Area Coca-Cola Plant Workers Vote to Strike: Patch PM

Coca-Cola Workers Vote to Picket

Union workers at two Chicago-area Coca-Cola factories could strike as early as Wednesday over claims of bad-faith bargaining on the part of the beverage giant. Members of Teamsters Local 727 - which represents 319 production and warehouse workers at the plants in Niles and Alsip - voted 226-23 Sunday night to picket after its contract with Coca-Cola expires at midnight. » read more

’I Have Your Back,’ Mayor Says Before Firing His Top Cop

Garry McCarthy said he wouldn’t resign, and welcomed the mayor’s frequent statements of public support in recent days. ”I have your back,” Rahm Emanuel said. On Tuesday morning, Mayor Emanuel did an about face and demanded the police superintendent’s resignation. McCarthy was stunned. After a week of protests and calls for McCarthy’s job from politicians, clergy and activists following a rising tide of violence and a police officer accused of murder in the shooting death of a teen, Emanuel let the top cop go. » read more

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• Magnificent Mile Fills With Laquan McDonald Protesters on Black Friday
• Chicago’s Black Leaders Demand Top Cop’s Firing

Donnie Wahlburg and ‘Wahlburgers’ Crew Visit School of Rock

• Donnie stopped in at the Geneva School of Rock with his nephew, who has aspirations of becoming a musician and hopes to receive vocal coaching from the local business.

Would You Pay $75 for a ‘Star Wars’ Ticket?

• 10 tickets are being sold for a Bolingbrook screening.

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• Drunken Driver Sparks Down Street Without Front Tires: Police
• Frontier Airlines Hiring 500 Flight Attendants in Chicago
• Sports Writer Mitch Albom to Sign Copies of New Book in Naperville
• Transgender Locker-Room Case Could Be Settled Soon

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