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What Trauma Docs Know
At Chicago’s most intense ERs, the degree of mayhem rivals that of a war zone. Working there can take a heavy toll—and yield immense rewards. By Kim Bellware, Illustrations by Amrita Marino.
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74 shooting victims: How Chicago emergency rooms handled the most violent weekend of the year
A surge in gunshot victims this past weekend meant Chicago-area hospitals stayed busy. By Elvia Malagon.
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Once Polluted and Reviled, the Chicago River Bounces Back
For city planners, the yearslong dream of a bustling waterfront may have finally become a reality. Mayors and city planners have long dreamed of making the Chicago River a busy, dazzling waterfront. It might have finally happened. This summer, I explored the riverfront in Chicago’s Loop to see the transformation.
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Chicago may become the largest US city to test a universal basic income scheme
Chicago could become the largest city in the US to test a universal basic income programme, if its local government takes up a new proposal to start handing out $500 (£385) a month to some households for free. City lawmakers have voiced support for legislation that would trial a basic income scheme for 1,000 families in Chicago.
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The West Chicago Tower Mystery
Shortwave Trading, Part I. By Alexandre Laumonier.
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Chicago Is Trying to Pay Down Its Debt by Impounding Innocent People’s Cars
How a uniquely punitive impound program combined with the drug war and asset forfeiture to deprive people of their vehicles for years at a time.
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36-year-old accountant forced into NHL goal crease, plays 14 perfect minutes
Scott Foster thought it was going to be just another night. Then the 36-year-old accountant signed a contract, put on his goaltender gear and waited in Chicago's locker room. Then he got into the game. Then, it was his night. Foster was pressed into action when Chicago lost Anton Forsberg and Collin Delia to injuries, and the former college goalie stopped all seven shots he faced over the final 14 minutes of the Blackhawks' 6-2 victory over the playoff-bound Winnipeg Jets on Thursday.
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NSFW Justice for Neringa: Former Judge Turned Political Prisoner
Everything you need to know about the former Judge turned Anti Corruption Anti Pedophile Activist can be found here http://oplithchild1.blogspot.ca/2012/05/neringa-venckiene-for-president.html In the video is her fifteen-year-old son Karolis speaking from his heart about the details of this case, backed up by the blog. There are other links in the original video to the White House Petition as well as the Go Fund Me for her defence fund.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company ‘Loop’ is one of last two contenders for the Chicago transit system
Elon Musk announced last year that his new startup, the Boring Company, would bid on Chicago’s transit project between the airport and downtown with a ‘high-speed loop.’
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Chicago father kills, nearly decapitates 2-year-old son because he couldn't sleep: Cops
The "brutal and horrific" slaying caps off a violent month in the city, which included the killing of a high-ranking police commander just last week, police said.
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Huntington's disease provides new cancer weapon
Patients with Huntington’s disease, a fatal genetic illness that causes the breakdown of nerve cells in the brain, have up to 80 percent less cancer than the general population. Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered why Huntington’s is so toxic to cancer cells and harnessed it for a novel approach to treat cancer, a new study reports.
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I (SUE the T. rex) am moving to my own place and all y’all are invited.
Seriously, it’s going to be sweet. positioning-sues-gastralia-1_web.jpg Two human scientists fiddling with my gastralia.
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More than 300K descend on downtown for second Women's March in Chicago: organizers
Thousands of demonstrators flooded downtown Chicago for the second Women's March, this year known as March to the Polls.
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For Jordan, Best Game Of His Career
Michael Jordan didn't hesitate when asked what he considered to be the best of his many great games. "This would have to be it," Jordan said after scoring a career-high 69 points and leading the Chicago Bulls to a 117-113 overtime victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers Wednesday night. "Everything seemed to fall and I found myself in a great rhythm." Jordan made 23 of 37 field-goal attempts and 21 of 23 foul shots while compiling the ninth best single-game scoring performance in NBA history.
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Research Shows Uninsured Do Not Use Emergency Rooms More than Other Patients – They Use Other Care Less
One of the most common arguments for expanding publicly subsidized health coverage is that the uninsured overuse and overburden emergency departments. This argument persists despite evidence that, when the uninsured gain Medicaid coverage, emergency department use increases. A new study by Katherine Baicker, dean and Emmett Dedmon professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and co-authors sheds light on the potential sources of the disconnect between the evidence and the conventional wisdom.
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Activists want states to copy Illinois’ ban of "gay panic defense"
Starting in January, Illinois will bar a rare criminal defense allowing the use of a victim's sexual orientation as justification for violent crime, a ban gay rights advocates say they will attempt to replicate in about half a dozen states next year. Defense attorneys will no longer be able to mount the so-called "gay panic defense" in Illinois, the second state after California to prohibit the tactic. There are variations, but the defense argument generally goes like this: A person doesn't realize someone is gay or transgender and engages in a flirtation...
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Elon Musk to compete for high-speed loop in Chicago
The billionaire tech entrepreneur joins the competition to build a high-speed loop connecting O'Hare Airport to downtown Chicago.
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Chicago cop Marco Proano, who shot at stolen car full of black teens, sentenced
Maco Proano fired 16 shots, wounding two of the teens, authorities said; he was sentenced on civil rights charges.
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Death by Derivatives
The opening of a canal in 1848 led to the birth of modern financial derivatives, and the early demise of some of the men who traded them. By Michael Durbin.
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Wanted: Aggressive Lake Michigan protection
Environmental activists and particularly Chicago’s surfing community welcomed news this week that the city of Chicago is initiating legal action against a Lake Michigan polluter based in Indiana. For years, surfers have traded stories of skin rashes and infections they blame on oil and chemical pollutants along the curved beaches of northwest Indiana. There, lake enthusiasts share a coastline with steel mills and oil refineries. Surfers know to follow certain protocols: Wear a wetsuit. Don’t swallow the water. Shower immediately afterward.
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