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Gov. Pat Quinn on pension mess: ‘Everything is on the table’
Gov. Pat Quinn took his case for a budgetary crash diet directly to state lawmakers Wednesday, pushing a grim assortment of prison closures and spending cuts in a spending plan that he said was built around “hard realities.”
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Fewer restaurants interested in shorter Taste of Chicago
Chicago restaurants are not exactly chomping at the bit to participate in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to shrink and revamp the Taste of Chicago. Only 40 restaurants applied to participate for the five-day festival, prompting the city to extend Tuesday’s deadline until Friday.
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How Girl Scouts helped her ‘become person I am’
On Mar. 12, 1912, widowed socialite Juliette Gordon Low founded the American Girl Guides — later the Girl Scouts — with 18 girls in Savannah, Ga. Its mission: Building self-reliance and citizenship. In 1917, the first African-American troop was started. The Girl Scouts stayed segregated …Read More
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Substitute teacher teacher fired in duct-taping incident
A veteran Indian Prairie School District 204 substitute teacher was fired after the instructor allegedly ordered a student at Graham Elementary School in Naperville to bind his own wrists together with duct tape. The incident happened Thursday and involved a 10-year-old boy enrolled at the …Read More
Metro
Field Museum exhibit puts Genghis Khan’s modern-day progeny in the millions
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Fewer restaurants interested in shorter Taste of Chicago
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Lawyer: Man rammed ex-wife’s car, shot her six times in self defense
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Man charged with shooting cop in hand held without bail
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Gov. Pat Quinn on pension mess: ‘Everything is on the table’
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Judge: Park Ridge man’s widow can sue over fatal bear mauling
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Daley pal lands new city contract
Nation
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Man’s childhood comic collection fetches $3.5 million
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5 killed in Korean spa murder-suicide in Georgia
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Arkansas man charged with murder of teen he met online
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Gay marriage on hold in California as foes seek court review
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11 children removed from Texas home in abuse case
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Episcopal priests offer ‘Ashes to Go’ as Lent begins
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Stephen Colbert to release children’s book about a flag pole
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Mardi Gras takes over New Orleans
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Georgia commuter bus driver stabbed with pen
Crime
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Lawyer: Man rammed ex-wife’s car, shot her six times in self defense
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Man charged with shooting cop in hand held without bail
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$20k, pills stolen during teen party with parents out of town
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Violent sex offender charged in flower shop robbery, stabbing
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Facing discipline, morgue worker allegedly threatens to get a gun
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South Side gang ‘wannabe’ gets 75 years for murder of 10-year-old girl caught in crossfire
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Man pleads guilty to 2010 fatal hit-and-run accident in Aurora
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Police cite funeral home with failing to properly care for human remains
Politics
Rahm Emanuel: Tammy Duckworth is my pick in Dem primary
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Judy Biggert will have a GOP opponent after all
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Gov. Pat Quinn on pension mess: ‘Everything is on the table’
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Daley pal lands new city contract
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Facing discipline, morgue worker allegedly threatens to get a gun
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State House OKs property tax cap for suburban homeowners
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Gov. Pat Quinn: Close super-max downstate Tamms prison
City Hall
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Fewer restaurants interested in shorter Taste of Chicago
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Daley pal lands new city contract
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Emanuel: New Malcolm X College will put City Colleges ‘back on the playing field’
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Chicago Police horses will also get riot gear for NATO/G-8 summits
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From high school dropout to top of the Fire Department ladder
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Candidate declares she is only ‘legit’ Madigan opponent
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Parents occupy school, demand to talk with Rahm
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Court: Chicago teachers don’t have rehire rights
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Activists: City wrong for turning woman over to immigration agents
World
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Venezuela’s Chavez says his cancer is likely back
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Tony Blair’s wife sues over Murdoch phone hacking
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Divers find 8 more bodies in wrecked Italian cruise ship
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Nepalese man, 72, claims to be world’s shortest
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American war reporter Marie Colvin killed in Syria
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Argentine train slams into station, killing 49
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7 killed in Afghan protests over Quran burning
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Revelers celebrate Carnival in Rio de Janero
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Strauss-Kahn questioned in hotel prostitution case









