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Extra Extra: Community Activist Ruth Rothstein Dies

By Jon Graef in News on Aug 4, 2013 10:05PM

  • Former head of Cook County Health System and community activist Ruth M. Rothstein died, aged 90. [Chicago Tribune]
  • Gov. Quinn signed “Rocky’s Law,” which requires school districts to provide catastrophic accident insurance for injured students. [ABC Chicago]
  • 21 people were shot so far this weekend [NBC Chicago]
  • More in the Death Grips Saga [Huff Post Chicago.]

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