Articles filed under Chicago
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Prosecutors: 6 accused of corruption in Chicago suburbMar 06, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Federal prosecutors accused six people of government corruption Wednesday, including alleging that the brother of a suburban Chicago mayor extorted paymen...
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Prosecutors: Drug bust recovers more than 1,000 pounds of marijuanaMar 06, 2019 12:00 am - The Illinois State Police North Central Narcotics Task Force, composed of officers from Arlington Heights, Wheeling and other suburban police departments, recovered more...
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Bears ink Pitt's Blewitt to join kicking competitionMar 06, 2019 12:00 am - The Bears are signing Pitt product Chris Blewitt to join their kicking competition. The Panthers' all-time scoring leader, Blewitt emerged from the Bears' second group t...
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Aon says it's no longer pursuing Willis Towers acquisitionMar 06, 2019 12:00 am - Aon said it's no longer pursuing a combination with rival insurance brokerage Willis Towers Watson, a day after confirming that it was considering a tie-up. The company ...
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R. Kelly taken back into custody after child-support hearingMar 06, 2019 12:00 am - CHICAGO — R. Kelly was taken back into custody Wednesday after appearing at a child-support hearing, authorities said, hours after the broadcast of an interview in which...
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$5.25 million settlement adds to legal tally from Burge-era police torture casesMar 05, 2019 10:00 pm - Chicagoans may never know what former Mayor Richard M. Daley had to say in his only sworn deposition about the role he played in the Jon Burge torture era. But one thing...
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Sun-Times cancels mayoral debate after Preckwinkle won't commit to showing upMar 05, 2019 10:00 pm - The Chicago Sun-Times canceled a mayoral debate scheduled for later this week because candidate Toni Preckwinkle was "noncommittal" about her participation. The debate s...
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Chicago poised to pay $5.25 million in police torture caseMar 05, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The price tag of a police torture scandal that's already cost Chicago more than $100 million will likely grow after city attorneys recommended paying $5.2...
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Sound check: Paula Cole, Madeleine Peyroux jazz up North Shore CenterMar 05, 2019 5:00 am - Cole and Peyroux in Skokie Paula Cole busted onto the national scene in 1997 with her Grammy-nominated romantically tragic single “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” But ...
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Chicago cop says he faces retaliation over shooting reportMar 04, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago police officer says in a lawsuit filed Monday that his bosses retaliated against him for refusing to change a police report to list a sergeant w...