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A CAPS meeting on Nov. 4 for Districts 111, 112, and 113 alerted local building security managers about a]string of recent iPhone thefts in the South Loop area, and urged them to take safety precautions with the oncoming cold weather. The iPhones are taken for their SIM cards, which are then sold at small...
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Mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel on Thursday presented a list of ethics reforms he will bring to Chicago if elected mayor. Standing alongside him as he talked about cleaning up the city’s image was David Hoffman — the corruption-fighting inspector general who often embarrassed Mayor Richard Daley by calling for new ethics rules. Emanuel said...
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Bria Cross, a freshman Columbia College broadcast journalism major, has been chosen among thousands of other applicants to participate in Seventeen magazine's "Freshman 15" correspondence.
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Radio station WCRX will bring the 8th Annual “Holly Jolly Trolley” Food Drive to benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository to town on Thursday, December 9th from 8:00am until 5:00pm. The annual broadcast of the WCRX “Holly Jolly Trolley” Food Drive aims to increase awareness of the hunger problem in the community and raise...
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Scrapbook Viewing and Workshop Dan Rybicky has added a photo to the pool: We’ll be opening up Peter’s scrapbooks today, Saturday, December 4th, at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. He’ll be there with us, and I’m excited to hear how he talks people through his books. This event, which is co-sponsored...
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When 33-year-old Che “Rhymefest” Smith walks the streets of his Washington Park neighborhood, people recognize him. They call out, “Rhymefest you live in this neighborhood?” and “Oh snap, you just walking around here like you not famous,” and “You famous to us, you on TV!” For all the warm welcomes, Smith said recently in...
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On a cold, damp autumn morning in Chicago, a small group of women stands in protest outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic on the near North Side. Members of the Pro-Life Action League pray in low tones while clutching rosaries and offering fliers to the people who pass through the clinic’s doors. They make...
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The arrival of the new state-of-the-art Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw at Navy Pier, 600 East Grand Avenue, on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. will be a big time event. First the cutter will be welcomed in grand fashion by Fire and Police boats, a live military band and hundreds of students throughout...
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Crime is down, according to Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis. So why is he being scrutinized? Simply put, according to many officers, he’s not “born blue.” Crime is down 3.7 percent compared to last October, according to The Chicago Sun-Times, but Weis continues to be scrutinized. “I think he has done a lot, but...
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