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Chicago City Council Outlaws Most Flavored Tobacco Vape Products
Compromise ordinance banning flavored tobacco vaping products wins City Council approval in 46-4 vote.
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Mark Konkol, recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, wrote and produced the Peabody Award-winning series "Time: The Kalief Browder Story." He was a producer, writer and narrator for the "Chicagoland" docuseries on CNN and a consulting producer on the Showtime documentary "16 Shots."
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Police Charge 18-Year Old Man With Murder Of Walgreens Employee
Sincere Williams was charged with murder in the stabbing death of 32-year old Olga Calderon while she worked at Walgreens in Wicker Park.
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Is It 'White Flight' If The Wealthy Are First To Flee Chicago?
KONKOL COLUMN: Early anecdotal reports of a downtown exodus to fair-skinned suburbs doesn't match racial-charged migration of the 1960s.
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Kentucky Added To Chicago's Coronavirus Travel Quarantine List
California and Puerto Rico were removed from Chicago's travel quarantine list this week after dropping below the coronavirus hot spot level.
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Mayor Lightfoot, Rival Ald. Beale Didn't Throw Dirt At Each Other
KONKOL COLUMN: Could Pullman National Monument ground-breaking be a sign of peace between Mayor Lightfoot and Ald. Beale? Time will tell.
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Are Feds Sniffing CPS Custodial Contract To Make Insiders Squirm?
KONKOL COLUMN: CEO Dan Ringo had an $80 million contract offer until insiders of interest to feds started asking, "Who do you know?"
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Leon Finney, Pastor, Civil Rights Leader and Developer Dead At 82
Civil Rights activist, The Rev. Dr. Leon Finney Jr., was best known in Chicago as founder of The Woodlawn Organization.
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Last Phase Of Pullman National Monument Work To Start Labor Day
Thank 4,000 striking Pullman Palace Car workers for having Monday off. Labor Day became a national holiday after the 1894 strike ended.
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Chicago Public Schools Hit Record High Graduation Rate Last Year
CPS drop out rate declined in 2019 as 5-year graduation rate climbed to record high of 82.5 percent, officials say.
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Chicago Mayor Decries Trump Threat To Defund Democratic Cities
Mayor Lightfoot said if Trump White House is "foolish enough to think they can unilaterally cut off our funding," she'll see him in court.
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New $330 Million Progam Aims To Add 7,000 Affordable Apartments
Chicago officials partnered with Community Investment Corporation to fund 7,000 affordable housing apartments on South Side and West Side.
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Indiana Could Be Added To Chicago's Quarantine Order Next Week
Chicago public health officials added Hawaii, Nebraska and North Carolina to travel list of states requiring residents to self-quarantine.
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Chicago Police Say They're Prepared For Weekend Protests Downtown
Police Supt. Brown says Chicago "cannot be a city that allows mob action," and officers are ready to take swift action against agitators.
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Chicago Public Schools Chief Of Staff Charged With Lying To FBI
Pedro Soto, who was charged with lying to the feds Thursday, has political ties to FBI mole Ald. Danny Solis and former Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
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Chicago Board Of Education Votes To Keep Police In Schools, Again
In a split vote, Chicago Board of Education approves $12 million in funding to provide student resource officers at 17 schools.
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Chicago Schedules Public Safety Drill Downtown Thursday Night
Expect traffic disruptions downtown between 6 and 9 p.m. Thursday as city conducts a "public safety drill."
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Proposal Could End Ban On Women Exposing Breasts At Chicago Bars
Chicago's City Council License Committee forwarded a proposal ending the ban on women exposing bare breasts at places liquor is sold.
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Chicago Drops Arizona, North Carolina From Travel Quarantine List
Chicagoans traveling to and from South Dakota must now quarantine for 14 days, public health officials say.
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Win $5,000 For Re-imaging Winter Dining Outside In Chicago
Chicago officials announce a contest aimed at finding creative ways to keep restaurants serving outdoors safely amid the coronavirus crisis.
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Mail Delays Prescriptions Sent To Cook County Health Patients
In some ZIP codes more than 50 percent of Cook County Health patients had their medication delayed in July due to Postal Service woes.
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