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Chicago - Midway (KMDW)
360° Aerial Sphere Panorama from Chicago Midway Airport
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Coal City says tornado tore through, causing heavy damage but minor injuries
Coal City officials said Tuesday morning that they believe a tornado tore through the town overnight, hitting the high school as it came from the west, tearing up dozens of homes and then heavily damaging a fire station as it left.
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Chicago Pension Investments: Rahm Emanuel’s Proposed Merger Could Benefit Campaign Donors
Chicago's mayor says merging state pension funds will solve his city's education funding crisis, but it also directs funds to campaign donors. By Matthew Cunningham-Cook and David Sirota.
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82 shot, 14 killed in Chicago 4th of July weekend shootings, report says
Among the 14 killed were two teenage boys who were shot dead by police officers over the Fourth of July weekend in two separate incidents
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12th July 1979 - Disco is dealt death blow by fans of the Chicago White Sox
As the 1970s came to an end, the age of disco was also nearing its finale. But for all of its decadence and overexposure, disco didn’t quite die a natural death by collapsing under its own weight.
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54 stingrays dead after habitat malfunction at Brookfield Zoo, Chicago
Brookfield Zoo officials said all 54 stingrays in the zoo's Stingray Bay habitat died Friday after oxygen levels dropped in the tank in which the animals lived.
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City fires investigator who found cops at fault in shootings
Lorenzo Davis was the only supervisor at Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority who resisted orders to change findings about shootings, according to an evaluation by IPRA obtained by WBEZ.
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Hologram Performance by Chief Keef Is Shut Down by Police
A performance by the Chicago rapper Chief Keef — or rather, his likeness, beamed live via hologram from California — was shut down by the police on Saturday night in Hammond, Ind., after warnings from the mayor’s office that the performer could not appear, even digitally, promoters said on Sunday. The surprise appearance of Chief Keef at Craze Fest, a hip-hop festival in Hammond, about 25 miles outside of Chicago...
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There Goes the Neighborhood
The Obama library will displace the black working class on Chicago’s South Side, completing the work the University of Chicago started sixty years ago. By Rick Perlstein.
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Man freed after being wrongly imprisoned for 17 years is fatally shot in Chicago
On the day he was finally released from prison after murder charges were dropped, Alprentiss Nash vowed he would use his freedom studying to become a chef, learning about antique cars and traveling. And in the nearly three years since, he kept true to his word, visiting New Orleans, Miami and Atlanta and learning to ski at a resort in Wisconsin. He also bought a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and a 1960 Buick Electra 225 and completed a culinary program.
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New Kids in the Neighborhood, 1967
By Norman Rockwell, 1967, Oil on canvas.
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As Nabisco Ships 600 Jobs out of Chicago to Mexico, Maybe It's Time to Give up Oreos
For me? Just as I don't shop at Wal-Mart where guns are sold next to the cereal, I won't be eating Oreos. A small and ineffectual gesture, perhaps, but one that will give me some satisfaction while I wait and work for a government that takes a stand.
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DJ Spinn & DJ Rashad: Dubby Feat Danny Brown
Taken From The Release, DJ Spinn: Off That Loud - Released on Hyperdub on 02/10/2015. Video shot and produced by Ashes57 Footwork Dancing By The Era
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The Wonderfully Weird World of Martellus Bennett
He’s coming off the best year ever for a Bears tight end (yes, including Mike Ditka). But that’s not even close to the most interesting thing about him.
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A Tour of Lake Michigan, My Inland Sea
Chicago. Sand dunes. A ferry crossing. A voyage reveals striking topography, time-worn communities and the reassuring permanence of an unchanging lake amid it all.
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We Spoke to the Creator of the Chief Keef Hologram That Was Banned from Performing in Illinois
By projecting his hologram from California to Chicago, Keef was performing without triggering local arrest warrants. Almost.
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The True Story Of How One Man Shut Down American Commerce To Avoid Paying His Workers A Fair Wage
America's railroads -- and with them, its economy -- nearly ground to a halt in 1894 because one of the wealthiest men in American history decided to grow his own fortune on the backs of hungry workers.
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Netflix and Amazon users sue to stop Chicago’s 9% streaming tax
Local governments are taxing popular cloud services to make up for lost sales tax revenue. But they face a legal problem. It’s on. Subscribers to popular streaming services, including XBox Live and Spotify, have filed a lawsuit that claims the city of Chicago’s controversial tax policy on digital entertainment is illegal. The challenge to the tax policy, filed last week in Cook County state court, is important because it could help define...
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4 Dead, 52 Wounded in Weekend Shootings Across Chicago
A violent weekend left four people dead and at least 52 others injured, including a 10-year-old girl and 13-year-old boy, in shootings across Chicago.
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8th October 1871 - Great Chicago Fire begins
Flames spark in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary, igniting a two-day blaze that kills between 200 and 300 people, destroys 17,450 buildings, leaves 100,000 homeless and causes an estimated $200 million (in 1871 dollars; $3 billion in 2007 dollars) in damages.
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