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  • University of Chicago college student Austin Hudson-LaPore was last seen Wednesday. His family is asking anyone who may have information to please call police.
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  • Residents say police turned a residential street near the United Center into a no parking zone for the next two weeks.
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  • In the friendly wager, the governor of the losing team will volunteer at the other's food bank of choice.
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  • Gov. Pat Quinn called a special session after Moody's became the second investors service to downgrade the state's credit rating.
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  • The victim is being treated at Comer Children's Hospital.
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  • A CPS school security guard has been suspended while investigators look into an incident captured by cell phone video.
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  • After nearly a decade of walking the picket line, striking workers at Chicago's Congress Hotel offered to return to their jobs.
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  • Fire tore through a Mexican grocery store in west suburban Stone Park, and officials are calling it a total loss for the owners.
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  • The organizers of a dance music festival taking place in Joliet over Memorial Day weekend are promising to turn down the volume after Friday night's show drew a lot of complaints.
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  • The mother of a student allegedly pushed down the stairs says the video of the incident made her break down in tears.
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  • Many people are wondering what can be done to protect yourself from a tornado like the one that leveled Moore, Oklahoma. Using reinforcement in building construction is one solution.
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  • James Malecek, 19, pleaded not guilty in the beating death of Kevin Kennelly, 17, who died during a fight on a Northwest Indiana beach over the Fourth of July weekend.
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  • A game between Walter Payton and Brooks high schools on Saturday was bigger than a baseball.
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  • Two men are charged with attempted bank robbery after exchanging fire with FBI agents at the Associated Bank in Richmond, Ill.
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  • Columbia College is mourning the loss of a student killed in drive-by shooting. Kevin Ambrose, 19, was an artist and poet, according to his friends.
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  • Nearly 140 women who were denied jobs as Chicago firefighters will be able to reapply Monday after they reached a tentative settlement with the city in a federal class-action lawsuit.
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  • As Penny Pritzker stood in the rose garden, Elizabeth Grabill thought of her late father and the $100,000 he lost.
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  • The City of Chicago is offering non-profit organizations a break on their water bills based on the size of their assets. However, a group of religious leaders want water to be free -- as it was decades-- for all non-profits.
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  • There were dramatic 911 calls made when flood waters were threatening lives.
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  • Frank Buschauer is charged with drowning his wife in the bathtub of their South Barrington home.
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  • About 75 miles southwest of Chicago, much of Marseilles, Illinois, resembles a scrapyard: piles of debris are taller than people and homes are literally a shell of their former selves.
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  • The Fox River reached record levels overnight Saturday at the McHenry Dam, according to officials.
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  • As the United States Senate prepares to consider proposed gun legislation a rally for reform was held Saturday night in Chicago.
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  • Joseph Massenburg
  • Friends and family are mourning the death of Joseph Massenburg, an 18-year-old AmeriCorps volunteer who was gunned down in New Orleans last week.
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  • New charges were filed in the death of a 72-year-old man. His wife is accused, and police say she got her grandson to pull the trigger.
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  • Video filmed by witnesses has surfaced of a SUV driving the wrong way before it got into an accident that killed two people.
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  • The Chicago Public Schools closures will affect students, teachers and the community in a variety of ways.
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  • The first day of spring certainly didn't feel like spring.
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  • A Chicago janitor's life drastically changed Tuesday after he received a lottery check of $1 million.
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  • Students protested outside Lane Tech High School Friday after Chicago Public Schools' CEO decided to pull the graphic novel Persepolis from classrooms.
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  • A suburban woman was struck and killed by a commuter train as her husband watched from a short distance away.
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  • Heroin addiction is a growing problem across Illinois. Law enforcement, doctors and others are trying to confront the problem.
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  • Airline passengers will be allowed to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes beginning April 25th, the Transportation Security Administration announced.
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  • One man died in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 80 near Morris in Grundy County around midnight Friday night.
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  • Chicago police have warned businesses to be on alert for a potential problem on Michigan Avenue Saturday.
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  • A major black market bust of illegal cigarettes is fueling concern that the underground tobacco market will get even worse when the Cook County tax on a pack of cigarettes goes up by $1 Friday.
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  • First Lady Michelle Obama is staying in her Chicago home in the Kenwood neighborhood Wednesday night.
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  • Janay McFarlane
  • Family and friends mourned the loss of Janay McFarlane at the funeral for the teenager who was gunned down last week.
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  • Family and friends mourned the deaths of two women who were found stabbed in a burning home in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood.
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  • Guns are banned on public transportation in the Chicago area, but the National Rifle Association is backing the idea of riders carrying weapons in trains and buses.
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  • The Cook County Sheriff's Office says it has found 51 unprocessed sexual assault kits in the evidence room at the Robbins Police Department in south suburban Chicago.
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  • Two local women, one from Chicago and one from Evanston, experienced the drama on the infamous Carnival Triumph cruise.
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  • Police say hundreds of suburban bank customers are victims of ATM fraud after someone used skimming devices to steal debit card information.
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  • Illinois Governor Pat Quinn called for a minimum wage increase to help working families.
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  • The Rev. Jesse Jackson and other ministers want President Barack Obama to visit Chicago following the murder of Hadiya Pendleton, 15.
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  • A convicted murderer is back behind bars after a series of errors led to him being released from the Cook County Jail.
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  • Hadiya Pendleton
  • Pastors joined with people in the community Friday for a march and vigil to remember Hadiya Pendleton.
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  • For the first time we're hearing from the mother of the teenage student also wounded in the shooting that took the life of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton.
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  • Skokie police are looking for a suspect who attacked a woman and took off with her vehicle in broad daylight.
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  • In an effort to keep the peace around Wrigley Field, the owners of the rooftops around the park are offering the Cubs a compromise.
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