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Extra Extra: South Lake Shore Drive Extension Almost Ready To Open

By Chuck Sudo in News on Oct 15, 2013 11:00PM

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The extension of South Lake Shore Drive from Rainbow Beach to 92nd Street, cutting through the former United Steel South Works site, is two weeks away from opening. [Tribune]
The city’s first marijuana clinic has received over 20,000 patient requests. [DNAInfo Chicago]
The trees from George Lucas’s wedding at Promontory Point are now at a Wicker Park elementary School. [DNAInfo Chicago]
Someone at NBC Chicago wants Mayor Emanuel to pardon Steve Bartman. Oy Vey! [NBC Chicago]
A 49-year-old woman and an 11-month-old girl were killed in a fire in Englewood Tuesday. [ABC 7]

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