Articles filed under Chicago
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Long-vacant Ravenswood Hospital being converted to senior apartments, assisted livingJan 22, 2020 10:00 pm - The vacant Ravenswood Hospital on the North Side has long been an eyesore, its walls grubby with graffiti. But on Friday, officials broke ground on an $81 million projec...
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Alderman: Council will set up police review soonJan 22, 2020 10:00 pm - A long-stalled ordinance paving the way for civilian police oversight will pass the City Council in February or March - before Mayor Lori Lightfoot chooses a permanent r...
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Correction: Chicago Schools-Discrimination Lawsuit storyJan 22, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - In a Jan. 21 story about the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit against the Chicago public school district, The Associated Press erroneously reported tha...
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Hearing may set order of R. Kelly's Chicago sex abuse trialsJan 22, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Prosecutors in Chicago were expected to announce on Wednesday which of the sex charges against R&B singer R. Kelly they want to take to trial first. The s...
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Murder suspect's cellphone shows searches for information on the case, the day Hinsdale woman was killed.Jan 22, 2020 12:00 am - Records for murder suspect Dominic Sanders' cellphone show that in the evening of the day Andrea Urban was killed, someone used the phone to search for news about the ca...
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O'Hare on Friday will begin screening some passengers for coronavirusJan 22, 2020 12:00 am - Officials began distributing information Wednesday at O'Hare International Airport and will start health screenings Friday for passengers arriving from the Wuhan region ...
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Juice WRLD died of oxycodone, codeine overdose: autopsyJan 21, 2020 10:00 pm - An autopsy has ruled that rapper-singer Juice WRLD died of an overdose of oxycodone and codeine, the Cook County medical examiner's office said Wednesday. Juice WRLD, bo...
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Boeing doesn't expect Max jet to be cleared until summerJan 21, 2020 12:00 am - Chicago-based Boeing said Tuesday that it doesn't expect federal regulators to approve its changes to the grounded 737 Max until this summer, several months longer than ...
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Alderman's brother accused of being AWOL from city job on New Year's EveJan 20, 2020 10:00 pm - The brother of Alderman Harry Osterman (48th Ward) has been slapped with a five-day suspension after being accused of being AWOL from his $51.10-an-hour job at Chicago's...
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Death of Chicago man shot in 2010 classified as homicideJan 20, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities have classified as a homicide the death of a Chicago man who recently, a decade after he was shot multiple times on the city's West Side. Acc...