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Poll: City residents don't want speed cameras
Mayor Rahm Emanuel billed his soon-to-be-launched speed camera program as being about child safety and not raising cash, but a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows most Chicago voters are skeptical of the mayor's rationale and don't want the devices. The survey...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Jefferson Park, Chicago Tribune, Photography Supplies and Services, Richard M. Daley
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New City, Woodlawn each see 2 homicides in 1 day
RedEyeNew City and Woodlawn each saw two homicides in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. On Saturday in Woodlawn, a man was shot to death in the 6200 block of South Rhodes Avenue and a 28-year-old woman was fatally shot in the...Tags: Murder, Woodlawn (Baltimore, Maryland), Near West Side, Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois), South Lawndale
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Peoples Gas hits funding bump in $2.5 billion plan to replace pipes
Peoples Gas is digging up Chicago streets and replacing rusty, leak-prone pipes with plastic pipes that can deliver natural gas faster, safer and more efficiently. "There's pipe that went in the ground when Lincoln was president," said Willard Evans Jr.,...
Tags: Lisa Madigan, Natural Resources, Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois), Companies and Corporations, Ameren Corporation
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Listing: Chicago-area farmers markets
An early spring will bring not only May flowers to the farmers markets this year, but also an abundance of farm-fresh produce earlier than usual, while preparations for Chicago's first NATO summit will delay two downtown markets.
The Daley Plaza...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Pilsen, Chicago Mayor, Harold Washington, North Center
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Remarkable Woman: Dorene Wiese
Dorene Wiese isn't afraid of going against tradition — even though tradition means everything to her.
She was one of seven American Indians in the state of Minnesota to ever graduate high school in 1967. She went on to get her bachelor's degree and...Tags: Social Sciences, High Schools, Dining and Drinking, Colleges and Universities, Culture
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Mortgage rates push past 4%
Mortgage rates are heading up, and consumers have an improving economy to blame. The uptick, which has pushed the rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate conventional mortgage above 4 percent, may curb serial refinancers from calling their mortgage brokers. But...
Tags: Chicago Mortgages, Federal Reserve, Financial and Business Services, Banking, Chicago Tribune
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Prosecutors: Drunk man rammed SUV into car repeatedly
Tribune reporterA 25-year-old Chicago man faces a litany of charges arising out of an alleged attack Saturday night when, according to prosecutors, he repeatedly crashed his 2000 Ford Explorer into another vehicle on the city's Northwest Side. Michael Bambouyani, 25, of...Tags: Lawyers, Prosecution, Transportation Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents, Irving Park
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Portage Park neighborhood man killed, 2 wounded in overnight city shootings
Three young men were shot and wounded, one fatally, in separate late night shootings occurring across the city. The most serious shooting involved a 26-year-old man discovered with a gunshot wound to the head at about 12:50 a.m. this morning in the...
Tags: East Garfield Park, Fires, Hospitals and Clinics, Jefferson Park, Shootings
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CTA pilgrimage of 143 stations
Like some Chicago Catholics, Aidan Gillespie of Pilsen performed the Stations of the Cross last week to prepare for Easter—except he did it using CTA stations. Gillespie, 24, said he traveled the length of the CTA rail system to visit 10 churches...
Tags: Lent, Easter, Chicago Transit Authority, Pilsen, Trips and Vacations
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Brighton Park sees 2 homicides in 2 days
RedEyeBrighton Park saw two homicides in two days last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. A 13-year-old boy was shot to death Saturday in the 4600 block of South Spaulding Avenue, police said. One day earlier, a 28-year-old woman was...Tags: East Garfield Park, Murder, Humboldt Park, Chicago Lawn, Rogers Park
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Boy, 14, critically wounded in Northwest Side stabbing
Tribune reporterA 14-year-old boy was critically wounded Friday night in a stabbing in an alley in the city's Portage Park neighborhood, police said. The stabbing happened about 9:26 p.m. in an alley on the 4200 block of North Milwaukee Avenue on the Northwest Side,...Tags: Chicago Police Department
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Apr 14, 2012
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