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Extra Extra: Lake Shore Drive Closures For Resurfacing Begin Tonight

By Chuck Sudo in News on Sep 30, 2013 11:00PM

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  • Two to three lanes of Lake Shore Drive will be closed to traffic from Balbo to North Avenue beginning tonight for road work. [DNAInfo Chicago]
  • Mark Thomas, the owner of Taboo Tabou and The Alley, is challenging Tom Tunney for 44th Ward Alderman in 2015. [DNAInfo Chicago]
  • Federal workers protested outside Federal Plaza downtown this afternoon against a possible government shutdown. [CBS Chicago]
  • Shooting for the next Transformers film in Chicago will wrap Wednesday with "the mother of all explosions." That's a Michael Bay movie in a nutshell. [Tribune]
  • A man calling himself "Officer Franklin" and posing as a law enforcement officer to rob people on the South Side has been linked to a Friday robbery, marking the fourth robbery in the past two weeks. [Fox News Chicago]

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