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Accident closes Chicago expresswayDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - A portion of the northbound lanes of the Bishop Ford expressway on Chicago's South Side are expected to be closed through the weekend after a dump truck hit the undersid...
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Ex charged in murder of Chicago womanDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - The ex-boyfriend of a Chicago drug sales representative found dead in September has been charged in her death. Reginald Potts, 30, of Chicago is being held on first-degr...
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A tale of two candidate visitsDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Two presidential contenders stopped in Chicago on Friday to give a little attention -- in their own, unique ways -- to Illinois voters in the march toward the state's Fe...
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UAL approves $250 million to shareholdersDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - CHICAGO -- United Airlines parent UAL Corp. said Friday it has approved a $250 million special distribution to shareholders and paid down $500 million in debt, citing a ...
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$20 million settles police torture suitsDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - The city of Chicago has agreed to pay nearly $20 million to settle lawsuits filed by four former death row inmates who claimed they were tortured by Chicago police offic...
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Watch out for thorns when looking for Rose Bowl ticketsDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Illini fans are urged to be wary of ticket and travel scams as a New Year's Day Rose Bowl showdown with USC draws near. State consumer protection official...
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Media mogul Black headed for prisonDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Conrad Black, the brash media mogul who vacationed in Bora Bora, rode around London in a Rolls Royce and ended up convicted of swindling shareholders out of millions of ...
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Cops dismiss trucker's tip in Peterson caseDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - A trucker who claimed to have seen Drew Peterson hours after the former police officer's wife disappeared did not actually see the suspect, authorities said Friday. "We ...
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Jackson can donate to wifeDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. may give money from his political fund to help his wife's campaign to be a Democratic ward committeeman under an advisory ruling Thursday. T...
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Unsolved missing person cases show disparity in media coverageDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - If not for the media's obsession with a missing white mother, police in Joliet might never have identified the 14-year-old black girl whose burned body was found in a pa...