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Rennie Davis, 'Chicago Seven' activist, dies at 80Feb 05, 2021 6:00 am - DENVER (AP) - Rennie Davis, one of the 'œChicago Seven'ť activists who was tried for organizing an anti-Vietnam War protest outside the 1968 Democratic National Conventi...
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Chicago Teachers Union: City has stopped negotiatingFeb 05, 2021 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Talks over coronavirus safety protocols at public schools in Chicago have broken off after Mayor Lori Lightfoot and district officials walked away from th...
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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this weekFeb 05, 2021 6:00 am - A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media...
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$22,000 flute lost on Chicago train turns up in pawn shopFeb 05, 2021 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Anyone who's left so much as a hat on a Chicago Transit Authority train knows that whatever leaves the station without its owner often is gone forever. Ex...
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Virus outbreaks stoke tensions in some state capitolsFeb 05, 2021 6:00 am - JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - After only their first few weeks of work, tensions already are high among lawmakers meeting in-person at some state capitols - not because of ...
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CPS plans to lock out some teachers who don't show up MondayFeb 05, 2021 12:00 am - Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Public Schools officials say they will lock out preschool teachers and staff who work with disabled children from remote work if they do...
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Environmental complaint leads to federal discrimination probeFeb 05, 2021 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched an investigation into the Illinois EPA over whether the planned relocation of an industrial scrap shr...
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Transgender inmates' class-action suit can proceedFeb 05, 2021 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - A federal district court in southern Illinois denied a request Thursday from the Illinois Department of Corrections to dismiss a class-action lawsuit again...
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COVID-19 milestone: Vaccines given outnumber cases of the diseaseFeb 05, 2021 12:00 am - Illinois has hit a one-day record of giving 74,965 COVID-19 shots, and it passed another milestone Friday: More people have had an immunization than have had the disease...
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Kyle Rittenhouse fires attorney who helped raise his bailFeb 05, 2021 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. - An 18-year-old Antioch teen who's accused of killing two people and wounding a third during a police brutality protest in Wisconsin last summer fired a C...