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Citing $838M deficit, Lightfoot warns of 'hard choices' aheadAug 29, 2019 1:00 am - Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday entered the living rooms of Chicagoans in a televised address to warn of "hard choices" ahead, revealing a staggering deficit of $838 mi...
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Positives and negatives from the Bears' preseason finaleAug 29, 2019 12:00 am - The best news coming from the Bears' 19-15 defeat vs. the Tennessee Titans Thursday is it marked the end of the preseason and the Green Bay Packers come to town in less ...
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Hub Arkush: Two Bears stand out in preseason finale loss to TitansAug 29, 2019 12:00 am - On a beautiful late summer evening on the lakefront in a half-full Soldier Field, the Chicago Bears finally brought down the curtain Thursday on an exhibition season tha...
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Mayor, police announce plan to track gun offendersAug 28, 2019 11:00 pm - Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Thursday they are planning monthly meetings with Cook County, state and federal officials in an...
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CPS approves new rules for cops in schools, but concern over 'school-to-prison pipeline' remainsAug 28, 2019 11:00 pm - An agreement that set new ground rules for officers working in Chicago Public Schools was approved Wednesday despite months of public scrutiny and heavy criticism from s...
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Girl dies after temporary walls fall at Chicago-area storeAug 28, 2019 7:00 am - ORLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) - Police say a 2-year-old died after two temporary steel walls toppled onto her as she played at a suburban Chicago mall. Orland Park's police chi...
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Prosecutors: Kansas drug network tied to Chicago dismantledAug 28, 2019 7:00 am - TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Authorities said Wednesday that they've dismantled a major drug-trafficking operation in northeast Kansas responsible for a college student's fatal o...
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Girl, 16, fatally shot sitting in a car outside ChicagoAug 28, 2019 7:00 am - DOLTON, Ill. (AP) - Police say a 16-year-old girl has been fatally shot while sitting in a car outside a convenience store in a Chicago southern suburb. Dolton police sa...
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Spotlight: Paramount Theatre launches season with musical 'Newsies'Aug 28, 2019 6:00 am - Read all about it Paramount Theatre opens its Broadway season with "Newsies," the stage adaptation of the 1992 Disney film about the New York City newsboy strike of 1899...
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Lightfoot vows to show 'path forward' in Thursday's 'State of the City' addressAug 28, 2019 1:00 am - Though Mayor Lori Lightfoot has dismissed the first-100-days tradition as a "Hallmark holiday created by the media, not us," the first-term mayor spent Wednesday touting...