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Woman Buying Lottery Tickets Injured After Pickup Slams Into Store
By John Dodge CHICAGO (CBS) — A woman buying lottery tickets at a South Side convenience store was injured when a pickup truck careened into the building. The crash took place around 2:30 p.m. at the...
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Mayor Emanuel To Return $8,200 Expense For Obama Inaugural
CHICAGO (CBS) — After news broke that Rahm Emanuel stayed in an $1,800 a night hotel suite on the taxpayer’s dime, the mayor’s office on Friday said Emanuel will reimburse the city for the expense....
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One Year Later, Memory Of Chicago-Area Flood Lingers
(CBS) – Where were you when the rains came? One year ago, an unrelenting storm system caused widespread flooding in the Chicago area. More than 100 homes and businesses were underwater in Des Plaines....
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Someone You Should Know: Lady Who Came Up With The Name ‘Big Mac’
(CBS) – It’s probably the most famous sandwich in America, and one woman can claim to have played a role in inventing it. CBS 2’s Harry Porterfield says Esther Glickstein Rose is someone you should...
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Members Of Chicago’s Polish Community Look Forward To John Paul II’s...
(CBS) – Good Friday and Easter weekend finds hundreds of Chicagoans preparing for a trip to the Vatican. Next weekend, the late pope who’s a symbol of freedom for them and their Polish homeland will be...
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Far South Side Residents Endorse Red Line Extension
(CBS) – The CTA has an ambitious proposal in the works: extending the Red Line from 95th Street south to 130th, with four new stops along the way. CBS 2’s Dorothy Tucker has reaction from CTA riders....
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Cook County Issues 1,000th Same-Sex Marriage License
(STMW) – Cook County has now issued 1,000 marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Clerk David Orr’s office announced. Albany Park couple Tom Crisham, 36, and Andrew Rodbro, 38, received the 1000th...
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10 Years Ago This Weekend, Deadly Tornado Ripped Through Utica, Ill.
(CBS) – Sunday is the tenth anniversary of the tornado that hit the small north central Illinois town of Utica, killing eight people. The tornado flattened a century-old tavern in the town of about...
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Lake County Inmate On Suicide Watch Hangs Himself
(CBS) — A Ukrainian national awaiting trial for stalking and breaking into the home of an ex-girlfriend hanged himself early Friday at the Lake County Jail in Waukegan. Police identified the inmate as...
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Man Who Shot At Mosque With Pellet Gun Gets Probation
(STMW) – A man accused of firing a high-powered pellet gun at a Morton Grove mosque in 2012 was sentenced to more than two years of probation after pleading guilty Friday. David Conrad, 51, pleaded...
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State’s First Artificial Heart Patient Dies
(CBS) – It started as a medical miracle: a man who desperately needed a heart transplant was given the state’s first full artificial heart. It kept him alive, until something went wrong. CBS 2’s Brad...
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Passenger Shot During NW Side Car Chase Flees To Police Station
CHICAGO (STMW) — A woman sitting in the passenger seat of a minivan was shot Saturday morning while the driver was being pursued by people in another car. The 30-year-old woman was in a minivan heading...
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Man Found Shot To Death In West Town
CHICAGO (STMW) — A man was found shot to death inside a crashed vehicle in the West Town neighborhood early Saturday. The 19-year-old was found unresponsive about 2:30 a.m. inside a vehicle in the 1600...
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Man Shot To Death In South Austin Neighborhood
CHICAGO (STMW) – A man was shot to death Friday night in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side. The 20-year-old man was standing in a gangway in the 5200 block of West Congress Parkway about...
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5 Dead, 12 Wounded In Shootings Since Friday Evening
CHICAGO (STMW) — Five people have been killed and at least 12 others have been wounded in shootings across the city since Friday evening. About 10:38 a.m. Saturday, police discovered two teens that...
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Part Of Man’s Ear Bitten Off By Underage Girlfriend’s Brother
CHICAGO (STMW) – A South Side man who twice impregnated a minor teen had part of his ear bitten off by his young paramour’s brother, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. Jonathan Rios, who appeared in...
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Woman Dies After Being Pulled From Lake Michigan
CHICAGO (STMW) — A woman died after she was pulled from Lake Michigan downtown Friday night. Emergency crews responded to a call of a body in the water in the 300 block of Lake Shore Drive near Navy...
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Eldery Man Dies After Being Struck By Truck
CHICAGO (STMW) –A truck struck and killed a pedestrian Saturday morning in the Logan Square neighborhood. The incident happened at 6:42 a.m. in the 1500 block of West North Avenue, near Interstate 94,...
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Old Ashland Bridge Moved To Western Avenue
CHICAGO (CBS) — After a slow trek along North Avenue this morning a 100-year-old bridge is in place. WBBM’s Nancy Harty reports it was quite a spectacle, a slow moving parade of sorts with a 70-foot...
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Police: Man Killed In Saturday Morning Shooting On West Side
CHICAGO (STMW) — A man was found shot and killed Saturday morning in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. Police found the 43-year-old unresponsive in an alley about 9:30 a.m. in the 2900 block of West...
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