Articles filed under Chicago
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The warmest Jan. 6 in 100 yearsJan 05, 2008 10:00 pm - A day like this only comes around once in 100 years. That's right. You have to go back to 1907 to find a January 6 that was as warm as it was Sunday in the Chicago area....
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French authorities to study evidence in killing of Chicago doctorJan 05, 2008 10:00 pm - French prosecutors will come to Chicago this month to study evidence in the case of a dual-citizen man accused of killing a Chicago dermatologist in 2006. An arrest warr...
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Man indicted in slaying of kidnapped womanJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - The former boyfriend of a slain pharmaceutical representative was indicted Friday. Cook County state's attorney spokesman Andy Conklin says Reginald Potts was indicted o...
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Sun-Times to lay off reporters, editorsJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - CHICAGO -- Sun-Times Media Group Inc. told the Chicago Sun-Times staff Friday it plans to eliminate as many as 35 jobs in the newsroom as part of companywide cutbacks. W...
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Linguists choose 'subprime' as 2007 word of the yearJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Even the American Dialect Society knows how risky home mortgages are these days. The group of linguists chose "subprime" as 2007's Word of the Year at their annual conve...
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Bottled water tax challengedJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Retailers are fighting Chicago's new tax on bottled water. Industry groups allege the 5-cent-a-bottle tax is unconstitutional in a lawsuit filed Friday in Cook County. ...
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2 plead innocent in loan fraud caseJan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - A former fundraiser to Gov. Rod Blagojevich pleaded not guilty Thursday to new charges of loan fraud, as did a new defendant in the case. Antoin "Tony" Rezko of Wilmette...
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Lombard man's reign as couch potato king comes to an endJan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - Jason Pisarik took the lazy way out. The Lombard man, who was participating this week in the "Ultimate Couch Potato" at ESPN Zone in Chicago, bowed out of the annual sit...
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Washington Mutual to close stores, lay off 150Jan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - Washington Mutual told employees today it intends to close 25 local branches and cut about 150 jobs. The cutbacks are scheduled to be made by mid-April and will leave Wa...
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Corrupt Chicago cop gets 25 yearsJan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - The admitted leader of a band of Chicago police officers who ripped off drug dealers and funneled narcotics onto the city's streets was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in...