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Sears Tower plot leader gets 13-year prison term
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The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection was sentenced Friday to 13 years
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Man charged with planting fake bombs downtown
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A West Side man faces felony charges after he was arrested on suspicion of planting fake bombs near the headquarters of the Boeing Co. and One Prudential Plaza, police said. Chicago police foot patrol
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Michigan Avenue holiday fest set for Saturday
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Kicking off the holiday season the weekend before Thanksgiving, the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival was expected to bring 800,000 people and close streets downtown Saturday. The festival, sponsored by
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Home Builders Association files Chapter 11
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Rolling Meadows-based Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago Friday filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Chicago. The association has about $2 million in debt and a dwindling
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Veteran Chicago Official Resigns, Firing Imminent?
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In the wake of an investigation by the Chicago Inspector General's (IG) office into contract practices at the Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC), life-long public safety communications
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Sears Tower plotter gets 13 1/2 years
- 9 Hours ago
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The man authorities say led a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago was sentenced Friday in Miami to 13 1/2 years in federal prison. Prosecutors had wanted to see Narseal Batiste sent away for 70
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L.A. mayor selects new housingchief from Chicago
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today announced his selection of Douglas Guthrie to become the new general manager of the city's Housing Department. Guthrie, a former top official at the Chicago
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Irving Kriesberg: Painter, teacher was born in Chicago
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His son Matthias told the New York Times that Mr. Kriesberg died Nov. 11 of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 90. Mr. Kriesberg earned a bachelor of fine arts from the School of the Art Institute
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DNA from Asian carp found 7 miles from Lake Michigan
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Sophisticated genetic testing in Chicago area waterways has found evidence of the dreaded Asian carp within seven miles of Lake Michigan, federal and state officials said in a cautious note of concern
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Judge tells Chicago to let students transfer
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A federal judge told Chicago Public Schools on Monday to arrange for the immediate transfer of students who want to leave a South Side high school after an honor studentâ??s brutal beating death. U.S.
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Ashlee Simpson back in Chicago
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Simpson-Wentz is to star in the Broadway production of 'Chicago'. The 25-year-old star played murderess Roxie Hart in the London West End version of the musical and is now reprising the part in New York's
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Fire breaks out in 100-year-old West Side church
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A fire broke out in a nearly 100-year-old church in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side Friday afternoon as workers were restoring the 'beautiful' structure. About 3 p.m., fire crews
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Oprah, Chicago lucky to have each other
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Oprah Winfrey has said one of her favorite books growing up was 'A Tree Grows In Brooklyn' by Betty Smith, a novel about a smart girl with a big heart who blossoms beautifully in a world of poverty, violence
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Elgin fire intentionally set, father charged
- 6 Hours ago
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Send To: From: Comments: The father of the 2-year-old trapped in Thursday's house fire in Elgin has been charged with setting the blaze. James R. Beavers Jr., 31, of the 500 block of Cumberland Trails
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4 held in South Side home invasion, robbery
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invasion, robbery - News in Current Weather Find a story: More News: 4 held in home invasion, robbery November 20, 2009 10:03 AM Four people are accused of beating and robbing a 62-year-old man during
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Chicago arrests drive home global terrorism threat
- 23 Hours ago
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Until 2006, he was Daood Gilani, but he told investigators he had changed his name to raise less suspicion when he traveled abroad. He lived anonymously in an apartment leased in the name of a dead person.
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