Articles filed under Chicago
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Analyst: Exelon will need to increase its bid for NRGMay 25, 2009 11:00 pm - Exelon Corp., the largest U.S. operator of nuclear power plants, will need to raise its $6 billion bid for NRG Energy Inc. as proposed legislation to reduce greenhouse-g...
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Coroner: Girl was stabbed repeatedly in neckMay 25, 2009 11:00 pm - JOLIET -- The Will County coroner says a 4-year-old suburban Chicago girl died after being stabbed repeatedly in the neck. Sabrina Clement was found dead in the basement...
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Merv Griffin gig, bad cold, kept writer off doomed jetMay 24, 2009 11:00 pm - While watching a rehearsal on Chicago's Forum Theatre stage where his hit novel, "Do Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" was less than a week from opening, John Pow...
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Ex-Daily Herald reporter can't ignore, or forget, human toll of Flight 191May 24, 2009 11:00 pm - A young journalism graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Paul Marcotte barely began his 3 p.m. to midnight shift as a cop reporter for the Daily Herald when his Mot...
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Census worker prepares for 6th, and last countMay 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Stan Moore remembers when the U.S. Census count involved punching paper cards for each household. It was just before the 1960 count, the nation's population was around 1...
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Chicago cop charged with killing boy on bikeMay 23, 2009 11:00 pm - An off-duty Chicago police officer faces reckless homicide, DUI and hit-and-run charges after allegedly striking and killing a boy riding his bicycle. The police departm...
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Former tenants charged with murder in death of Glen Ellyn store ownerMay 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Two weeks before his violent death, Michael Norton evicted two tenants in the Chicago building where his beloved convenience shop was a fixture, authorities revealed Sat...
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Devastating crash at O'Hare 30 years ago leaves legacy of safetyMay 23, 2009 11:00 pm - If you think the news is dark these days, try going back 30 years, when on May 25, 1979, it must have literally seemed as if the sky was falling with the crash of Americ...
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Hartmarx accepts $85.5 million ' stalking horse' bidMay 22, 2009 11:00 pm - The jobs of roughly 600 workers at Hart Schaffner & Marx's Des Plaines factory aren't secure yet but their prospects look a lot brighter after company leaders chose a bu...
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2 charged in Glen Ellyn man's murderMay 22, 2009 11:00 pm - A man and woman were charged Friday with the murder of a Glen Ellyn man who died in a robbery at his store in Chicago, police said. Elvin Payton, 26, and Beatrice Rosad...