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Midday News Links

By Staff in News on Jul 5, 2011 5:40PM

  • 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]