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Illinois' method for measuring student poverty raises count statewide
In the federal government's view, an estimated 1,339 poor schoolchildren live within the affluent Arlington Heights-based School District 59. But the state counted 3,536 poor students when it doled out a "poverty grant" to the district this school year....
Tags: Social Issues, Riverdale (Cook, Illinois), Personal Income, Poverty, Government Aid
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Union compensation to rise $4.81 over 5 years in new Hilton pact
Tribune reporterSix hundred unionized workers at the Drake, Palmer House, Chicago Hilton and Towers and the Hilton O'Hare will see their compensation increase by a total of $4.81 over the course of five years beginning September. The increase is part of a deal signed...Tags: Collective Contract, Chicago Hotels, Employees, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Wage Contract Issues
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Scams blocking Chinese investors' path to U.S. green cards
Jianwei Li and two other wealthy Chinese businessmen thought they had a sure thing when they wired $1 million each to a California firm that had promised to build a fine Chinese restaurant in the Bay Area city of San Bruno. The project had an alluring...
Tags: Lawyers, China, Politics, Migration, Economy, Business and Finance
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FBI: Aurora man wanted to join al-Qaida in Syria
Chicago TribuneAn 18-year-old Aurora man with ties to a foiled attempt last year to bomb a downtown Chicago bar was arrested as he was about to travel to the Middle East to join the al-Qaida terrorist network, federal officials said Saturday. Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, a...Tags: Services and Shopping, FBI, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bombings, Crimes
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Airlines fly above air traffic doomsday predictions
Criticism intensified Monday that the Obama administration is deliberately inconveniencing and potentially endangering the flying public by going ahead with threatened staffing reductions at airport air traffic towers and radar facilities, instead of...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Budget Control Act of 2011, Unemployment, Politics, Jay Carney
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Developer Notes
William Ryan Homes offers Custom Collection With the introduction of William Ryan's Custom Collection, buyers can now select a home site anywhere they want and William Ryan will do the rest. Currently, the company is building a custom home model in...
Tags: Yorkville (Kendall, Illinois), House Building, Architecture, Home Improvement, Environmental Issues
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Widespread flooding closes expressways, many streets
Flooding spawned by as much as 5 inches of rain closed the Edens, Eisenhower and Kennedy expressways this morning as a second wave of thunderstorms moves through the Chicago area. The Edens Expressway was closed between Foster and Touhy avenues and...
Tags: Yorkville (Kendall, Illinois), Metra, Lombard, Montgomery (Kane, Illinois), Midway Airport
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2 men removed from United flight from Boston to Chicago
Tribune reporterTwo men were removed from a United Airlines flight from Boston to Chicago on Tuesday morning for what passengers said was "suspicious activity." The men, aboard early morning United Flight 636, were questioned by authorities and returned to the plane,...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), FBI, United Air Lines, Sports, The Boston Globe
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Biggest city accumulation of the 2012-13 season system pushes February's snow tally into the Top 20
It started as wind-driven ice pellets and freezing rain late Tuesday morning across many sections of the metro area. But by lunchtime, the area's second winter storm in less than a week was in full swing. Howling northeast winds gusting over 40 mph,...Tags: McHenry, Snow Storms
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Lovable losers could be winners in Rosemont
A friend of Rosemont Mayor Brad Stephens now living in Las Vegas called last week to see if the buzz about his buddy the White Sox fan offering to help build a new home for the Cubs was true. "He was like, 'What are you doing? You're a Sox guy,' ''...
Tags: Baseball, Thomas Ricketts, Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, Wrigley Field
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Chicago Crime Overnight Report
Tribune reporterA wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • Someone shot two people in Rogers Park before fleeing in a black car early Saturday morning, the pair of young men wounded among four people shot overnight. Read more • A man died...Tags: Rogers Park
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