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By Chuck Sudo on Jul 31, 2007 1:55AM

- 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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