Daley Brings Handgun Fight To Springfield (Springfield, IL) -- As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether to overturn Chicago's handgun ban, Mayor Richard Daley renewed his fight against guns in Springfield yesterday. Daley was joined by several parents who have lost children to gun violence ...Read More
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All-Black, All-Male Charter School Attains 100-Percent College Acceptance (Chicago, IL) -- A charter school in one of Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods reached an amazing milestone on Friday. That's the day the Urban Prep Academy for Young Men announced that all 107 members of its very first senior class were headed to college ...Read More
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Teen Dies, Two Others Hurt In Wreck (Joliet, IL) -- A teenage girl died and two others were hurt after the car they were in apparently ran through a stop sign and was hit by a pickup truck. The accident happened last night around 5:00 p ...Read More
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Giannoulias Family Could Collect $15-Million From Failing Bank (Chicago, IL) -- U.S. Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias and his family will walk away from their failing bank with as much as 15-million dollars in federal funds. Crain's "Chicago Business" reports that Broadway Bank's 75-million-dollar loss last year generated tax refunds worth between 12-million and 15-million dollars to the Giannoulias family ...Read More
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Police Searching For Man Wanted On Sex Crimes (Chicago, IL) -- Chicago Police are looking for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted two teenage girls and exposed himself to a third girl. Police say a 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted on March 4th in the 82-hundred block of South Sacramento Boulevard ...Read More
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Man Posing As Fire Lieutenant Robs A Bar (Chicago, IL) -- A man claiming to be Chicago Fire Department lieutenant robbed a bar early this morning in Old Town. Police say a call was received from the Burton Place Inc. bar on the 14-hundred block of North Wells Street at 2:55 this morning...Read More
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