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Coal power plants shuttered, ongoing health effects still unclear

Coal power plants shuttered, ongoing health effects still unclear

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finished air monitoring around the now-closed Fisk and Crawford coal plants on Dec. 7, 2012. Paul Ruesch, the on-scene coordinator for the EPA, said the agency should have the test results by the end of the month showing whether dust is blowing from the sites into the surrounding community, as […]

Sexual Assaults in South Loop

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Sexual Assaults in South Loop

A 56-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and held up at gunpoint outside her South Loop home Wednesday night, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) reported. The assailant apparently approached the victim as she was seated in her car at 14th and Clark streets, in her garage. According to a police report, he pointed a handgun at the […]

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Video: Aztec dreams on Pilsen’s walls

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Murals are a Mexican art form. In Mexico, they were part of  public art in state buildings. In Chicago, the art form continues, transformed by conditions today, and the messages the artists want to convey. Chicago murals are created outside, on walls around Pilsen. Shot and edited by Mathew Cunningham Music  “Aztec Dreaming” by Andrew […]

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