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City of Chicago will sue U.S. Steel over spill of toxic metal into Lake Michigan
The City of Chicago is taking legal action against U.S. Steel after the company dumped more toxic metal into Lake Michigan last month. In late October, nearly 60 pounds of chromium leaked into a Lake Michigan tributary after a wastewater treatment system malfunctioned at the U.S. Steel factory in northwest Indiana. It was the second time it’s happened in the past six months.
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15 black men have had all drugs charges against them dropped after being 'framed'
Fifteen African American men who say they were framed by a corrupt Chicago police officer and his team, have had all the charges against them.
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Never Bring Me Down
Kamilah Sumner
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Serial masturbators are 'being rewarded with pizza' if they abstain, say female staff at prison
Inmates in a Chicago jail have been offered pizza as a reward for abstaining from masturbation for 30 days, a lawsuit alleges. Female lawyers in the city's main prison say they have faced chronic masturbation and constant sexual harassment from detainees, and a system to reward abstainers with pizza has worsened the situation. A class action lawsuit filed on behalf of female law clerks and assistant attorneys in the Cook County Public Defender’s Office describes a deteriorating security situation.
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Ex-President Barack Obama shows up in Chicago for jury duty
Former President Barack Obama, free of a job that forced him to move to Washington for eight years, showed up to a downtown Chicago courthouse for jury duty on Wednesday morning. Then he heard the words most prospective jurors pray for: You’re dismissed. The 44th president’s motorcade — considerably shorter than the one when he lived in the White House — left his home in the Kenwood neighborhood on the city’s South Side and arrived at the Richard J. Daley Center shortly after 10 a.m.
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Close friends linked to a sharper memory
Maintaining positive, warm and trusting friendships might be the key to a slower decline in memory and cognitive functioning, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. SuperAgers -- who are 80 years of age and older who have cognitive ability at least as good as people in their 50s or 60s -- reported having more satisfying, high-quality relationships compared to their cognitively average, same-age peers, the study reports.
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Life and Death After the Steel Mills
Anthropologist Christine Walley raises questions about how to create and support meaningful work in a postindustrial world. By Elizabeth Svoboda.
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The Story Behind the Chicago Newspaper That Bought a Bar
The oral history of how a determined Chicago reporter convinced her boss to do something that hadn’t been done before—to create a fake business with a real location. By Andy Wright.
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Unauthorized Stranger Things Bar Gets Greatest Cease and Desist Letter EVER from Netflix
Since its debut back in 2016, Stranger Things has taken the world by storm, with fans all over the planet doing various and crazy things to pay homage to the franchise. Back in August, a bar in Chicago named Emporium Arcade Bar has launched a pop-up bar called “The Upside Down,” selling Stranger Things memorabilia and themed drinks. Unsurprisingly, Netflix got aware of the bar and sent a cease and desist letter to the owners. It’s a very cool and mellow letter, though!
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Chicago Records 500th Homicide for 2017: Report
Chicago has reached a bloody milestone amid a particularly deadly weekend that saw at least 10 people killed and 31 others wounded in shootings across the city. The weekend killings lifted the city to more than 500 homicides for the year so far, according to data from the Chicago Tribune. Chicago police said as of Sunday evening, 490 homicides had been reported for the year, but the department's statistics don't include killings on area expressways, police-involved shootings, self-defense killings or death investigations.
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Chicago Teen Found Dead in Rosemont Hotel Freezer
A 19-year-old Chicago woman was found dead in a freezer at a hotel in suburban Rosemont early Sunday, hours after she was reported missing, according to police.
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Chicago radio hosts argue caricature of racism is not itself racism
Maze Jackson and journalist Charles Thomas took to the air to defend a controversial cartoon on the Illinois Policy Institute's website during a recent edition of Chicago's WVON "Morning Show." The cartoon, which depicts a cigar-chomping white man in a suit and a black child sitting on a street corner holding a hat that reads...
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Personal data of 1.8 million Chicago voters accidentally exposed by vendor
A security researcher found a backup file containing personal data for all Chicago voters exposed on an unsecured cloud-storage server.
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Chicago LGBT march bans Jewish pride flags: 'They made people feel unsafe'
Three people carrying Jewish Pride flags were asked to leave the annual Chicago Dyke March on Saturday. The Chicago-based LGBTQ newspaper Windy City Times quoted a Dyke March collective member as saying the rainbow flag with the Star of David in the middle "made people feel unsafe," and that the march was "pro-Palestinian" and "anti-Zionist."
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1 killed, 13 wounded in Chicago during first 12 hours of weekend
At least 14 people were shot across Chicago during the first 12 hours of the weekend, leaving one man dead. More than 200 people have been shot in the first half of the month, and more than 1,500 have been shot this year, according to Chicago Sun-Times data. Of those victims, 276 have died.
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Welcome to Refugee High
At Sullivan High School, where hijabs are as common as high-tops, a new mission has meant a second chance—both for the Rogers Park school and its swelling ranks of immigrant students.
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Chicago Was On The Verge Of Police Reform. Then Trump Picked Sessions To Run The DOJ
The city will serve as a bellwether for how – or if – the Justice Department will fight police abuse under the new attorney general. By Ryan J. Reilly, Kim Bellware.
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Thousands Join 'March for Science' in Chicago
Thousands of people gathered in downtown Chicago on Saturday to join the “March for Science” event, one of hundreds of rallies around the world advocating for the scientific community. Scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. in the city’s Grant Park, crowds were so large by 12 p.m. that Chicago police issued a request that anyone planning to attend, but had not yet arrived, refrain from joining the event.
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Straw purchaser with 4 felony gun charges will not get jail time
A Chicago-area woman arrested last year for her role in illegally selling guns to prohibited buyers, some with gang affiliations, was sentenced to probation and community service last week. Simone Mousheh, 23, of the Chicago suburb of Mount Prospect, will have to complete 15 days of community service in the Cook County Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program and 12 months probation after pleading guilty to illegal transfer of firearms last week, as reported by the Daily Herald.
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A 6-year-old girl gives up her birthday party to give back to the homeless
Armani Crews was turning 6. But what she was asking her parents for was far from a typical birthday party. The Chicago kindergartener said she didn't want a celebration with her friends. She wanted, instead, to feed the homeless. When her mom said they could hand out sandwiches, she insisted on serving exactly what she'd have had at her party.
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