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  • Speed camera locations announced as installation gets under way in Chicago
  • Speed cameras are being installed near some schools and parks in Chicago.
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  • Police investigating murder along Safe Passage route
  • Ralph McNeal, 54, was shot on the route designated for children to take to Drake Elementary when the school year starts August 26.
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  • Chicago cop swims to benefit families of fallen officers
  • Nial Funchion's passion for the Catalina Island swim is to raise funds for the Brotherhood for the Fallen.
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  • Match Cups, Tall Ships sail into Chicago
  • Some of the world's best Match Cup racing teams are competing in Chicago off Navy Pier as Tall Ships Chicago gets under way.
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  • Porter Cross was robbed and beaten just over one year ago as he walked to buy a lottery ticket.
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  • Three people, including two teenagers, have been charged with attacking World War II veteran Porter Cross.
  • The World War II veteran who was beaten and robbed in Chicago last month faced two of his alleged attackers in court on Tuesday, but Porter Cross says he isn't angry.
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  • A-Rod suspension for 211 games, others get 50 games
  • Alex Rodriguez was suspended through 2014 and All-Stars Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta and Everth Cabrera were banned 50 games apiece.
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  • Larry Huggins resigns from Metra Board
  • On Friday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Larry Huggins spoke and agreed he would resign from the Metra Board, the mayor's office said.
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  • Old Post Office
  • The Chicago City Council gave the green light to an ambitious plan to turn the Old Post Office into a center for commerce in the city.
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  • A new plan was presented to the city's planning commission Thursday that would transform the old post office building.
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  • The Black United Fund is among 19 vendors hiring new safe passage workers. There's been no shortage of interest.
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  • Old Post Office
  • The Chicago City Council gave the green light to an ambitious plan to turn the Old Post Office into a center for commerce in the city.
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  • A freight train derailed on a bridge deck Wednesday, leading to a several-railcar pile-up in Northbrook.
  • Triple-digit temperatures likely bent a kink into a section of rail and caused an accident in which more than two dozen coal cars flew off the tracks on a northern Illinois overpass and crashed down on a car, killing the couple inside, investigators said.
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  • Sen. Dick Durbin urges police to trace gun origins
  • Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is encouraging law enforcement agencies across the country to use the federal government's resources to crackdown on gun violence.
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  • Pearl Jam
  • Concertgoers are hoping for cooler weather this weekend as many music stars are performing in the Chicago area.
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  • A new plan was presented to the city's planning commission Thursday that would transform the old post office building.
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  • Alex Clifford, the CEO of metropolitan rail agency Metra since 2011, is leaving his job.
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  • The NHL's coveted Stanley Cup has a lot of history, as well as public accessibility.
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  • A bipartisan committee of Illinois lawmakers met Thursday in attempt to find a solution to the state's pension problems.
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  • What happens when students from closing Chicago public schools get into class in the fall with students at their new schools?
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  • It was an emotional last day of school for at Yale Elementary on Chicago's South Side, one of the 49 CPS schools closing for good.
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  • Smartphone users may not be so smart when they pay for their data plans.
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  • ABC7's Paul Meincke takes a look at one elementary school in Englewood where almost half the teachers are losing their jobs.
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  • The CTA is looking for people interested in working on the major Red Line construction project. Applicants don't need to have experience in the construction field.
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  • A young man left paralyzed by another teen's bullet will graduate from high school on June 15, and next fall, he's planning on college.
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  • ABC 7's Paul Meincke has some tips to help you cheer on the Hawks if you're not a tried-and-true hockey fan.
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  • The Chicago Sun-Times has laid off its full-time photography staff. About 20 employees were informed that they were being let go Thursday morning.
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  • A veteran with a long military history was the grand marshal of Norwood Park's Memorial Day parade.
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  • The Illinois House has approved a plan to allow qualified gun owners to carry their weapons in public.
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  • How much money will actually be saved by the CPS school closings? ABC7's Paul Meincke visited one school that was closed to find out just how much revenue these closings might generate.
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  • The reality is that no school is tornado-proof, but schools can be built stronger. That has been the practice for a generation in Plainfield.
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  • It is no secret that one of the major attractions at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry is a World War II German submarine.
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  • It's called the Rapid Transit, but on sections of the CTA Red Line, it's ceased being so for some time.
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  • He still has not been identified but he has not been forgotten.
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  • Anthony Collaro says his baseball coach at Concordia University promised to talk him up to big league scouts in exchange for sexual favors.
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  • Did you know that Chicago museums can't display firearms?
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  • With the deadline for Illinois lawmakers to pass a concealed-carry measure fast approaching, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart and others are making plans in case the deadline passes without action by the General Assembly.
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  • The deadline for Illinois state lawmakers to pass a concealed carry law is just a month away. ABC 7's Paul Meincke visits the last state to put such a law into effect - Wisconsin.
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  • CTA riders have suffered through delays and route changes as work on the Wells Street Bridge continues. Crews may be finished with the job sooner than expected.
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  • Jurors found Theresa Neubauer guilty of lying to authorities about drawing water from a polluted well in Crestwood.
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  • It will be three years next month since the murder of police officer and Iraq war veteran Tom Wortham IV - shot to death in front of his parents' home by a group of men trying to steal his motorcycle.
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  • If you're heading to the Leighton Criminal Court building at 26th Street and California in Chicago, you might want to leave your cell phone at home as a ban on all electronic devices is now in effect.
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  • Prince Watson pleaded guilty to the 2011 murder of Sally Katona-King, who was pushed to her death at a CTA train station after a robbery.
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  • There was major development Tuesday in the fight over the state's controversial eavesdropping law.
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  • U.S. Senator Mark Kirk talked about his efforts to reach across the aisle to push for tougher gun laws in an exclusive with ABC7's Paul Meincke.
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  • A majority of American cities allow mass transit riders to carry weapons, but the issue has raised concern with CTA officials.
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  • Thirty years ago, Chicago Police Officer Larry Vincent was killed on the job. Tuesday, his son graduated from the police academy.
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  • An effort is under way to make sure Chicago Public Schools students who will change schools next year because of closings will have a safe route to and from school each day.
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  • The Chicago Public School closings are causing tension in some neighborhoods, and parents and students at one school took their battle over the changes to the streets Friday.
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  • ABC7's Paul Meincke reports that one Chicago alderman wants to expand the city's gun registry.
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