Articles filed under Chicago
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Two affordable housing complexes win top neighborhood development awardsApr 04, 2018 11:00 pm - When he first started designing Casa Querétaro in 2012, Gabriel Ignacio Dziekiewicz, said he ran into challenges along the way. Funding sources ran dry. Because the buil...
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Wilson says donation aims 'to turn up heat' on EmanuelApr 04, 2018 11:00 pm - He has invited fellow mayoral challengers Garry McCarthy and Paul Vallas to his downtown penthouse to talk about going easy on each other, attacking Rahm Emanuel and uni...
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Why Rainn Wilson almost didn't take role in Steppenwolf's 'The Doppelganger'Apr 04, 2018 12:00 pm - Last year, Steppenwolf Theatre Company made a pie-in-the-sky offer to Hollywood actor Rainn Wilson to star in “The Doppelgänger (an international farce).” The world-prem...
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Campus police officer shoots student wielding long pipeApr 04, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Officials say a University of Chicago police officer responding to a call about a burglary shot and seriously wounded a student who was wielding a metal p...
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Purported mobster who spoke of blow-torch pleads guiltyApr 04, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A purported Chicago-area mob associate who bragged about threatening people with a blow-torch has changed his plea to guilty. The Chicago Tribune reports ...
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Visa difficulties force Cuban symphony to cancel US tourApr 04, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The difficulties that Cubans are having getting visas to travel to the United States has forced the national orchestra to cancel a planned U.S. tour that ...
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Judge convicted of fraud outlines reasons not to step downApr 04, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Cook County judge who was convicted in federal court in Chicago of fraudulently obtaining mortgages for investment properties is fighting to keep her se...
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Ex-bookkeeper for Chicago restaurants charged with fraudApr 04, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A former bookkeeper for two famed Chicago restaurants has been accused of stealing more than $600,000 from the businesses over a six-year period. Renee Jo...
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Calumet City starts using gunshot detection systemApr 04, 2018 7:00 am - CALUMET CITY, Ill. (AP) - The southern Chicago suburb of Calumet City has started using a gunshot detection system that alerts police to the location of gunfire in real-...
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Police: Chicago-area mom shoots sleeping daughter at partyApr 03, 2018 7:00 am - LANSING, Ill. (AP) - Police are investigating after a woman apparently shot and wounded her 5-year-old daughter at a party in suburban Chicago. Police officials in Lansi...