Articles filed under Chicago
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Chicago-bound train derails near JolietSep 08, 2008 11:00 pm - There were no injuries Monday night when a set of wheels on an Amtrak train traveling from St. Louis to Chicago went off the tracks. The wheels on the first car behind t...
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Shedd's whales, dolphins in new digsSep 07, 2008 11:00 pm - MYSTIC, Conn. -- The John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago has temporarily transferred seven beluga whales and four Pacific white-sided dolphins to the Mystic Aquarium and I...
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CTA cutting jobsSep 07, 2008 11:00 pm - The nation's second-largest transit system announced $40 million in belt-tightening measures Monday despite a more than 5 percent ridership surge in 2008 compared to las...
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15-year-old charged with dumping babySep 07, 2008 11:00 pm - A 15-year-old Chicago girl has been charged with wrapping her newborn baby in a plastic bag and abandoning the infant in an apartment courtyard. Police said Sunday that ...
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Hinsdale man accused of swindling investorsSep 06, 2008 11:00 pm - The Securities and Exchange Commission is accusing a Hinsdale man swindling elderly investors out of more than $1.7 million and using the money for gifts to his wife and...
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5 fatally shot in separate incidentsSep 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago police are investigating five separate and apparently unrelated shooting deaths in the city. The killings occurred Friday afternoon, Friday night and early Satur...
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Chicago Ford plant to eliminate 600 part-time jobsSep 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Ford Motor Company says it's cutting 600 part-time jobs at its Chicago assembly plant when it drops one of its two shifts by early November. The automaker also says an u...
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Catching up with Sky's FowlesSep 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Before Thursday's Sky game against Seattle, I was chatting with Tauja Catchings, the former Stevenson and Illinois basketball star who does color analysis of Sky games o...
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O'Hare flight makes emergency landingSep 05, 2008 11:00 pm - A Boeing 747 bound for Hong Kong made an emergency landing at O'Hare International Airport Saturday because of unspecified problems with a temperature probe, officials s...
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Ravinia patron charged after fight injures oneSep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - A disagreement over seating led to a fight Saturday at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park. Anthony Delgado, 40, of the 7400 block of North Oriole Avenue in Chicago, w...