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Spring storm makes for week of weird weather
Officials warned today that a powerful spring storm will drag in a motley combination of cold, warmth, fog, and heavy rain with possible flooding, making for a weird weather week in Chicagoland. The week started with morning rainstroms yesterday...
Tags: Weather Reports, Chicago Weather
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FAA says flight delays not as bad as feared
Flight delays this week tied to air traffic controller furloughs in the U.S. have not been as bad as originally forecast, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told lawmakers the agency didn't...
Tags: Employees, Finance, Air Transportation Delays, Layoffs and Downsizing, Air Transportation Industry
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Brace for delays at O'Hare
Delays may average 50 minutes per flight at O'Hare International Airport this week because of fewer air traffic controllers in the tower until the federal budget sequestration is resolved, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. It would be the...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Chicago Tribune, Michigan Avenue, Unemployment, Transportation
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Illinois' method for measuring student poverty raises count statewide
In the federal government's view, an estimated 1,339 poor schoolchildren live within the affluent Arlington Heights-based School District 59. But the state counted 3,536 poor students when it doled out a "poverty grant" to the district this school year....
Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Poverty, Burr Ridge, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Children's Health
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Union compensation to rise $4.81 over 5 years in new Hilton pact
Tribune reporterSix hundred unionized workers at the Drake, Palmer House, Chicago Hilton and Towers and the Hilton O'Hare will see their compensation increase by a total of $4.81 over the course of five years beginning September. The increase is part of a deal signed...Tags: Employees, Collective Contract, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Work Relations, Chicago Hotels
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Scams blocking Chinese investors' path to U.S. green cards
Jianwei Li and two other wealthy Chinese businessmen thought they had a sure thing when they wired $1 million each to a California firm that had promised to build a fine Chinese restaurant in the Bay Area city of San Bruno. The project had an alluring...
Tags: Lawyers, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Finance, Patrick Leahy, Heart Attack
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FBI: Aurora man wanted to join al-Qaida in Syria
Chicago TribuneAn 18-year-old Aurora man with ties to a foiled attempt last year to bomb a downtown Chicago bar was arrested as he was about to travel to the Middle East to join the al-Qaida terrorist network, federal officials said Saturday. Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, a...Tags: Trials, Terrorism, FBI, Bombings, Police Arrests
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Detroit Free Press Ellen Creager column
Detroit Free PressFlight delays continue to affect Detroit Metro Airport for a second day today as Federal Aviation Administration worker furloughs strike the nation's aiports. As of 12:30 p.m., Detroit had 18 departure delays and 22 arrival delays of more than 15...Tags: Air Transportation Delays, Air Transportation Industry, Layoffs and Downsizing, Freedom of the Press, Detroit Free Press
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Airlines fly above air traffic doomsday predictions
Criticism intensified Monday that the Obama administration is deliberately inconveniencing and potentially endangering the flying public by going ahead with threatened staffing reductions at airport air traffic towers and radar facilities, instead of...
Tags: Jay Carney, Jerry Moran, Rick Larsen, Employees, Transportation Industry
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Developer Notes
William Ryan Homes offers Custom Collection With the introduction of William Ryan's Custom Collection, buyers can now select a home site anywhere they want and William Ryan will do the rest. Currently, the company is building a custom home model in...
Tags: Architecture, Yorkville (Kendall, Illinois), Energy Saving, Morton Grove, House Building
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Slow-moving snowstorm pummels southern Michigan, Midwest
CHICAGO (AP) — A massive, slow-moving storm paralyzed parts of the nation's midsection with heavy, wet snow Tuesday, straining power lines, closing schools, clogging roadways and delaying hundreds of flights before churning eastward, where...
Tags: Snow Storms, National Weather Service, Natural Disasters, Highway Transportation, Droughts
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Cost of single rail ride ticket could rise to $3
RedEyeA single rail ride could cost $3 if the rider pays with cash when the CTA unveils its new open fare payment system Ventra this summer. The CTA is proposing a 50-cent "limited use media fee" for disposable single ride tickets. The $3 would cover $2.25...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority
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