Articles filed under Chicago
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New surveillance at Taste of ChicagoJul 05, 2008 11:00 pm - The annual Taste of Chicago ends this evening in Grant Park, and few of the hundreds of thousands who have attended this year's lakefront food festival realize that they...
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Bank robbery suspect attempts suicideJul 05, 2008 11:00 pm - A man suspected in Chicago bank robbery reportedly slit his throat with a box cutter as police were moving in to arrest him. The man was arrested Saturday shortly after ...
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Stroger administration hunkers down against pressJul 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Besieged with negative press over a record-breaking $426 million sales tax increase, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's administration is forbidding department h...
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Mickey Hart: Unity, healing through the beatJul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Drummers are expected to focus on rhythm, but Mickey Hart's dedication cannot be compared to that of your average skin brasher. For him, rhythm is seemingly inseparable ...
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5-year-old drowns in harborJul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - A 5-year-old boy is dead after falling into Jackson Park Harbor on Chicago's South Side. Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said the boy fell from a rock l...
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Can it be summer without potholes?Jul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Would somebody at city hall ask the mayor if it's still pothole season. Must be. Because the streets are still a mess and it's July! Timothy D. O'Reilly Chicago ...
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3 hurt, 1 dead in post-fireworks shootingsJul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - A 19-year-old man was killed and three others wounded in downtown shootings as hundreds of thousands of people left a pre-Independence Day fireworks display on Chicago's...
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State of emergency looms in IllinoisJul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - A lack of cooperation among our legislative leaders and the governor threatens to grind the operations of numerous social service agencies to a halt--the very agencies ...
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Tribune signs repayment dealJul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Tribune Co., owner of the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, signed a $300 million asset-backed commercial paper credit agreement with Barclays Bank PLC, using $225 ...
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Parents win lawsuit over custody disputeJul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - The parents of a child seized by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services have won the lawsuit they filed against the city of Chicago because of the actio...