Articles filed under Chicago
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Liquor store owner to give $125 for turned in gunsJul 20, 2008 11:00 pm - A Chicago liquor store owner is offering $125 to any person who turns over a gun to city police. Raymond Figueroa says he believes he has to raise consciousness. The own...
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High-tech college Flashpoint Academy draws raves, criticsJul 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Maine South graduate Lisa Shanahan loves music, but not math or science or most other subjects found on a school report card. For years, Shanahan struggled to find her n...
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DuPage men charged in attack on police officerJul 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Authorities have filed multiple felony charges against a Glen Ellyn man who is accused of striking a Chicago police officer with a vehicle during a traffic stop and flee...
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Tattoo parlor faces second lawsuitJul 19, 2008 11:00 pm - CHICAGO -- A Chicago man with a misspelled "tomorrow" in a tattoo on his forearm has filed a negligence lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against the tattoo parlor wh...
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Public Enemy Brings The NoiseJul 19, 2008 11:00 pm - The 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival began Friday night with a history lesson for the music lovers assembled in Chicago's Union Park. Now in its third year, the weekend-lon...
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CTA: Minor derailment on Red LineJul 19, 2008 11:00 pm - A spokeswoman for the Chicago Transit Authority says a southbound train on the Red Line derailed at the Chinatown stop on the city's South Side, but no one was injured. ...
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The Sun cuts about 100 jobsJul 18, 2008 11:00 pm - BALTIMORE -- The (Baltimore) Sun completed its latest round of job cuts Friday by eliminating about 100 positions. Fifty-five of those jobs were in the newsroom, accordi...
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Plane overshoots O'Hare runway; 1 injuredJul 18, 2008 11:00 pm - A Mexicana Airlines flight overshot a runway while landing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Friday night and struck a safety barrier, injuring a flight attendan...
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Tribune ends first round of bids for Cubs, WrigleyJul 18, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The Chicago Cubs and their storied Wrigley Field home inched closer to finding new owners Friday. Tribune Co. -- which has not publicly set a timetable for t...
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The irony behind NAFTA's realityJul 18, 2008 11:00 pm - The NAFTA agreement is to stimulate trade between agreement member countries. We buy their merchandise and they buy ours, sounds good. But what happened? It seems that...