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Midday News Links: Storms Knock Out Power In Suburbs

By Chuck Sudo in News on May 12, 2014 6:30PM

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  • Sunday's storms knocked out power to 9,000 customers in the south, southwest and western suburbs. [Sun-Times]
  • A once crime-ridden corner in Uptown has been transformed thanks to community policing. [Tribune]
  • Artist Theaster Gates made Fast Company's annual "100 Most Creative People in Business" list. [Fast Company]
  • Calumet 412 has a haunting photograph of the old Stockyards effluvia heading into the Chicago River. [Calumet 412]
  • A woman is suing House of Blues and rapper A$AP Rocky over a sloppy stage dive she claimed injured her in 2012. [Marina City Online]