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A massive storm system that started in the Upper Midwest and plowed across the country was hitting the Mid-Atlantic Thursday.
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Chicago is drawing heat for a provocative campaign against teen pregnancy.
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These moms-to-be are being monitored for their body temperature -- and blubber thickness.
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A limousine driver who was allegedly drunk when he drove more than 20 suburban Chicago teenagers to a prom says he wasn't intoxicated.
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Jack McInerney scored his league-leading seventh goal of the season Saturday and Zac MacMath made six saves to lead the Philadelphia Union to a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Fire.
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Authorities are investigating the slayings of five people whose bodies were found in a house in the tiny Scott County community of Manchester. A suspect is in custody.
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Communities along the Mississippi River and other rain-engorged waterways are waging feverish bids to hold back floodwaters that may soon approach record levels.
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A Chicago woman is trying to get out of paying a parking fine that has snowballed to more than $100,000.
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One person died and dozens of elementary school children were taken to hospitals Friday after a school bus crash in northern Illinois left two cars mangled and the bus on its side.
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An Illinois man accused of stealing 21 tons of Wisconsin cheese has been arrested in New Jersey.
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Authorities say a fire has engulfed a mobile home in western Illinois, killing at least four people.
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Authorities say four high school students were killed when their car skidded off a bridge into an icy creek in rural northern Illinois.
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A late winter storm packing up to 10 inches of snow sent authorities in weather-hardened Chicago into action Tuesday.
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An official says the eight passengers aboard a small aircraft with landing gear troubles walked off the plane after it landed safely at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
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A slow-moving storm that has paralyzed parts of the nation's midsection for days with heavy, wet snow that strained power lines, clogged roadways and delayed hundreds of flights, dumped at least 6 inches of snow on western Michigan early Wednesday as it churned eastward.
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Blizzard conditions slammed parts of the central Plains Monday, forcing the closure of highways in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles and sending public works crews scrambling for salt and sand anew just days after a massive storm blanketed the region with snow.
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Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife agreed Friday to plead guilty to federal charges.
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Two guards and a chaplain were injured Tuesday in an Illinois prison attack that union officials said involved up to 15 inmates, the latest in a series of violent incidents at the lockup and others in the state.
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A convicted murderer from Indiana who was mistakenly released following a Chicago court appearance was back in custody Saturday after authorities tracked him down about 60 miles away.
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Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan was released from federal prison and into a Chicago halfway house Wednesday after serving more than five years for corruption.
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A humble 5-cent coin with a storied past is headed to auction and bidding expected to top $2 million a century after it was mysteriously minted.
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All Chicago firefighters have left the scene of Tuesday night's warehouse fire on the city's South Side.
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Chicago firefighters were still trying to put out hot spots Wednesday at a huge warehouse fire in the city's Bridgeport section.
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Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says the city has logged its 500th homicide of the year.
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One of the two bank robbers who made a daring escape from a high-rise federal jail in Chicago has been arrested after days on the run, an FBI spokeswoman said Friday.
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Travelers facing canceled flights and closed roads were hoping to finally head to their holiday destinations.
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The first widespread snowstorm of the season plodded across the Midwest on Thursday, as whiteout conditions sent drivers sliding over slick roads and some travelers were forced to scramble for alternate ways to get to their holiday destinations.
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A manhunt for two bank robbers who used a makeshift rope to pull off a daring escape from a high-rise Chicago lockup pushed into a second day Wednesday, with authorities offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the men's apprehension.
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Two inmates who escaped downtown Chicago's high-rise federal jail by climbing down a rope may have fled hours before police swarmed the area.
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Two bank robbers pulled off a daring escape from downtown Chicago's high-rise jail Tuesday by apparently scaling down about 20 stories using a makeshift rope tied to the bars in a cell window.
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Nearly two dozen fraternity members at Northern Illinois University were charged Monday with hazing-related counts after a freshman was found dead at their fraternity house following a night of drinking.
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First, there was "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Now, there's "Mailers of the Lost Package."
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University of Chicago officials are puzzled by a mystery piece of mail seemingly linked to the Indiana Jones movie series.
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Hospital officials say a pilot and two nurses were killed when a medical helicopter crashed in a field while traveling between two northern Illinois hospitals.
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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., a once-rising political star who has been on a months-long mysterious medical leave for bipolar disorder while facing separate federal investigations, has resigned from Congress, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday.
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A 9-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of a toddler in a St. Louis suburb.
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The longtime bookkeeper accused of embezzling more than $50 million from a small city in Illinois to fund a lavish lifestyle that included a nationally known horse-breeding operation has pleaded guilty.
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A Chicago man accused of binding his 22-month-old daughter with tape and posting a picture on Facebook with a caption that read, "This is wut happens wen my baby hits me back" has been convicted of battery charges.
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A suburban Chicago woman stabbed her 7-year-old son 100 times because she was angry with her husband and a 5-year-old girl about 50 times because she witnessed the attack, as both children prayed and begged for their lives, prosecutors said Thursday.
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U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. will head back to the Mayo Clinic for a checkup "soon," his father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, said Sunday.
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Chicagoans are getting their first look at a baby, of the furry variety.
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Former Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon is suffering from early-stage dementia, and he says if he could do it over, he wouldn't play football.
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Click play to watch the report from Action News at noon
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Hundreds of thousands of Chicago public school students are returning to class after teachers ended their seven-day strike.
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The city's teachers agreed Tuesday to return to the classroom after more than a week on the picket lines.
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Click play to watch the report from Action News at noon
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