Articles filed under Chicago
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Incomplete real estate deals may qualify for Chicago transfer taxFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Chicago officials are looking to increase the number of people who pay a real estate transfer tax and to require others to pay it more quickly. The Chicago City Council ...
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Sex offenders too closeFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Hundreds of day care centers across Illinois and one in every four in Chicago have child sex offenders living within 500 feet of their doors -- despite a state law desig...
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Group will protest at two victims' services todayFeb 17, 2008 10:00 pm - The group that has protested at funerals of military personnel killed in the Iraq War announced Sunday they will picket the services of two victims of the Northern Illin...
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Durbin pushes for safer campusesFeb 17, 2008 10:00 pm - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin stressed the need for emergency plans on college campuses Sunday during a press conference at the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago. Legislation...
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Suburban cop released after fatal shootingFeb 17, 2008 10:00 pm - Chicago police say they have released without charges an off-duty suburban police officer involved in a fatal shooting on the city's South Side. Police News Affairs Offi...
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Chicago museum offers virtual tour of 1893 fairFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry occupies the last surviving building from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, the fabled "White City." And this weekend, a li...
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It's lights out for Chicago on March 29Feb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley says it will be lights out for many of the city's public buildings on March 29. Daley said Friday that on that date Chicago will join more...
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Chicago police superintendent announces changesFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Only two weeks after he was sworn in, Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis announced Friday a major shake-up in his command staff. Weis jumped over several ranks to p...
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UIC senior arrested for alleged e-mail threatsFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Police say they have arrested a 24-year-old University of Illinois-Chicago senior after she allegedly sent out e-mails threatening violence on the UIC campus. University...
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Cardinal appoints nun as new head of Chicago diocesan schoolsFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Cardinal Francis George says he has named Sister Mary Paul McCaughey, president of Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, as superintendent of schools for the R...