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Volunteer Projects To Highlight Martin Luther King Day
CHICAGO (CBS) – Do not fire a gun today. That’s the message from the daughter of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bernice King was urging people worldwide to make Dr. Martin Luther...
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Two In Custody For Stabbing/Slashing Attack In Portage Park
Updated 01/20/14 – 10:34 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – Two people were in custody on Monday, after a young woman and a young man were stabbed or slashed in the Portage Park neighborhood, and fled to a local...
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Former CSO Guest Conductor Claudio Abbado Dies
(CBS) – Claudio Abbado, a renowned Italian conductor with a long relationship with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, died Monday morning at the age of 80 at his home in Italy. WBBM Newsradio’s Regine...
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More Snow, More Cold — And It’s Only Mid January
CHICAGO (CBS) — Here we go again. More snow. Plummeting temperatures. Brutal wind chill. What’s worse, the “lake effect” could drop several inches of snow on certain parts of the Chicago region. The...
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Better Business Bureau Releases List Of Top Ten Scams Of 2013
(CBS) — Chicago’s Better Business Bureau has made a list of the top ten scams of last year. Number one on the list says the Bureau’s Steve Bernas are advanced fee brokers who tell victims they can get...
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Oak Lawn 911 Center Goes Private
OAK LAWN, Ill. (STMW) – Oak Lawn’s 911 center is going private this week, the Southtown Star is reporting. Village manager Larry Deetjen announced at last week’s village board meeting that the center...
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GOP Candidate Kirk Dillard Calls For Cutting Gasoline Tax
(CBS) — Republican candidate for Governor Kirk Dillard is sounding a theme that may be welcome to some motorists. He’s suggesting a cut to one of the state’s two gasoline taxes. “We have a sales tax on...
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Preckwinkle Takes Aim At High Incarceration Rate
CHICAGO (CBS) — Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is making Martin Luther King day an opportunity to have a look inside her own jail, reports WBBM’s John Cody. “We have five percent of the...
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Incidents Of Feces On L Trains Increasing In Cold Weather
CHICAGO (CBS) — The cold weather has created an unpleasant trend on the CTA’s Red Line. Human feces. A CTA spokesman confirms there have been a “handful” of complaints about people using train cars as...
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Local Author Chronicles Disappearance Of Passenger Pigeon
(CBS) – It was 100 years ago when the passenger pigeon became extinct. WBBM’s Steve Miller spoke with a Chicago author who chronicled the disappearance of the species. “It’s rare when we know when the...
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Child Advocacy Group Warns Of Impact Of Expiring Tax Hike
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CBS) – With the governor’s office warning of a nearly $2 billion budget shortfall next fiscal year, after a 2011 income tax hike expires at the end of December, at least one social...
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Hinsdale Middle School To Stay Closed This Week For Mold Cleanup
HINSDALE, Ill. (CBS) — Hinsdale Middle School says cleaning up mold in the building will keep it closed through the week. “Let me make it clear from the board’s perspective and administration, the...
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Company That Supplies Chicago’s Bike-Sharing Program Files For Bankruptcy:...
(CBS) – The future of Chicago’s highly publicized Divvy bike-sharing program could be in question. The Chicago Sun-Times reports the company that supplies the distinctive blue bicycles, stations and...
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Typhoon Haiyan Survivors Return To Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) — Survivors of the typhoon in the Philippines and longtime residents of Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood returned home Monday. Ray and Leila Villar returned to Chicago exactly one year...
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Attorneys Promise Bombshells In Release Of Church Sex-Abuse Documents
(CBS) – Attorneys for sexual assault victims of 30 Chicago priests say documents they’ll release Tuesday show a tangled web of deceit by the Archdiocese. Six thousand pages of investigative reports...
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Chicago Leaders Mentoring Young African-Americans
CHICAGO (CBS) – On the day we celebrate the life of Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr., some ask where are today’s leaders? CBS 2′s Jim Williams introduces to a couple of Chicagoans who are offering...
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Part Of Human Skull Found Amid Construction Work In Northwest Indiana
(STMW) – Workers at an Embridge Pipeline construction site in northwest Indiana found a portion of a human skull Monday morning. Contractors working for Enbridge made the discovery shortly before 10...
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Road-Salt Supply A Concern For One Suburb
(CBS) – With more snow expected, the pressure’s on to make sure each community has enough road salt to melt it away. In north suburban Lincolnshire, there have been ongoing supply concerns because...
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Area Man’s Gift Card May Have Been ‘Pre-Hacked’
(CBS) – Chances are you received gift cards during the holiday season. People love to get them. But as CBS 2’s Dorothy Tucker reports, you need to know that gift cards can get hacked, and some even...
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Boy, 13, Seriously Hurt In West Side Hit-And-Run
CHICAGO (STMW) – A 13-year-old boy was seriously injured Monday night, after being struck by a vehicle in the Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. The boy was struck by a vehicle while he was...
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