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  • Showers early on Thursday.
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  • Zachary Fardon was confirmed by the Senate to be the next United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
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iteam, chuck goudie
  • A rare whale that has a dolphin-shaped head and saber-like teeth has been found dead on Los Angeles' Venice Beach, even though it prefers frigid subarctic waters.
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  • medical marijuana
  • Washington adopted rules Wednesday for the recreational sale of marijuana, creating what advocates hope will be a template for the drug's legalization around the world.
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  • lincoln park shooting, depaul shooting, shooting depaul, man shot walgreens
  • Police say a man was found shot in the chest near the 1500-block of West Fullerton on Wednesday night.
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  • Ten years ago on Thursday, a fire in the Cook County Administration Building in the Loop took six lives and changed many others.
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  • Deadly Loop high-rise fire, 10 years later
  • Ten years ago on Thursday, a fire in the Cook County Administration Building in the Loop took six lives and changed many others.
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  • Investigators say they hope video footage will reveal more information about the circumstances surrounding the death of a northeastern Indiana man in a wheelchair struck by a train at a railroad crossing
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  • A northwest Missouri prosecutor said Wednesday that he's asking for a special prosecutor to look at the case of a 14-year-old girl who says she was plied with alcohol and raped by a 17-year-old acquaintance.
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  • McShane family arrives in Chicago for Bucktown beating trial
  • A woman who was beaten with a baseball bat in Bucktown in 2010 testified in court Wednesday.
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  • Victim, victims mother testify at Bucktown beating trial
  • A woman who was beaten with a baseball bat in Bucktown in 2010 testified in court Wednesday.
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  • This is the first time the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety put moderately priced cars to through its rigid, frontal impact tests.
  • To make the world safer for pets, Lindsey Wolko had to design an indestructible dog.
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  • Juanita Jordan
  • A fundraiser was held Wednesday night for a Chicago school put in the national spotlight four years ago with the videotaped beating death of student Derrion Albert.
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  • Congress passed a deal to avert a threatened default and reopen the government, clearing the measure for the President's signature.
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  • Congress passed a deal to avert a threatened default and reopen the government, clearing the measure for the President's signature.
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  • Chicago police say two men have been shot and killed on the citys Far South Side near 105th and Lafayette in the Fernwood community.
  • Chicago police say two men have been shot and killed on the city's Far South Side near 105th and Lafayette in the Fernwood community.
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  • Police have issued alerts for several people missing from the Chicago area.
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  • A baggage handler arrested after dry ice bombs exploded at Los Angeles International Airport planted the devices as a prank, police said Wednesday.
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  • Mark Cuban won a years-long fight with the federal government Wednesday as jurors decided that the billionaire basketball team owner did not commit insider-trading when he sold his stake in an Internet company in 2004.
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  • TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau headed back to jail
  • Chicago TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau will be heading back to jail, but with an interesting twist.
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  • TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau headed back to jail
  • Chicago TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau will be heading back to jail, but with an interesting twist.
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  • Police are looking for a woman with a medical condition missing since Saturday in northwest suburban Schaumburg.
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  • Boy, 12, brings gun to school in Berkeley
  • A 12-year old boy is charged with unlawful use of a weapon on school grounds after accidentally firing a gun inside a school in west suburban Berkeley.
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  • Boy, 12, brings gun to school in Berkeley
  • A 12-year old boy is charged with unlawful use of a weapon on school grounds after accidentally firing a gun inside a school in west suburban Berkeley.
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  • Victim, victims mom testify at bat attack trial
  • Opening statements wrapped up 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 out.
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  • 2 dead in Fernwood shooting
  • Chicago police say two men have been shot and killed on the city's Far South Side near 105th and Lafayette in the Fernwood community.
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  • A Chicago Streets and Sanitation semi-truck flipped in the S-Curve on Lake Shore Drive, bringing traffic to a standstill for hours. The wreck was cleared and lanes were reopened by 6 p.m.
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  • A Chicago Streets and Sanitation semi-truck flipped in the S-Curve on Lake Shore Drive, bringing traffic to a standstill for hours. The wreck was cleared and lanes were reopened by 6 p.m.
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chicago news
  • 2 garbage truck crash victims IDd
  • Two of the three people killed in a fiery crash involving a Skokie garbage truck in north suburban Glenview were identified.
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local, sarah schulte
  • Stony Island Avenue name debate continues
  • Mayor Emanuel and community members commented Wednesday about Emanuel's decision to table the plan that would have renamed Stony Island Avenue.
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politics