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  • 2 dead in Calumet Park shooting, person of interest in custody
  • A double murder early Saturday morning has claimed the life of a man and a young woman after neighbors say they heard shots around 3 a.m. in south suburban Calumet Park.
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  • 2 dead in Calumet Park shooting, person of interest in custody
  • A double murder early Saturday morning has claimed the life of a man and a young woman after neighbors say they heard shots around 3 a.m. in south suburban Calumet Park.
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  • Boy, 14, drowns at McKinley Park District pool
  • A man who says he first spotted a 14-year-old boy and pulled him from a Chicago Park District pool questions the response by the lifeguard on duty. The boy later died at a local hospital.
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  • CPS teacher accused of having sex with student in classroom
  • Bridgette Miller is a teacher at Chicago Vocational Career Academy who is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old student.
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  • Boy, 14, drowns at McKinley Park District pool
  • A man who says he first spotted a 14-year-old boy and pulled him from a Chicago Park District pool questions the response by the lifeguard on duty. The boy later died at a local hospital.
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  • Car plows into Binnys liquor store
  • Surveillance video reveals a new perspective of the impact inside the north suburban store when a car crashed into a Binny?s liquor store in Highland Park.
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  • Boy pinned by minivan at school recovering at home
  • Police say the 67-year-old driver hit the gas instead of the brake, sending the vehicle speeding in reverse.
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  • Boy pinned by minivan at school recovering at home
  • A minivan crashed into a Far north suburban middle school, injuring a child who was pinned beneath its wheel.
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  • Lake Shore Drive improvement meetings begin
  • For the first time, Chicago residents have a chance to voice their opinions on how to improve the north end of Lake Shore Drive Tuesday.
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  • Lolalapalooza rocks Grant Park a second day
  • Day two of Chicago's Lollapalooza music festival has wrapped up at Grant Park, but it's not the only fun people had near Chicago's lakefront Saturday night.
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  • Lolalapalooza rocks Grant Park a second day
  • Day two of Chicago's Lollapalooza music festival has wrapped up at Grant Park, but it's not the only fun people had near Chicago?s lakefront Saturday night.
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  • A marijuana leaf is seen in this file image. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
  • Governor Pat Quinn is to sign a bill Thursday that would make medical marijuana legal in Illinois.
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  • Illinois medical marijuana to be legalized
  • Governor Pat Quinn is getting ready to sign a bill that would make medical marijuana legal in Illinois.
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  • Illinois medical marijuana to be legalized by Quinn signing
  • After months of keeping his decision-making close to the vest, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is set to sign legislation Thursday that will make the state the 20th in the nation to legalize marijuana for medical use.
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  • Woman seriously hurt when water tank falls
  • A woman who critically injured by debris when a huge water tank fell is expected to survive, friends say.
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  • Water tank falls from Brewster Bldg
  • ''I thought she was dead,'' neighbor says of victim critically injured by falling water tank.
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  • A newspaper vendor was shot to death near a Gary, Ind., gas station. Police say the case is domestic, and they have identified the alleged shooter.
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  • Newspaper vendor fatally shot in Gary, Ind.
  • Gary, Ind., police say the fatal shooting of a newspaper vendor is domestic, and they have identified the alleged shooter.
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  • Concerns about possible tampering with female drivers tires
  • Two women claim they returned to their car from stores to find low air in their tires. Both say a man then tried to offer them help.
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  • Concerns about possible tampering with female drivers tires
  • Two women claim they returned to their car from stores to find low air in their tires. Both say a man then tried to offer them help.
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  • In Will County, police say the number of heroin deaths are on the rise and have surpassed the number of those killed by traffic accidents.
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  • Rod Blagojevich
  • Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is appealing his conviction on corruption charges, or, at least, asking for a reduced prison sentence.
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  • Several residents of a home that was the first of four that caught fire in an extra-alarm blaze in the South Side Canaryville neighborhood Saturday morning were able to get out safely due to the efforts of a boy who noticed the fire and ran through the home alerting the residents, fire officials said.
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  • A Pequods Pizza waitress was on the receiving end of a $500 tip as Seth Collins honored his brother Aarons last wish.
  • A Lincoln Park waitress was on the receiving end of a $500 tip as a Kentucky man honored his brother Aaron's last wish.
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  • With new bike lanes and a bicycle-sharing program, more cyclists are taking to Chicago streets, but how safe is it?
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  • Jennifer Anton was hailed as a hero when she saved a child during an accident on the North Side in May.
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  • The scaled-back Taste of Chicago wraps up Sunday, and the question many people are asking is whether the changes in the festival have made the experience more enjoyable or less.
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  • A 7-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot while playing in a park. The shooting is just the latest what's been a violent and deadly start to the long holiday weekend in Chicago.
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  • A 17-year-old has died after he was shot by police on the South Side near 56th and State.
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  • Music legend Prince is set to play at the wedding reception Saturday night for newlyweds George Lucas and Mellody Hobson.
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  • From early on, Blackhawks fans had plenty to cheer about at the United Center and in front of TV sets all over town.
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  • A parade to honor the Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks will be held on Friday, according to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office.
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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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