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Study: Physical, Electric Barriers Best Defenses Against Asian Carp
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) – Placing dam-like structures in Chicago waterways would be an almost foolproof method of preventing Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan, while a less pricey electric...
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1 Dead, 1 Wounded In South Side Shooting
CHICAGO (STMW) – One person was killed and another hospitalized following a shooting in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side. The shooting happened about 12:30 p.m. in the 700...
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Expert: Use Of Road Salt Leads To Slight Increase In Salinity In Water Supply
(CBS) — As we’ve been reporting, road crews have been using so many tons of salt this winter – their supplies are dwindling. We wondered: what happens to all that salt after it’s on the roads? play...
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Stradivarius Violin Stolen From NU Lecturer In Stun Gun Attack In Milwaukee
CBS — A worldwide search is underway for a priceless Stradivarius violin, stolen Monday night from a violinist with ties to Northwestern University. “The artistic heritage of Milwaukee was assaulted...
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Snow In Atlanta Sends Blizzard Of Reporters To The Scene
CHICAGO (CBS) — A television news station has given a new meaning to “team coverage” of the snowstorm that has left Atlanta stricken. The entire city has ground to a halt, hundreds of motorists were...
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Ice Traps Woman Inside House For Weeks
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Chicago woman has been basically trapped inside her home for weeks because her door has been encased in a block of ice. River Bully told CBS 2′s Ed Curran that a neighbor’s leaking...
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Google Selling Motorola Mobility To China’s Lenovo
CHICAGO (CBS) — Google is selling off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. Google bought Motorola, based in Libertyville, for about $12 billion in 2011. “The smart phone market is super...
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Federal Lawsuit Accuses Eight Chicago Cops Of Illegal Strip Searches
CHICAGO (CBS) – Eight Chicago Police officers face a federal lawsuit for illegal strip searches. Three people are part of the federal lawsuit alleging eight Chicago police officers searched them...
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Woman Files Suit Against Employer Who Fired Her Hours After Cancer Diagnosis
CHICAGO (CBS) – The day Elisa Madonia learned she had cancer, she thought things couldn’t get any worse, but they did. She says just a few hours after her doctors told her employer she would need some...
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Alderman Says Progress Has Been Made Since Hadiya Pendleton’s Death
CHICAGO (CBS) – It’s been a solemn day on Chicago’s South Side. One year ago, 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was murdered. Her former classmates honored her memory at their high school. King College Prep...
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Girl, 17, Hurt In Woodlawn Shooting
CHICAGO (STMW) – A bullet grazed a teen girl’s head in the South Side Woodlawn neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, leaving her seriously hurt. The girl, 17, was in the 6400 block of South Stony Island...
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Police Union Wants Google To Reveal Poster Of FOP Meetings On YouTube
CHICAGO (STMW) — Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police is asking Google to reveal the identity of whoever posted recordings of two heated FOP meetings on YouTube, saying they violated state law, the...
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Mt. Assisi High School To Close At The End Of The School Year
LEMONT, Ill. (CBS) – After 63 years in education, Mount Assisi Academy in Lemont says it will close its doors as a four-year high school at the end of the school year. A statement on the school’s...
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Long Hours By Plow Drivers Could Pose Safety Risk
(CBS) – Suburban truck driver Renato Velasquez was allegedly behind the wheel for 37 hours–with less than four hours of sleep. He remains held on $150,000 bond after a deadly crash this week on the...
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Broken Heating System Keeping Gary School Closed
GARY, Ind. (CBS) – School may have been back in session in Chicago Wednesday after the cold, but not at one Gary, Indiana school. Classes remained cancelled at Roosevelt College and Career Academy...
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Woman Sexually Assaulted In Rogers Park Laundry Room
Updated at 6:30 p.m. on 1/30/2014 CHICAGO (CBS) — A woman was sexually assaulted while doing her laundry in an apartment in Rogers Park on Wednesday evening, police said. The 24-year-old woman was in...
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High Winds, Snow Forecast For Thursday
CHICAGO (CBS) — The extreme cold is gone, but Chicago will be trading that for some windy and snowy conditions on Thursday. In addition, conditions are developing for a more significant storm on...
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Sheriff Deputy’s Young Son Kills Self With Officer’s Gun
CHICAGO (CBS) — Police in Yorkville are calling it a terrible tragedy–the apparent suicide of a very young boy. WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports, the boy, only 11 years old and a sixth...
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I-80 Ramp Closed After Truck Carrying 37,000 Pounds Of Batteries Overturns
THORNTON (CBS) — A semi carrying more than 30,000 pounds of batteries rolled over on a ramp off southbound Interstate 294 in south suburban Thornton. About 5 a.m., the semi–filled with 37,000 pounds of...
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Robbery Suspects Arrested On South Shore Train
OGDEN DUNES, Ind. (CBS) — Three robbery suspects who tried to elude police by boarding a South Shore train heading to Chicago were taken into custody Wednesday afternoon at the Portage/Ogden Dunes...
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