Articles filed under Chicago
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Banks block CME's credit swap plansMay 31, 2009 11:00 pm - CME Group Inc.'s plan to guarantee trades in the $29 trillion credit-default swap market is being hampered by some of the world's largest banks, according to a letter fr...
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Exelon bid for NRG Energy goes to trialMay 31, 2009 11:00 pm - A trial started over a challenge to Exelon Corp.'s $6.2 billion hostile-takeover bid for NRG Energy Inc., owner of power plants in Texas, California and the U.S. Northea...
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Well Fargo, Hartmarx in court over proposed saleMay 31, 2009 11:00 pm - A judge has scheduled a hearing in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection case of the Chicago-based company that's made suits for President Barack Obama. Representatives f...
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'Dear Abby' moves from Trib to Sun-TimesMay 31, 2009 11:00 pm - Abby has moved -- across town. Chicago area devotees of the long-running Dear Abby column now have to turn to the Chicago Sun-Times for advice. The column appeared in th...
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Chicago police officer fatally shot on South SideMay 31, 2009 11:00 pm - A plainclothes Chicago police officer who was shot in the head while investigating reports of gunfire on the city's South Side has died. Chicago Police officer John Mira...
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Trial starts for officer in bartender beatingMay 31, 2009 11:00 pm - A former bartender says the alleged attack by a Chicago police officer left her shocked and achy and that when she went to touch her hair afterward, tufts fell out. Karo...
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There's a right way to do video pokerMay 31, 2009 11:00 pm - Illinois is set to embark on the greatest expansion of gaming in the country-an estimated 45,000 additional video poker machines, making an almost fourfold increase in g...
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School records found in Chicago alleyMay 30, 2009 11:00 pm - Authorities say a resident of Chicago's North Side found boxes full of confidential records from special education students at Chicago's Lake View High School in an alle...
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Federal prosecutors probe pension fund investmentsMay 30, 2009 11:00 pm - A federal grand jury in Chicago has issued subpoenas to several city pension fund officials in an attempt to determine how they decided to invest with a real estate comp...
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Campus building named after WalesaMay 30, 2009 11:00 pm - A campus building in Chicago now bears the name of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose Solidarity movement in the '80s helped trigger communism's collapse. Former Polish ...