Articles filed under Chicago
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Mayor wants accountability in impersonation caseJan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is demanding accountability from police supervisors who were on duty when a 14-year-old boy allegedly impersonated a police officer and went ...
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Women who had sex change sue for birth certificateJan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Two people who've undergone sex-change operations are suing Illinois for refusing to issue them new birth certificates. The women say that for more than 40 years the Ill...
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Boeing posts loss, announces 10,000 job cutsJan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - PITTSBURGH -- Boeing Co., the world's second-largest airplane maker, swung to a surprise fourth-quarter loss, hurt by a labor strike that disrupted deliveries. It also a...
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Noble Fool to salute doo-wop girl groups in 'Taffetas'Jan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Circle Theatre artistic director Kevin Bellie returns to Noble Fool to direct "The Taffetas," a salute to doo-wop girl groups from the 1950s, about a quartet of singing ...
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9 Cook County Jail inmates stabbed during fightJan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Nine Cook County Jail inmates have been hospitalized after an early morning fight in a maximum security wing. Cook County sheriff's office spokesman Steve Patterson says...
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Chicago immigration activist marks year in churchJan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Flor Crisostomo has quietly spent the last year inside a Chicago church writing letters, meeting with school groups and organizing political demonstrations toward her go...
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USG posts 5th straight quarterly loss on slump in home buildingJan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - USG Corp., North America's largest maker of gypsum wallboard, recorded its fifth straight quarterly loss as U.S. home construction fell to the lowest level in at least 4...
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5 charged in death of baby found in squalid NW Side apartmentJan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Authorities in Chicago have charged five people in the death of a baby boy who was found in a filthy, roach-infested apartment on the city's northwest side. Chicago Poli...
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Tenneco, Johnson Controls likely gainers in Obama emissions planJan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - BorgWarner Inc., Tenneco Inc. and Johnson Controls Inc. may boost sales because of President Barack Obama's move to let California set emissions rules that are stricter ...
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3-month-old baby found dead in squalid apartmentJan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Police in Chicago say officers found a dead 3-month-old boy in a crowded, filthy apartment on the city's northwest side. Authorities say the infant was pronounced dead a...