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Season Delayed For First Time Ever For Wendella Sightseeing Boats
CHICAGO (CBS) – This year, Wendella Sightseeing Boats is celebrating its 80th season. But for the first time ever, the season is delayed because of our long, icy winter. It became painfully clear about...
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Emanuel Pitches Chicago At SXSW
(CBS) – Mayor Rahm Emanuel never passes up an opportunity to sell Chicago as he made a business trip to Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest festival. CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports...
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More Snow To Stretch Already Thin Salt Supplies
(CBS) — The forecasted snow is the last thing towns with busted budgets need. The long winter is forcing towns and villages to stretch their salt supplies. CBS 2’s Dorothy Tucker reports they’ve used...
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Three Shot In South Shore
CHICAGO (STMW) – Two men and a woman were shot Tuesday afternoon in the South Shore neighborhood. Just after 5 p.m., the men, ages 26 and 27, and the 30-year-old woman were inside a vehicle in the 7600...
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Avondale Couple’s Two Dogs Missing After Break-In
Updated 03/12/14 – 03/12/14 – 1:08 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – A Chicago couple is begging for help to get their precious pets back. It all started Tuesday morning when someone broke into the couple’s...
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Jackknifed Semi Closes Highway Ramp In NW Indiana
LAKE STATION, Ind. (STMW) – A jackknifed semi has closed the ramp leading from Interstate 65 to Interstate 80 in northwest Indiana for more than two hours Wednesday morning. The semi became jackknifed...
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Man Dies After Logan Square Shooting
CHICAGO (STMW) – A man died Tuesday night after he and another man were shot in the Logan Square neighborhood early that morning. Bernardo Catalan, 19, and a 23-year-old man told police they were in a...
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Three Shot In South Shore
CHICAGO (STMW) – Two men and a woman were shot Tuesday afternoon in the South Shore neighborhood. Just after 5 p.m., the men, ages 26 and 27, and the 30-year-old woman were inside a vehicle in the 7600...
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Late Winter Storm Makes This 3rd Snowiest Winter Ever For Chicago
Updated 03/12/14 – 4:00 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – This winter moved up another notch on the list of snowiest winters in Chicago overnight, when more than 3 inches fell at O’Hare International Airport,...
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Chicago Polar Plunge Raises More Than $1M
CHICAGO (AP) – The annual Polar Plunge into Lake Michigan has broken its fundraising records by raising more than $1 million for Special Olympics Chicago. Organizers announced Tuesday the event...
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RTA Sues American Airlines For Dodging Taxes
CHICAGO (AP) – The agency that oversees public transportation in Chicago is suing American Airlines for falsely claiming to buy “vast amounts of jet fuel” from a small office in a rural community to...
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Man Wounded In Edgewater Shooting
CHICAGO (STMW) – A man was seriously wounded in a shooting Wednesday morning in the Edgewater neighborhood on the North Side. The shooting happened about 7:40 a.m. in the 5800 block of North Kenmore...
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Unplayed Blagojevich Tapes Added To Record, Will Stay Sealed
CHICAGO (AP) – A court in Chicago has confirmed that transcripts of FBI wiretaps not played at Rod Blagojevich’s corruption trials have been made part of the official appellate record. That decision...
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Snow Totals – March 12, 2014
Updated 03/12/14 – 11:07 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – This winter officially became the 3rd snowiest on record for Chicago on Wednesday, when 3.6 inches fell at O’Hare International Airport, bringing the...
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Senate Hopeful Slams Rival Oberweis For Florida Trip
(CBS) – One of the two Republicans vying to challenge U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin in the fall is taking issue with his opponent being on vacation in Florida less than a week before the primary election. WBBM...
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2014 Chicago Winter Now 10 Inches Short Of All-Time Snow Record
By John Dodge CHICAGO (CBS) — After Wednesday morning’s snow, Chicago is now 10 inches shy of the all-time record for snowfall in a single season. That got us to wondering: Is it worth enduring a few...
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Another Snow Day For Many Schools, Thanks To Power Outages
ORLAND PARK, Ill. (CBS) – Several Chicago area schools were closed Wednesday due to the snow, in most cases because a winter storm knocked out power. WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports more than...
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Skokie Police Officer Sues Village Over Military Leave Policy
CHICAGO (CBS) — A suburban police officer who is also a U.S. Marine reservist is suing the village that employs him. Skokie police officer Baldo “Al” Bello contends in his lawsuit the village is...
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Wet, Blowing Snow Covers Some Traffic Signals
CHICAGO (CBS) – Energy-efficient traffic lights have been creating hazards at some intersections, because blowing snow was able to cover up the signals, and prevent drivers from seeing whether it’s...
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Weather War? Jerry Taft Takes A Twitter Swipe At Brant Miller
By John Dodge CHICAGO (CBS) — Has the sleeping bear awoken? While on vacation, ABC 7′s weather front man Jerry Taft took to Twitter to take a little shot at a wildly inaccurate snow forecast by rival...
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