Two people are in critical condition after a gas explosion destroyed their home on the Southwest side yesterday.
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Those heavy storms that hit the area this summer might trigger some support from ComEd for customers.
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Smoke was reported at the Blue Line Logan Square station. Shuttles are running from California to Jefferson Park.
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While Mayor Emanuel talks about cracking down on city employees abusing sick time and vacation days, an Andersonville water main crew held an impromptu grilling session at work.
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White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley said he wants to resign after the 2012 election.
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Pullman was named one of America's great neighborhoods by the American Planning Association.
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President Obama continued selling his jobs plan today, calling it "insurance against a recession."
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Costco missed their fourth-quarter revenue projections so they're raising membership fees ten percent.
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A marketing sting by the Cook County Sheriff's Office nabs more than 100 fugitives.
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Immunologist and geneticist Bruce Beutler, a Chicago-born doctor who earned his M.D. at the University of Chicago, is one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
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The Illinois Tollway said it has caught as many as a dozen employees stealing up to $25,000 in tolls and has begun prosecuting several of them.
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George Guirsch, the elderly man who shot and paralyzed Chicago Police officer Jim Mullen in 1996, passed away in prison yesterday.
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Denny's will see your KFC Double Down and raise you a Mac N' Cheese Big Daddy Patty Melt.
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Today's closing post is an all sports roundup, including more drama on the South Side of town.
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A Northwest side man is in deep shit after allegedly holding a woman he met at an anime convention hostage in his home for two months.
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Jacob Nodarse is expected to accept a plea bargain today in a March 2010 Darien triple murder.
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Ben Joravsky asks: how can Chicagoans care about Mayor Emanuel's assault on teachers if they're so miserable?

