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City Council approves Chicago mayor's $11.6B budget planNov 26, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago City Council has passed Mayor Lori Lightfoot's $11.6 billion budget plan by a 39-11 vote. Lightfoot's office says Tuesday the budget is balanc...
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Authorities identify men charged after horses found deadNov 26, 2019 6:00 am - MARENGO, Ill. (AP) - Authorities have identified two men charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty after two horses were found dead and five others severely malnourished i...
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Suspect in killing of Chicago college student denied bailNov 26, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A man charged with first-degree murder in the strangulation death of a 19-year-old University of Illinois at Chicago student has been ordered held without...
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Lightfoot gets her first budget through city councilNov 26, 2019 12:00 am - Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel pitched a shutout in his first big game on a new field, even though his first city budget doubled water and sewer rates, raised city sticker fe...
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Concert to raise money for teen shot as police chased robbery suspectNov 26, 2019 12:00 am - A concert Saturday at a North Side music venue will raise money for Rylan Wilder, the 15-year-old guitar player struck by a stray bullet as Chicago and Des Plaines polic...
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Prosecutors: Man killed Naperville Central grad after she ignored his catcallsNov 26, 2019 12:00 am - A man charged with strangling a 19-year-old University of Illinois at Chicago student last weekend in a campus parking garage became angry and put her into a chokehold w...
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City treasurer defends decision to hire private security at public expenseNov 25, 2019 10:00 pm - City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin on Monday defended her decision to hire private security - at taxpayers' expense - to replace a police bodyguard detail stripped aw...
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Authorities ID Indiana trooper shot in leg during standoffNov 25, 2019 6:00 am - BROOKSBURG, Ind. (AP) - Indiana State Police have identified a trooper who was shot in the leg during a standoff at a southern Indiana home. They say 18-year veteran Mas...
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Longtime Rep. Woody Burton retiring from Indiana LegislatureNov 25, 2019 6:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The brother of former U.S. Rep. Dan Burton is planning to retire after 32 years in the Indiana Legislature. Republican state Rep. Woody Burton of Whi...
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Activist Chicago priest, George Clements, dead at age 87Nov 25, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The Rev. George Clements, the Chicago priest whose civil rights and social justice activism led to a television movie about his career, died Monday at the...