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 Thursday, May 3 RYAN ORI: A light rail train linking North Side neighborhoods to downtown Chicago and an extension of The 606 trail are part of a plan taking shape to accommodate the expected arrival of thousands of new residents and workers along near the Chicago River along the Lincoln Park area and Bucktown. |
| Reeling from a year of PR disasters, United Airlines has named former Obama press secretary Josh Earnest as its new spokesman. |
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| In three years, MeTV FM has become a top-10 Chicago radio station with no DJs, an eclectic oldies format and a frequency many radios can't even tune in. |
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| Life Time Fitness is headed to Oakbrook Center, helping the suburban shopping center lure workout enthusiasts beyond the mall-walking crowd. |
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| Roots has leased 11,448 square feet at 605 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago-based mall operator GGP said in a news release Thursday. |
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| Elon Musk's usually chummy relations with Wall Street just took a troubling turn after a testy call with analysts, in which he advised some investors not to buy Tesla stock. |
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| An E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce has killed someone in California, and has now sickened 121 people in 25 states — the worst such case since a 2006 outbreak in spinach, federal health officials said Wednesday. |
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| Warm weather may be here at last, but the restaurant industry will be feeling the effects of the long, harsh winter for months to come. Across the industry, the trend would amount to millions of dollars of lost revenue in 2018, experts say. |
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| The story of comedian John Oliver, one of the last Blockbuster Video stores in the nation and actor Russel Crowe's jockstrap: "[It's] the very first jockstrap memorabilia I can think of." |
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