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Cop: "Every night was a battle and a half"
Retired Chicago Police Lt. Bob Angone had been a cop just 31/2 years by August 1968. He was a veteran of the violence surrounding Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s open housing campaign in 1966 and the riots after King's assassination in April. But neither...Tags: Elections, Fatigue, Democratic National Conventions, Politics, Martin Luther King Jr.
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'Hog butcher for the world'
The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world." That came a year earlier, when "hog alley" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of...Tags: Newt Gingrich, Clinton (Middlesex, Connecticut), Union (Tolland, Connecticut), Steaks, Cook County Government
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175 Chicago protesters arrested after being told to leave Grant Park
Tribune reporterChicago police arrested about 175 Occupy Chicago protestors in Congress Plaza just after 1 a.m. Sunday, about 90 minutes after police issued their first warning that the group was violating municipal code. Police completed the last arrests and cleared...Tags: Police Arrests, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Corruption, Activism
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McCarthy gets high marks for handling of NATO security
WGN NewsChicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy was on the front lines at several NATO protests this weekend. He was seen giving orders, directing traffic and he even assisted in an arrest. "We will facilitate your right to free speech but we`re not going to be...Tags: NATO, Garry McCarthy, Jesse Jackson, New York City, NATO Summit
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NATO summit will give Chicago a global boost, poll finds
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has touted the NATO summit as a way to showcase Chicago on an international stage, and much of the Chicago area agrees with that notion, a Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows. Nearly 6 out of 10 voters support hosting the conference and think...
Tags: White House, Elections, Bill Clinton, NATO, Grant Park
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Prosecutors: Undercover work showed 3 men planned to hit police, mayor's house, Obama HQ
Police surrounded the three men — now known as the NATO 3 — outside a Bridgeport drugstore last week and peppered them with questions as officers searched their car.
The two sides traded barbs about the Occupy movement and the 1968 Democratic...Tags: Police Arrests, Bronzeville, Elections, Emergency Incidents, NATO
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Risselle 'Rikki' Fleisher
Risselle "Rikki" Fleisher, a former general counsel to the Maryland Commission on Human Relations who was a legal advocate in civil rights cases, died Tuesday of breast cancer at Stella Maris Hospice. The Bethany Beach, Del., resident was 77.
"She wanted...Tags: HIV, Elections, U.S. Senate, Justice and Rights, University of Pennsylvania
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Take Five: Hello, Mrs. Malaprop, Wherever You Are
Writers love words just like chefs love food. We spend hours tinkering with verbs, nouns and adjectives within all types of techniques and combinations to keep the eyes of our readers glued to the copy we create. We infuse our writing with clever,...Tags: AFLAC Inc., Entertainment, Richard M. Daley, Baseball, Cartoons
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Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' interviewer, dies
NEW YORK — Mike Wallace didn't interview people. He interrogated them. He cross-examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them. His reputation was so fearsome that it was often said that the scariest words in the English language were "Mike Wallace...
Tags: Heart Surgery, Art Buchwald, Henry Kissinger, Music, Richard Nixon
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Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' interrogator, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — "Mike Wallace is here to see you." The"60 Minutes"newsman had such a fearsome reputation that it was often said that those were the most dreaded words in the English language, capable of reducing an interview subject to a shaking,...
Tags: Art Buchwald, Henry Kissinger, Music, Martin Short, Richard Nixon
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PASSINGS: Michael Davis, Dick Anthony Williams, Ric Waite
Michael Davis Bassist for rock band MC5 Michael Davis, 68, the bassist of influential late 1960s rock band MC5, died Friday of liver failure at Enloe Medical Center in Chico, Calif., said his wife, Angela Davis. The Motor City Five, later known as MC5,...
Tags: Drama (genre), Motley Crue (music group), Health, Polio, Hospitals and Clinics
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Emanuel admits he erred on describing G8, NATO parade rules as temporary
Clout StreetMayor Rahm Emanuel today said he erred last month when he said tighter protest rules and higher fines for thwarting police would be temporary measures designed just for a pair of spring meetings of international leaders in Chicago."I misspoke, and I...Tags: Television, Unrest, Conflicts and War, NATO, Vietnam War (1955-1975), International Organizations
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