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Low turnout in race to replace ex-Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
Tribune reportersChicago election officials report turnout is low in the primary election to find a successor to disgraced former Democratic U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. As of 1:45 p.m., turnout was about 11 percent among sampled city precincts, according to the...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Anthony Beale, Local Government, Chicago Elections
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George Ryan home after spending just hours at halfway house
Tribune reportersFormer Gov. George Ryan spent just hours at a halfway house on Chicago’s West Side this morning before he was released and sent to his Kankakee home, where he will be on home confinement until he completes his 6 ˝-year sentence. Ryan will not...Tags: Illinois Elections, Prisons, Michigan Avenue, The Salvation Army, George Ryan
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Democrats can't agree on successor to Jesse Jackson Jr.
Tribune reporterDemocratic leaders spent four hours Saturday listening to 16 candidates audition for the party's endorsement to replace former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., but were unable to solidify behind one contender. After 90 minutes of deliberations, South Side...Tags: Jesse Jackson, Jr., Flossmoor, Matteson, Cook County Board of Commissioners, Thornton
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Trial opens in 2009 escape of bank robbery suspect
After quietly slipping out of three sets of restraints and snatching the gun from one of two law enforcement officers taking him to court in 2009, Robert Maday launched a two-day crime spree with a chilling threat, federal prosecutors alleged Wednesday at...
Tags: Bank Robbery, Justice System, Anita Alvarez, Crime, Law and Justice, West Chicago
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Momence man charged with sexual assault near Rogers Park Red Line stop
Tribune reportersAn 18-year-old Kankakee County man has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman near the Morse CTA Red Line stop, according to police. James Shorty, of Momence, was charged in connection with the attack about 5:45 a.m. on Dec. 19. He was identified...Tags: Justice System, Chicago Transit Authority, Crime, Law and Justice, Abusive Behavior, Momence
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Returning the favor
Not long after she came home to find her entire front yard raked by an anonymous Samaritan, Alisa Blanchette buckled her four children into the car and headed toward the McDonald's in Manteno. We're going to do something nice for someone else, she...Tags: Auction Service, Breast Cancer, Amusement and Theme Parks, Health Treatments, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Returning the favor
Not long after she came home to find her entire front yard raked by an anonymous Samaritan, Alisa Blanchette buckled her four children into the car and headed toward the McDonald's in Manteno. We're going to do something nice for someone else, she told...
Tags: Auction Service, Breast Cancer, Amusement and Theme Parks, Health Treatments, Walt Disney World Resort
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Snowfall hits north and west suburbs, advances to downtown area
Tribune reporterThe first winter storm of the season is moving in fast and has hit the north and western suburbs with a fury as downed power lines were reported in McHenry County. Around 5 p.m., ComEd officials said more than 24,000 people were without power, most...Tags: Illinois Department of Transportation, Air Transportation Delays, Air Transportation Industry, Woodstock (McHenry, Illinois), Southern U.S. Storms (2011)
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ON THE TRAIL : Ski season begins up north
Nevermind what you see outside of your window. The ski season has begun in northern Michigan, where downhill resorts opened this past week, including Boyne Highlands, Boyne Mountain and Nubs Nob, along with Pine Knob in the town of Clarkston, halfway...
Tags: Everglades, Cross Country Skiing, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Transportation, Movies
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Police investigate if motorist found dead off I-57 is missing Kankakee-area man
Authorities are trying to determine whether a man found dead in a pickup truck that had gone into a tree is a man reported missing after leaving his South Side job to head home to Kankakee in August. Richard Roberts, 47, of St. Michael's Drive in...
Tags: Missing Persons, Bourbonnais, Cook County Forest Preserve
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2 charged with growing nearly 1,500 pot plants in rural Kankakee
Two Chicago men face federal charges after a police plane spotted nearly 1,500 marijuana plants growing in Kankakee County. Gerardo Correa, 29, and Jose Haro-Gutierrez, 29, have been charged with possession of more than 1,000 marijuana plants with intent...
Tags: Pembroke (Kankakee, Illinois), Drug Trafficking, Prosecution
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Rep. Jackson calls it quits
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., the ambitious political heir to a powerful Chicago family whose once promising future collapsed amid federal ethics investigations and a diagnosis of mental illness, resigned Wednesday from the South Side congressional seat he held...
Tags: Illinois Elections, Illinois Governor, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Sex Crimes, Justice System
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Sep 13, 2012
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