Articles filed under Chicago
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Chicago seeing deadliest Memorial Day weekend since 2015May 25, 2020 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Nine people were killed and another 27 wounded in weekend shootings in Chicago as of early Monday, already marking the deadliest Memorial Day weekend in t...
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Illinois lawmakers pass $40B budget, Chicago casino measureMay 24, 2020 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois lawmakers approved an approximately $40 billion state budget early Sunday that largely maintains spending, along with a plan to push fo...
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Longtime Chicago Memorial Day parade goes onlineMay 24, 2020 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Memorial Day parade on Chicago's North Side that's been around for more than a half century is going forward virtually this year. The Wellington-Oakdal...
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Chicago vendors help with census outreach among the homelessMay 23, 2020 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A service organization is partnering with magazine street vendors in Chicago to help collect data on the city's homeless population after the COVID-19 pan...
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Mediators hope to reduce holiday weekend violence in ChicagoMay 23, 2020 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Hundreds of mediators and street intervention workers will be on the streets of Chicago for the holiday weekend in what an organizer described as one of t...
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Chicago Police plan more holiday, summer weekend patrolsMay 23, 2020 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Police are increasing patrols and other agencies will help staff a new operations center beginning this weekend as the Memorial Day holiday marks ...
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Virus threat prompts prison release of convicted Chicago copMay 23, 2020 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A federal judge has ordered that a former Chicago police officer convicted of conspiring with a gang member in the kidnappings and robberies of drug deale...
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Chicago mayor estimates city can begin reopening in JuneMay 22, 2020 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago cannot begin to loosen restrictions designed to limit the spread of the coronavirus before early June, officials in the nation's third-largest cit...
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Chicago Latinos see higher rates of COVID-19 infectionsMay 22, 2020 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - When Erendira Martinez's husband started feeling sick at the beginning of April, he brushed off his cough and told her it was nothing. 'œHe was embarrasse...
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Suburban Chicago officer charged with battering wife, kidsMay 22, 2020 7:00 am - PORTAGE, Ind. (AP) - An off-duty suburban Chicago police officer has been charged in Indiana with choking his wife to the point of unconsciousness as their three childre...