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By Chuck Sudo in News on Aug 4, 2011 10:10PM
- DeVry, in an effort to expand its healthcare program offerings, buys a Caribbean medical school for $235 million. [Crain's]
- The mother of 13-year-old Darius "Bay Bay" Brown, who died from a gunshot suffered while he was playing basketball, said he died doing what he loved best. [Sun-Times]
- A suspected pipe bomb was discovered in Naperville. [Chicago Breaking News]
- Despite a projected budget shortfall of $612 million, Chicago Public Schools is meting out $10 million for the Safe Passage program. [Chicago News Cooperative]
- Architect Doug Garofalo, who would have designed and built housing for the 2016 Summer Olympics if Chicago won the right to host the games, passed away. [Lee Bey/WBEZ]
- Paul Konerko will be back in the White Sox lineup tonight against the Yankees. [CBS Chicago]
- The body of Jeremy Asbell was pulled from a Lemont retention pond. Asbell went missing when his canoe overturned Monday. [ABC 7]
- Even though unemployment hovers slightly above 9 percent, jobless claims declined in July. [AP]
