2020 4:21 PM - "Cheer" star Jerry Harris faces several new criminal charges in an indictment made public Friday afternoon. Harris, who is from Naperville, is charged with child pornography and sex crimes involving four victims in the new seven-count indictment that alleges misconduct in Illinois, Florida and Texas.
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O'Hare, Midway to offer COVID-19 tests
Dec 8, 2020 4:54 PM - Air travelers and employees at O'Hare and Midway airports will have access to two types of tests for the coronavirus under a program unveiled Tuesday touted as the "most comprehensive offered by any airport system in the nation."
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Illinois schools are not COVID-19 superspreaders, data shows
Dec 4, 2020 3:43 PM - Even as the region enters its worst period of the pandemic thus far, the vast majority of public and private schools in the Chicago area that have reopened in some capacity this fall have had little confirmed exposure to the coronavirus in the past month, according to a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of state data.
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