Articles filed under Chicago
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Parents say students' hotel room doors were duct-taped shutMay 19, 2008 11:00 pm - MILLBURY, Ohio -- Ohio parents are complaining to a school board that a chaperone sealed students in their hotel rooms with duct tape during a high school choir field tr...
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Chicago sues eBay over concert ticket taxesMay 19, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The city of Chicago is suing eBay and its subsidiary StubHub for failing to collect city amusement taxes on concert and sporting event tickets sold t...
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A funding crisis for social servicesMay 19, 2008 11:00 pm - For the past few years, private and faith-based social service organizations serving Illinois' most vulnerable residents have quietly labored under an increasing financi...
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Suspect dies from fallMay 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago police say a handcuffed man who was attempting to escape from custody has died of head injuries he suffered when he fell out of a stationary police van after his...
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Threats to history seen in budget cuts, bulldozersMay 19, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The jammed, noisy streets of New York's Lower East Side and the peaceful parks of California don't have much in common at first glance, but both are endang...
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McCain blasts Obama in his hometownMay 19, 2008 11:00 pm - John McCain took his presidential campaign to Barack Obama's home turf with a vengeance Monday, labeling the Democratic front-runner reckless on national security. The p...
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Stroger picked well for health boardMay 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Cook County Board President Todd Stroger named well-qualified, independent nominees to the Bureau of Health Services' interim board of directors. There is no need for S...
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From a cell to a churchMay 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Dwyane Wade sat in the first pew Sunday afternoon, looked at his mother, and simply couldn't hide his emotions. She had made him cry often before. This time, it was diff...
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Man dies in fall from police vanMay 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago police say a handcuffed man who was attempting to escape from custody has died of head injuries he suffered when he fell out of a stationary police van after his...
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State supreme court elects new chief justiceMay 18, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Thomas R. Fitzgerald will be the next chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, replacing DuPage County's Robert Thomas when his term atop the court en...