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No CTA fare increases, service cuts in 2020 budgetOct 23, 2019 11:00 pm - Attention CTA riders: The CTA will not be raising fares or cutting service next year. The welcome news was part of the transit agency's proposed $1.57 billion operating ...
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Lightfoot says city will not bail out school system, grant all union demandsOct 23, 2019 1:00 am - As Chicago Public Schools classes were canceled for the sixth consecutive day due to the teachers strike, Mayor Lori Lightfoot vowed that the city would not bail out the...
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Lightfoot to declare $300 million TIF surplus - largest in Chicago historyOct 22, 2019 11:00 pm - Mayor Lori Lightfoot's 2020 budget includes a $300 million tax increment financing surplus - the largest in Chicago history - just to help bankroll the $500 million offe...
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State police: Missing Woodstock woman's remains foundOct 22, 2019 1:00 am - Authorities have identified the remains of a Woodstock woman who has been missing for nine years, according to Illinois State Police. Benedetta "Beth" Bentley, 41, w...
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Police superintendent will boycott Trump's speech in ChicagoOct 22, 2019 1:00 am - President Donald Trump on Monday will make his first visit to the city since becoming president and will speak to the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the ...
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Jury finds two Chicago cops guilty in corruption caseOct 21, 2019 11:00 pm - A federal jury on Tuesday found two Chicago cops, David Salgado and Xavier Elizondo, guilty of all counts in a corruption case. Both men were convicted on each of the fi...
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Chicago mobster 'Joey the Clown' Lombardo dies in prisonOct 20, 2019 1:00 am - Notorious Chicago Outfit killer Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo died Saturday while serving a life prison sentence, federal prosecutors said on Sunday. Lombardo was 90 ...
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Ravinia's leader stepping down after 2020 seasonOct 19, 2019 1:00 am - Welz Kauffman, the Ravinia Festival president and CEO who has helmed the world-renowned music behemoth in Highland Park for nearly two decades, will be stepping down fro...
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Lightfoot: Teacher talks progress, classes unlikely to resume MondayOct 19, 2019 1:00 am - The Chicago Teachers Union and city leaders each praised "progress" made at the bargaining table as the teachers' strike entered its third day, but Mayor Lori Lightf...
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Chicago OKs marijuana zoning, prohibits sales in LoopOct 16, 2019 1:00 am - Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's plan to establish zoning ground rules for the sale of recreational marijuana in Chicago cleared the city council Wednesd...