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Chicago was raised over 4 feet in the 19th century to build its sewer
In the middle of the 19th century, Chicago embarked on a quest to literally lift itself out of the mud. Water couldn't drain from the low-lying city, so its streets became impassable swamps. The most reasonable solution, Chicago decided, was just to raise the whole goddamn city by 4 to 14 feet.
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26.2 restaurants with Chicago Marathon deals
Another year, another Chicago Marathon, another slew of marathon-related restaurant specials. Whether you want to fuel up on carbs, recover with more carbs or sleep in before treating your crazy runner friends to Sunday afternoon brunch, these Chicago restaurants have just what you'll need.
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Police: Concealed carry license holder kills armed gunman
A customer with a concealed carry license shot and killed an armed man attempting to rob a neighborhood store, Chicago police said Sunday. A masked man walked into the store and currency exchange about 7 p.m. Saturday on the city's southwest side, displayed a handgun and announced a robbery to an employee, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. The gunman next pointed his weapon at another employee and forced her to the back of the store.
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How beekeeping jobs are giving ex-cons in Chicago a second chance
Sweet Beginnings, a social enterprise business, is reducing recidivism rates on Chicago's West Side by creating beekeeping jobs for people released from prison.
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Chicago releases dash-cam video of fatal shooting after cop charged with murder
Hours after a Chicago police officer was ordered held without bond on a first-degree murder charge, the city released a shocking police dash-cam video that captured the white officer opening fire on an African American teen on a Southwest Side street, striking him 16 times and killing him.
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28th November 1954 - Enrico Fermi, architect of the nuclear age, dies
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, the first man to create and control a nuclear chain reaction, and one of the Manhattan Project scientists, dies in Chicago at the age of 53.
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The Corrupt System That Killed Laquan McDonald
A Chicago cop now faces murder charges—but will anyone hold his colleagues, his superiors, and elected officials accountable for their failures? By Conor Friedersdorf.
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Judge sets $1.5 million bail for Chicago cop who killed teen
A judge considered dashcam video of the shooting in deciding whether to set bail.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel Fires Chicago Police Superintendent
A week ago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry F. McCarthy stood together, shoulder to shoulder, as this city released long-sought video of a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times along a Chicago street last year. But after nights of demonstration that followed the video’s release and growing calls for changes at the city’s police department and beyond, Mr. Emanuel stood alone at a podium on Tuesday to say that he had dismissed Mr. McCarthy.
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US Supreme Court will not hear 'assault weapons ban' case
The US Supreme court has refused to take up a case brought by gun owners challenging an Illinois city's ban on so-called assault weapons.
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Justice Department will investigate practices of Chicago police
Broad probe could bring sweeping reform to the department. By Sari Horwitz, Ellen Nakashima and Wesley Lowery.
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In Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago Surveillance State, Controlling the Data Is Key
The police killing of Laquan McDonald was extensively recorded. But politics is about who controls the digital traces—and their exposure or erasure. By Bernard E. Harcourt.
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Whatsoever Things Are True
A story of ruined reputations and failed memory, of courage and corruption, and a pair of poor black men who became pawns in a bitter political war. By Matthew Shaer.
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How To Predict Bad Cops In Chicago
Protests against police violence raged on in Chicago over the weekend, with some demonstrators demanding Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation over the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a polic…
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Chicago police fatally shoot two people after domestic disturbance call
Chicago police accidentally killed a 55-year-old mother of five early Saturday when responding to a domestic disturbance, according to a police statement late Saturday. “The 55-year-old female victim was accidentally struck and tragically killed,” the statement said. “The department extends it’s [sic] deepest condolences to the victim’s family and friends.”
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The Sudden But Well-Deserved Fall of Rahm Emanuel
It’s hard to remember a time when Rahm Emanuel wasn’t a Democratic Party superstar. By Rick Perlstein.
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Chicago lawyer accused of hiding shooting evidence resigns
A top city of Chicago lawyer stepped down after a federal judge accused him of hiding evidence in a fatal police shooting, the latest allegation of wrongdoing amid ongoing scrutiny of how the city deals with such cases. Separately, the city agency that investigates police shootings vowed greater transparency, saying Monday that it would start divulging some details of active cases as it tries to bolster public confidence in the process.
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Lawyers Went to Rahm Emanuel, Then Quashed the Laquan McDonald Video
The mayor’s men demanded that dash-cam video be kept confidential for at least several years as part of a $5M settlement with Laquan McDonald’s family. By Justin Glawe. (Jan. 6)
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10 days into new year, more than 100 people shot in Chicago
Seven people were shot to death and 30 more were wounded across Chicago over the weekend, raising the number of shootings in the city to more than 100 in just over a week into the new year, according to police. The fatal shootings included two teens killed by a store clerk during a robbery in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, and one of three people shot at a party four blocks from Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home.
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Pothole Installations by Jim Bachor
Chicago artist Jim Bachor transforms the city's pothole problem by turning them into mosaic works of art.
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