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Erin Nekervis

State Farm said they've received 4,000 automotive and 600 homeowner claims related to last week's plague of hail. [Chicago Breaking Business]
Police have pulled the body of a missing 29-year-old Orland Park boater from Lake Michigan. [Chicago Breaking News]
The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District is looking at adding a Hammond-to-Dyer route to the South Shore Line. [Times of Northwest Indiana]
Trading volume at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was up 22 percent in June. [Crain's]
Hot Dog wars in Worth. [CBS Chicago]
Another Amtrak employee files a lawsuit in connection to the fatal crash in Nevada two weeks ago. [NBC Chicago]

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By Staff in News on July 5, 2011 12:40 PM

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BlueFairlane

About 80% of the cars in my neighborhood (including mine) are now full of little hail dings. Fortunately, mine's a 13-year-old Honda with 200,000 miles that's already been beat all to hell, so I don't care, but there are a lot of other people who do. This is going to be a lot of money.