Articles filed under Chicago
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Teen held without bond in rifle shootingApr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - An 18-year-old Chicagoan is being held without bond in last week's rifle slaying of another Chicago man in the city's Back of the Yards neighborhood. Marcus Pryor appea...
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Man shot at makeshift memorial for teen beaten to death with a batApr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago police say a man was shot and wounded while standing with neighbors at a makeshift memorial to one of the latest Chicago Public School students killed by youth v...
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Two shooting deaths believed to have been murder-suicideApr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Police in Chicago say the shooting deaths of an Indiana woman and a Chicago man appear to have been a murder-suicide. Officer David Banks says 22-year-old Mercedes McCau...
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Prosecutors say suspect could be one of 28 menApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Cook County authorities say they don't know the true identity of a man who is being held in lieu of $350,000 bond on credit card fraud charges. Prosecutors say the man h...
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'Boy in Cookie Jar' forced to moveApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Maurice Lenell Cookie Company, a family owned institution famed for its "Boy in the Cookie Jar" logo, is being forced to consider relocating to Mexico due to labor costs...
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R. Eugene Pincham dead at 82Apr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - R. Eugene Pincham, a longtime civil rights attorney who helped win a multimillion-dollar settlement after two young boys were falsely accused of killing an 11-year-old g...
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Nuclear repeal plan a bad ideaApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - It's fitting that state Rep. JoAnn Osmond (61st District, Antioch) picked April 1st to introduce an amendment to the Public Utilities Act repealing the moratorium on new...
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Three found slain in ChicagoApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Police in Chicago are investigating what appears to be a triple-homicide on the city's South Side. Police spokeswoman Monique Bond says the bodies of two men and a woman...
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More cops on street patrolApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis says more than 200 additional officers will be on the city's streets by the end of the year. Weis says 50 officers who were on de...
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State is real villain for high sales taxesApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - During March, I heard many people throughout the Chicago area complain about the budget that the Cook County Board passed because the budget increased the county sales t...