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CTA to sell naming rights, sponsorships
WGN NewsStadiums do it, so why not train stations? The CTA is getting ready to sell naming rights and sponsorships. The CTA is offering businesses an opportunity to get as rail station named after them. It's the latest move to generate more revenue from non-...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority
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CTA offers naming rights to 11 stations
Tribune reporterThe CTA today put out a pitch to sell businesses naming rights and sponsorships to 11 rail stations, mostly on the North Side and downtown as well as at both Chicago airports. The stations are Addison, Belmont, Fullerton, North/Clybourn, Chicago, Grand/...Tags: Advertising, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Public Schools, Companies and Corporations, Apple Inc.
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Boy band One Direction hits Chicago-area mall for book signing
Midway through One Direction’s interview with “Good Morning America” Saturday outside Barnes & Noble in Old Orchard Center mall in Skokie, interviewer Cameron Mathison stopped the conversation and politely asked the 1,500 or so fans in...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Nickelodeon (tv network), Wiz Khalifa
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Rain at last -- but more heat's on way
Chicagoland hadn't had much rain so far in June, but that changed Saturday, especially if you live in the southern part of the region. It was bad enough in Kankakee County that the local office of the National Weather Service issued a flood warning after...
Tags: Plainfield (Will, Illinois), Weather Warnings, Woodstock (McHenry, Illinois), Weather, Chicago Weather
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Weather alters flying plans
Weather always will be the nemesis of flyers. We are trained to handle most any malfunction in the cockpit and types of weather, but there are times when the mouth gets dry, the voice climbs octaves and you second guess yourself. Thunderstorms are the...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Weather, Air Transportation Delays, Snow Storms, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Man charged with trying to carry loaded gun onto a plane at Midway
Tribune reporterA Chicago man was arrested at Midway Airport on Saturday morning after an X-ray scan of his luggage showed he was carrying a loaded handgun in his laptop bag, prosecutors said. Willie T. Thomas said he forgot the chrome semiautomatic .25-caliber...Tags: Justice System, Judges, Chicago, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers
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Snow cripples commute, cancels flights and moves on
With last winter's blizzard still fresh in their minds, Chicago officials detoured all CTA buses off Lake Shore Drive as a snowstorm hunkered down over the area, crippling the evening commute and grounding more than 800 flights.
The storm began...Tags: Metra, Tom Skilling, Beecher, Downers Grove, Air Transportation Delays
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Ask Tom why: What is the difference between official weather records and unofficial weather records?
Dear Tom, You often refer to official weather records and unofficial weather records. What is the difference? —Kevin Davis Dear Kevin, Official weather observations refer to the weather data that are used to assemble a city's climatological...Tags: O'Hare International Airport, Weather, Chicago Weather, University of Chicago, Midway Airport
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Senior Travel: Which airport is 'best?'
If you're heading to Buffalo, do you really care if Albuquerque has a "better" airport? That's the big problem I have with those "best airport" surveys you see so often -- they seem to imply that you can choose airports as easily as you choose airlines....Tags: U.S. Airways, Oakland (Orange, Florida), Air Transportation Delays, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Manhattan (New York City)
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Airline baggage handler charged in federal drug probe
Tribune reporterA federal drug task force investigating the trafficking of wholesale quantities of liquid PCP into Chicago on commercial airlines has arrested a Southwest Airlines baggage handler who worked at Midway Airport. Reginald Jackson was ordered held in custody...Tags: Career and Workplace, Southwest Airlines Co., Personal Income, Drug Trafficking, PCP
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When snow moves out, deep cold moves in
The worst snow this season hit the area about 10:30 p.m., and accumulations of between 3 and 5 inches have been reported across the region, weather officials said.
About 4.7 inches of snow accumulated near Midway Airport as of 8:40 p.m., said Jamie...Tags: Metra, Traffic, Ravenswood, Air and Space Accidents, Air Transportation Delays
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Storm warning canceled early, but many commuters still late
The winter storm warning for the Chicago area was canceled about six hours ahead of schedule today as snowfall greatly decreased in intensity -- but the morning commute was still slowed by icy roads and blowing snow that caused spin-outs on almost every...Tags: Metra, Transportation Accidents, Entertainment Events, Air and Space Accidents, Woodstock Festival (1969)
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