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Chicago opens warming centers as bitterly cold air arrivesFeb 06, 2021 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The city of Chicago has opened warming shelters amid a wave of bitterly cold air that forecasters say will linger across the region for several days. City...
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Former Illinois Gaming Board chair picked to lead Illinois GOPFeb 06, 2021 12:00 am - Members of the Illinois Republican Party on Saturday picked a former gaming board chief to be the next head of the state party. Don Tracy, a Springfield attorney who was...
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COVID-19 cases per county, ZIP code as of Feb. 5Feb 06, 2021 12:00 am - Interactive mapFind an interactive map where you can search counts by ZIP code at dailyherald.com. Suburbs' portion There have been 485,931 COVID-19 cases...
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More contagious U.K. COVID-19 variant found in Lake CountyFeb 06, 2021 12:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been updated because the 63,080 vaccine doses administered on Friday is not a one-day record, as the IDPH reported Saturday; the IDPH o...
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Police: Suspect in killing of woman, daughters fled on a busFeb 05, 2021 6:00 am - ST. LOUIS (AP) - A man charged with killing a St. Louis woman and her two young daughters took a bus to escape the scene and was captured about 100 miles away in Illinoi...
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Police: Woman slain, man dead from self-inflicted woundFeb 05, 2021 6:00 am - GARY, Ind. (AP) - The bodies of a 35-year-old woman and 23-year-old man have been found in a northwestern Indiana home. Gary police said it appears the woman was slain a...
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No one hurt when jet goes off runway at Chicago-area airportFeb 05, 2021 6:00 am - WHEELING, Ill. (AP) - No one was injured when a small business jet slid off a runway at a suburban Chicago airport, authorities said. The jet with two people aboard went...
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Chicago-area mother charged after newborn found in trash canFeb 05, 2021 6:00 am - GLENVIEW, Ill. (AP) - A 40-year-old suburban Chicago woman has been charged with attempted murder after her newborn was left in a trash can at the nursing home where she...
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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...