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2018年11月29日 星期四

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November 29, 2018

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Chicago Archdiocese shares plans to merge several South Side parishes, schools

Thursday, Nov 29

South Side parishioners spoke of lifelong connections to parishes and schools in the Bridgeport, Canaryville and Chinatown neighborhoods as they joined a standing room-only crowd at St. Barbara Church to hear a Chicago Archdiocese plan to combine several of the local institutions.

Mayoral candidate Bill Daley says Chicago should consider a commuter tax

Chicago's next mayor will have to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars in additional annual payments to the city's public employee pension funds, and candidate Daley said he's studying whether those who work in the city but live in the suburbs should help foot the bill.

Starved Rock killer falls one vote short of parole after nearly 60 years in prison

Nearly six decades after three Riverside women were murdered while hiking at Starved Rock State Park, the former lodge dishwasher convicted of the infamous crime has again been denied his freedom.

Domestic violence and guns in Mercy Hospital shooting: 'It wasn't about the ring. It was about her leaving him.'

The mass shooting at Mercy Hospital is just one of many stories, happening every day, involving the intersection of domestic violence and firearms, says a longtime domestic violence advocate.

New documents reveal how Sterigenics, other companies were allowed to vent cancer-causing gas into communities

After a series of explosions at medical sterilization plants during the late 1990s, federal safety officials urged Sterigenics International and other companies to overhaul the way they handled highly volatile and extremely dangerous ethylene oxide gas. Instead of following through on some of the safety recommendations, the companies persuaded President George W. Bush's administration in 2001 to relax clean air regulations so sterilization facilities could bypass pollution-control equipment and vent the cancer-causing gas directly into the air, according to memos and other documents.

Video shows cabbie suffering fatal blow from 'roundhouse kick' in West Loop attack

The family of a 64-year-old cab driver from Pakistan hopes surveillance footage of their father's attacker brings justice.

Opponents of legal marijuana in Illinois say it would amount to companies 'pimping' black, Hispanic customers

Anti-marijuana groups are warning that legalization will allow white corporate exploitation of minority customers, comparing its effects to those of alcohol and tobacco.

'Lovable losers' no more: For Northwestern Wildcats fans gearing up for Big Ten title game, winning hasn't gotten old

Northwestern's football team will make its first appearance in the Big Ten championship Saturday. An anonymous donor and the university are paying for a bus ride, meals and tickets for about 3,400 students — nearly half of the school's undergraduate population.

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