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  • Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced the nomination of Michael R. Merchant to head the Chicago Housing Authority, one day after the previous housing authority chief's resignation was made public.
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  • A couple from Chicago visiting western Michigan to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary helped rescue an Ohio woman in a wheelchair who fell into cold Lake Michigan.
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  • Chicagos first speed camera goes live Monday.
  • Chicago speed cameras are now issuing tickets to drivers who go over the speed limit near Gompers Park on the city's Northwest Side.
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  • McShane family arrives in Chicago for Bucktown beating trial
  • Opening arguments were under way in the trial of a Chicago man accused of using a baseball bat to attack two young women in 2010 as they walked home after a night of dancing.
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  • An exhibit featuring rare Disney memorabilia is opening at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
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  • A small eastern Illinois community is selling off about a dozen lots at $1 each, hoping to convince people to relocate to Vermillion County from Chicago.
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  • Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is backing off on his plan to rename Stony Island Avenue for the late Bishop Arthur Brazier.
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  • The Chicago City Council meets Wednesday about a new proposed ordinance apologizing and giving reparations to victims of Chicago police torture.
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  • Search underway for rescue dog near Kennedy
  • The dog that caused traffic to come to a crawl on the Kennedy has a name: "Hope." And she has a home, in Minnesota.
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  • The city of Chicago is getting an online data dictionary.
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  • Woman sexually abused by police impersonator in Ravenswood
  • Police issued a warning in a North Side area where a woman says she was sexually abused by a man posing as a police officer.
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  • A baby and a 49-year-old woman died after a fire broke out in the 6700-block of South Emerald on the city's South Side.
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  • Chicagos first speed camera goes live Monday.
  • Starting Wednesday, you could be ticketed if you're caught speeding near Gompers Park in the North Side's Mayfair neighborhood.
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  • Models walked the runway in looks created by Chicago designers. They used professionals from fields -- such as culinary and visual artists -- as muses.
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  • The "Take Back Chicago" town meeting was organized by a group called the Grassroots Collaborative.
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  • Joel Spear, 78, is missing from the South Side near 97th and Wallace.
  • Joel Spear, 78, was located on Tuesday night.
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  • Joel Spear, 78, is missing from the South Side near 97th and Wallace.
  • Joel Spear, 78, was last seen earlier in the day on Tuesday. He went missing from the area near the 9700-block of South Wallace.
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  • A dog caused a big traffic jam on the Kennedy Expressway Monday night.
  • It happened near Armitage Avenue in the express lanes, which remained closed as of 9 p.m. Monday night.
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  • Absolut Chicago
  • Absolut Chicago celebrates a city that is grounded in history and tradition, yet constantly looking to the future, the company says.
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  • A man wanted in two sex assaults and home invasions that occurred just hours apart on the city's South Side last week is now in police custody, officials said.
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  • Former Mayor Daley gives tour of Millennium Park for Chicago Ideas Week
  • Millennium Park is a must-see for visitors to Chicago that generates more than $2 billion a year in tourism revenue.
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  • McShane family arrives in Chicago for Bucktown beating trial
  • Jury selection began Tuesday in the case of a brutal baseball bat beating that injured two young women three years ago.
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  • Hispanic Heritage Month: Erie Neighborhood House
  • For the past 143 years, the West Town neighborhood has been home to a number of immigrant populations, from Germans and Ukrainians, to what is now a primarily Latino community.
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  • Chicago fire officials said a fire that led to a partial collapse of a Park Manor building on the city's South Side may have been set.
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  • A group of protesters gathered Tuesday afternoon at Federal Plaza to rally and call for an end to the government shutdown.
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  • The head of the Chicago Housing Authority has resigned after two years.
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  • Police investigating a Monday night shooting on the Northwest Side said they have few promising leads because the "intoxicated" victim told officers that he was too drunk to remember how he was injured.
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  • Federal government workers in the Chicago area, along with labor and community leaders, planned a rally at noon Tuesday to call for an end to the government shut down.
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  • The search is on for a man missing after he failed to board a connecting flight at O'Hare Airport.
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  • Inspirational last man to finish Chicago Marathon
  • Winners do not usually come in last place- but Maickel Melamed's story may change your thinking about that.
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  • Replicas of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria sailed through downtown streets during Chicago's 2013 Columbus Day Parade.
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  • Mayor Rahm Emanuel hopped on a Divvy bike as he took Chicago Ideas Week participants on a tour of the citys Logan Square neighborhood.
  • Mayor Rahm Emanuel hopped on as he took Chicago Ideas Week participants on a tour of the city's Logan Square neighborhood.
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  • Nobel Prize in economics goes to U of Cs Hansen, Fama
  • Two winners of the Nobel Prize in economics work at the University of Chicago.
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  • Jury selection to begin in 2010 Bucktown bat attack
  • Jury selection begins Tuesday in the trial of Heriberto Viramontes who is accused in a brutal 2010 attack on two women in Bucktown.
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  • Police say a UIC student was robbed at gunpoint off campus in the 1400-block of West Lexington.
  • It happened early Sunday morning in the 1400- block of West Lexington.
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  • Two-car crash injures 5 on South Side
  • A two-car crash on Chicago's South Side sent five people to the hospital on Monday morning. Witnesses say police were pursing one of those vehicles.
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  • The price of Chicago Cubs tickets will stay the same for next year.
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  • The South Lake Shore Drive extension is less than two weeks away from opening.
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  • The body of a man was found Monday in the Chicago River on the Southwest Side.
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  • Winter is just around the corner, and that means your heating bill will soon go up.
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  • One male victim is dead and another wounded during shootings a block apart Monday morning in the South Side Chatham neighborhood.
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  • Elizabeth Smart.
  • Chicago Ideas Week brings together hundreds of the world's brightest leaders on a broad spectrum of subjects.
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  • A judge set bail at $250,000 for 30-year-old Jimmie Ortiz, a man charged with trying to rob a person with an axe.
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  • Trial begins Tuesday for Heriberto Viramontes, the Chicago man charged with attacking a young Irish exchange student with a baseball bat.
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  • Some residents around Chicago's O'Hare International Airport who were already concerned about noise levels are worried about the impact of a new runway expected to open this week.
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  • Winner Dennis Kimetto of Kenya finished in 2 hours, 3 minutes, 45 seconds. The first woman to finish was Rita Jeptoo, also of Kenya.
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  • A search is underway for the person who shot a man in a gas station parking lot on the West Side.
  • A search is under way for the person who shot and killed a man in a gas station parking lot on the West Side.
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  • A search is underway for the person who shot a man in a gas station parking lot on the West Side.
  • A search is underway for the person who shot a man in a gas station parking lot on the West Side.
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  • Die-hard music lovers, casual fans and globe-trotting tourists readily embrace Chicago as the home of the blues, spurred in large part by the Great Migration northward of Southern blacks in the early and mid-20th century.
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