Extra Extra: Suspicious Package Forces State Street Closure

By Chuck Sudo in News on Dec 17, 2014 11:30PM

Photo credit: ABC 7/Twitter

• Chicago Police shut down State Street from Randolph to Lake this afternoon after a suspicious package was discovered. Everything is clear now. [ABC 7/Twitter]
• ABC 7 will produce a 7 p.m. newscast for WCIU TV featuring anchors Hosea Sanders and Linda Yu, sportscaster Jim Rose and WLS TV's newest hire, meteorologist Cheryl Scott. The broadcast premieres Jan. 12[Robert Feder]
• That ABC 7/The U newscast will run opposite WTTW's "Chicago Tonight," which host Phil Ponce welcomes. [Feder]
• The owner of a Bridgeport corner grocery said the person who robbed his shop recently was a regular customer. [DNAInfo Chicago]
• The restoration of relations between the United States and Cuba has Cuban-Americans in Chicago ecstatic. [DNAInfo Chicago]

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