Extra Extra: Mayor Vows To 'Secure Our Streets' Following Bloody Weekend
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Chicago needs to "secure our streets" following a particularly bloody Memorial Day weekend marked by at least a dozen fatal shootings. [DNAinfo]
The city is getting ready to re-align the dangerous six-way intersection of Damen, Elston and Fullerton Avenues in a $60 million project. [Tribune]
CPS made a $7 million mistake in forgetting 22 schools in its contract with Aramark, the company that contracts janitorial jobs for the public schools system. [Sun-Times]
The city of Park Ridge is backing two senate bills to keep more runways open at O'Hare International Airport, in hopes that the effort will reduce air traffic congestion. [Tribune]
Dr. Leon Lederman, a retired Chicago physicist, is auctioning off his Nobel Prize, and the bidding starts at $325,000. [Tribune]
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