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Fixing Failing Schools
WGN NewsTonight's Cover Story is an inside look at what's being done to fix Chicago's most broken public schools. A non-profit group, armed with noble goals and dedicated staff, has been awarded contracts for eighteen Chicago schools, with a mandate to turn...Tags: The Huffington Post, Students, Nat King Cole, Chicago Public Schools, Teaching and Learning
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Bronzeville man dies 2 days after motorcycle accident
Tribune reporterA 19-year-old Chicago man died two days after his motorcycle hit a car making a U-turn on the South Side, police said. The collision occurred about 1:25 p.m. Monday in the 7400 block of South Loomis Boulevard, Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Ron...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Accidental Death
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3 killed, 6 wounded in separate overnight attacks
Tribune reporterThree people, including a 17-year-old boy, were killed and at least six people were injured in spates of violence across the city, Chicago police said. In the first late Wednesday night fatal shooting, the teen was shot in the neck at about 10 p.m. in...Tags: John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, South Chicago, Injuries and Wounds, Shootings
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The creative stew that was Bronzeville
On Nov. 22, 1981, the Rolling Stones paid tribute to black history at the Checkerboard Lounge on East 43rd Street. In town for concerts at the then-Rosemont Horizon, the famed rock group made a pilgrimage to the South Side, where their musical style and...Tags: Checkerboard Lounge, Keith Richards, Muddy Waters, Concerts, Mick Jagger
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Man slain, another wounded in Bronzeville shootings
A 25-year-old man was killed and a 34-year-old man was robbed and shot during separate attacks in the Bronzeville neighborhood Monday night, police said. The fatal shooting took place at 8:35 p.m. on the 600 block of East 45th Street, said Chicago Police...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Theft, Chicago, Cook County
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Listing: Chicago-area farmers markets
An early spring will bring not only May flowers to the farmers markets this year, but also an abundance of farm-fresh produce earlier than usual, while preparations for Chicago's first NATO summit will delay two downtown markets.
The Daley Plaza...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois), Rahm Emanuel, North Lawndale, YMCA
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2 held after shots fired near Chicago Police headquarters
Two men are in custody after police said they fired shots at two people near police headquarters in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side Friday afternoon. A Chicago Police bike unit officer on patrol heard shots being fired as he was in the...
Tags: Michigan Avenue, Shootings
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Suspects' Plans To Fire-Bomb Obama's Campaign Headquarters Net Terrorism Charges, Chi-Town Cops
Tribune ReportersThree out-of-state men arrested in a Bridgeport apartment raid days before the NATO summit considered hitting President Obama's campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's house and police stations with "incendiary devices," according to court documents....Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, International Organizations, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Rahm Emanuel, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Social Media, Chicago
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State lawmaker charged with bribery cruises to primary victory
Tribune reportersA Chicago Democratic lawmaker charged with bribery a week ago won decisively in Tuesday's primary, the first election under a newly drawn map that shook up House and Senate seats from the city to the suburbs. Even before unofficial results rolled in,...Tags: Michael Madigan, Chris Nybo, Politics, Bribery, Crime, Law and Justice
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Charges upgraded to murder in beating, biting of elderly man
Chicago police say an attack on a Bronzeville street has gone from robbery to murder. An elderly man was beaten and bitten - yes, bitten - for the $10 he had in his hand.
Police are looking for a suspect who is well-known in that neighborhood. The 76-...Tags: Theft, Heart Disease
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Judge's 'dry, cold' decision says lawsuit will not block school closings
Tribune reporterA lawsuit filed by local school councils can’t block a Chicago Public Schools plan to close or revamp operations at 17 low-achieving schools, a Cook County judge ruled Friday. CPS officials issued a brief statement lauding Judge Michael B. Hyman&...Tags: Justice System, Chicago, Judges, Cook County, Chicago Public Schools
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Mar 9, 2012
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