Articles filed under Chicago
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Poor excuse for front-page newsAug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - I now understand what it takes to be featured on the front page, top of the fold, of the Daily Herald. All one has to do is to enter the country illegally, give birth to...
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Addison man charged with robbing bank in ChicagoAug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - A 24-year-old Addison man is being held without bond in connection with a July 11 robbery at a bank on Chicago's far Northwest Side. Jorge Gamboa, of 301 S. Hale St., wa...
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Padilla case goes to juryAug 15, 2007 11:00 pm - MIAMI -- Jurors began deliberations Wednesday after three months of testimony in the trial of Jose Padilla and two co-defendants on charges of operating a support cell f...
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Immigrant plans to leave her sanctuaryAug 15, 2007 11:00 pm - An illegal immigrant who took refuge in a Chicago church one year ago to avoid deportation said Wednesday that she plans to leave her sanctuary next month to lobby Congr...
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Briefs: BP's plan to dump decriedAug 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Elected officials and environmentalists meeting in Chicago on Wednesday roundly blasted a decision by Indiana to permit an oil refinery to dump more pollutants into Lake...
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Business briefs: Motorola spent millions to lobbyAug 14, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Mobile handset maker Motorola spent about $3.4 million in the first half of this year to lobby the federal government, according to a disclosure form. The ...
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Regional briefs: Airline passenger chargedAug 14, 2007 11:00 pm - An airline passenger accused of yelling profanities, making crude comments and pushing a flight attendant on a Chicago-Las Vegas flight has been charged in federal court...
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Man held in dermatologist's slayingAug 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Police said Tuesday a man has turned himself in to French authorities in St. Martin and is being held on a federal fugitive warrant in connection with the death of a Chi...
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Obama's wife defends candidateAug 12, 2007 11:00 pm - CHICAGO -- The wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Sunday admonished those who question her biracial husband's credentials as a black man, calling th...
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Whims of time take toll on lifelong writerMay 23, 2003 5:15 am - Editor’s note: This column originally published May 29, 2003 This is the kind of compelling human story Bill Granger was made to tell. Instead, Granger sits in the Illin...