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  • Deerfield issues boil order over contaminated water
  • The Village of Deerfield says the local water supply has been contaminated with fecal bacteria.
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  • Now to some fun events for the whole family happening Sunday.
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  • Lincoln Mall store owners told to close
  • ''Honestly, I don't believe they'll close it. How can they?'' asks Shareese Tovar, whose family built a business at the now-closing Lincoln Mall in Matteson, Ill.
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  • Lincoln Mall store owners told to close
  • ''Honestly, I don't believe they'll close it. How can they?'' asks Shareese Tovar.
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  • Good Samaritan helped save child from attempted abduction
  • A customer sprang to action after a 12-year-old girl said a man attempted to lure her to his vehicle near a convenience store.
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  • A-Rod, Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta get suspensions
  • Defiant till the end, Alex Rodriguez is intent on evading baseball's most sweeping punishment since the Black Sox scandal.
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  • Now to a few fun events for the entire family happening Sunday.
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  • Northerly Island offers nature in the city
  • Some city kids are enjoying activities not normally offered in the center of a major city at a summer camp on Northerly Island.
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  • Northerly Island offers nature in the city
  • Some city kids are enjoying activities not normally offered in the center of a major city at a summer camp on Northerly Island.
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  • Cook County inmates serving time by raising chickens
  • Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has pioneered unusual programs for non-violent inmates that he says he thinks will make them less likely to return.
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  • Cook County inmates serving time by raising chickens
  • Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has pioneered unusual programs for non-violent inmates that he says he thinks will make them less likely to return.
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  • Metra scandal leads to new calls for chairman to resign
  • Brad O'Halloran may have been inappropriately collecting paychecks from two government agencies.
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  • Madigan, Cullerton file lawsuit over lawmaker paychecks
  • Leaders of the Illinois House and Senate sued Gov. Pat Quinn on Tuesday over what they called a "purely political and unconstitutional" move to block lawmaker paychecks because of inaction on the state's nearly $100 billion pension crisis.
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  • Madigan, Cullerton file lawsuit over halted pay
  • Leaders of the Illinois House and Senate sued Gov. Pat Quinn on Tuesday over what they called a "purely political and unconstitutional" move to block lawmaker paychecks because of inaction on the state's nearly $100 billion pension crisis.
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  • Governor Pat Quinn is standing firm on his promise not to pay legislators until the state pension crisis is resolved.
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  • A small Illinois airport has a big visitor for the next two days.
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  • Almost two years after a Johnsburg man found $150,000 in his garden, a judge decided who will get the cash.
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  • Bradford Burner risked his life to catch the suspect in a stabbing at a Michigan Ave hotel. But he says he's no hero.
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  • The Asiana Airlines crash brings back haunting memories for a Winnetka man who survived the 1989 Sioux City plane crash.
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  • Now to some fun events for the whole family happening Sunday.
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  • Several violent incidents took place during and after Chicago's Pride Parade this past weekend and a group of parade participants say the man driving their float attacked them while shouting a slur about their sexual orientation.
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  • A Chicago-bound flight was diverted to Kansas City due to a disruptive passenger who also diverted a flight earlier on Monday.
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  • A flight from Albuquerque to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport was forced to make an emergency landing in Kansas City due to a disruptive passenger who attempted to exit the aircraft during the flight.
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  • Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Junior and his wife, former Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson sentencing date has been postponed to August 14.
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  • ABC7 has found that despite multiple deaths and nearly 200 arrests every year statewide, boats and booze continue to mix.
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  • The judge has postponed the sentencing of former Congressman Jesse Jackson Junior and his wife, former Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson.
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  • Governor Pat Quinn says Illinois loses $17 million every day by not fixing the pension crisis. ABC7 puts that number in context.
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  • Swimmers have been ordered to stay out of Lake Michigan in parts of northwest Indiana.
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  • Cook County prosecutors formally dropped charges Monday against a Chicago mother who was convicted of murdering her 4-year-old son.
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  • Hillary Clinton chose the Chicago conference for her first public speech since she left the secretary of state job in February.
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  • Spend an hour in Cook County bond court and you'll find yourself shaking your head in disbelief. Repeatedly.
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  • The Obama administration and some congressional leaders are defending the government's practice of collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers.
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  • There's always a human cost to violent crime. But whether it's a gunshot, a stabbing or other violence, there is also a very real financial cost of crime.
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  • A northwest suburban Boy Scout troop is looking for a new place to meet after a church cut ties with them over the new policy.
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  • The President returned to his Kenwood home Wednesday night after attending two democratic fundraisers downtown.
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  • The 87-year-old woman who took on real estate and media mogul Donald Trump in Chicago lost her civil suit.
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  • Schaumburg Village Trustee Frank Kozak and his wife, Char, are recovering after they were injured in the Oklahoma tornado.
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  • 80,000 riders who use the south end of the Red Line will seek route alternatives during next week's shutdown.
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  • Dashamone McCarty, 19,
  • Dashamone McCarty, 19, was shot and killed in Maywood one week after returning home from Dakota College.
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  • Police say they are waiting on the body's identity from the medical examiner, expected this morning.
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  • A jury has found double murder suspect Anthony Triplett guilty in the murder of 23-year-old Urszula Sakowska.
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  • Former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley waves
  • Two years ago this week, former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley left City Hall.
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  • Yueh-Hsun Gary Tsai appeared in federal court in Chicago on Monday, May 6, 2013.
  • A north suburban Glenview man is charged in connection with conspiring to export banned materials to North Korea.
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  • Nearly 1,000 people turned out for a big May Day march in downtown Chicago calling for workers' rights and the rights of immigrants.
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  • Dozens of sheep are roaming in southwest suburban Cook County, and thats not going over well in unincorporated Lemont.
  • Police calls. Trespassing claims. Now a lawsuit. They're all over a herd of sheep grazing in an unincorporated area of southwest suburban Lemont.
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  • Dozens of sheep are roaming in southwest suburban Cook County, and thats not going over well in unincorporated Lemont.
  • Dozens of sheep are roaming southwest suburban Cook County in unincorporated Lemont, and neighbors are suing the man responsible.
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  • After a daring December jail break two bank robbery suspects scaled down the side of a high-rise lockup, using bed sheets as their rope and information being learned now has many asking if it could have been prevented and if security is being compromised.
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  • Warning signs may have been missed or ignored in the days leading up to a prison break from a federal lock-up downtown.
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  • Some people have had to deal with severe flooding multiple times over the years, and there have been lessons learned from those who have lived through it.
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  • History is being made at the University of Illinois campus in Urbana-Champaign.
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