Articles filed under Chicago
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Obama tells black fathers to engage their childrenJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Barack Obama celebrated Father's Day by calling on black fathers, who he said are "missing from too many lives and too many homes," to become active in raising their chi...
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Driver dies 2 months after crashJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Officials say the 64-year-old driver who crashed a semitrailer into a Chicago Transit Authority train station in April has died. The Cook County medical examiner's offic...
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Small loans a big businessJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Clementine Uzabakiriho parlayed her first $36 loan into the seed money for her sorghum business in Rwanda. Oak Brook-based Opportunity International arranged the loan th...
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77,000 without power in northern IllinoisJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - As Northern Illinois braces for another line of thunderstorms, utility crews are working to restore service to those left without power by a morning front. ComEd says ab...
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Nursing home smoking harmfulJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Based on Centers for Disease Control data about second-hand smoke and my experiences with getting threatened for wanting an elderly person to avoid, second-hand smoking ...
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Police shoot two people in separate incidentsJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago's Independent Police Review Authority says it is investigating two separate weekend incidents in which Chicago police shot people -- one of them fatally. The fir...
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Cops seize more than 30 pit bullsJun 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Authorities in Chicago say they seized more than 30 pit bulls in a raid on a South Side home, and the animals appeared to have been used for dogfighting. Sergeant Eldon ...
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Bush and Cheney must be impeachedJun 13, 2008 11:00 pm - America's reputation, as well as the American people themselves, has suffered due to the horrific crimes against the Constitution, which the Bush/Cheney administration h...
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Chicago city official sentenced to 15 months for briberyJun 13, 2008 11:00 pm - A federal judge has sentenced a former Chicago Department of Buildings supervisor to 15 months in prison for taking bribes. In passing sentence yesterday on Kurt Berger,...
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End power struggle and pass capital billJun 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Two weeks ago, the Illinois Works Coalition unveiled its recommendations for a $34 billion capital bill. We are pleased to report that during the last week of this legis...