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- City employees readying for retirement are sweating a little. All four of the city's pension funds lost value last year.
- The $217.7 million deficit in Mayor Daley's 2008 budget will take some drastic measures to close.
- Chess is no longer the sport of gentlemen. Two Englewood men were shot Sunday while playing a game.
- Police are investigating the death of a Hyde Park man who fell from a building.
- Nike settles a class-action racial discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of 400 African-American employees of the Chicago Niketown store for $7.6 million.
- Southbound Red Line tracks at the Jarvis, Morse, and Loyola stations will be shut down from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. tonight through Friday for maintenance. Passengers wanting to go south at those locations are asked to take a northbound train to the next available station (um, that would be Howard, y'all), then transfer to a southbound train.
- Attorney Shawn Collins has taken on the case of two people charged with disorderly conduct, reckless conduct and unauthorized display of a sign in viewing of a highway pro bono. The sign the two hung above I-55 at the Great Western Trail read "Impeach Bush and Cheney - LIARS."
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"Southbound Red Line tracks at the Jarvis, Morse, and Loyola stations will be shut down from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. tonight through Friday for maintenance. Passengers wanting to go south at those locations are asked to take a northbound train to the next available station (um, that would be Howard, y'all), then transfer to a southbound train."
Is that right? I think you mean go south from Howard to Granville, then take a northbound train. They can't just transfer to a southbound train.
Nike denies wrongdoing but still pays out $7 million? That does not compute.
It also will create a formal mentoring program for black employees.
But not one for all employees? Why do all race-based allegations end up fostering more racism?