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24 min ago | CBS Local

Man Charged With Sex Trafficking For Second Time In Cook County

A man previously convicted of sex trafficking in Cook County has been charged again, this time for allegedly kidnapping a Minnesota woman and bringing her to Chicago to work in the sex trade.

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24 min ago | Chicago Sun-Times

Bike cops nab suspect in State St. robbery of woman on crutches

A woman leaning on crutches and glancing at her cell phone as she tried to hail a taxi in the Loop Tuesday evening.

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4 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Lincoln stands tall in Lincoln Park, Chicago

Besides a statue in Chicago's Grant Park , there is a Lincoln statue in Chicago's Lincoln Park .

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8 hrs ago | The Herald-News

SWAT team arrests Joliet man

A SWAT team went into an apartment Tuesday morning to arrest a man accused of shooting two men in a back yard last week.

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Tue Jun 18, 2013

Chicago Sun-Times

Eateries provide sampling for Taste of Chicago

Eight restaurant booths set up Tuesday in Daley Plaza served up an array of saliva-inducing plates to visitors craving a sampling of this year's Taste of Chicago offerings.

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Chicago Reader

VICE magazine tries to find the glamour in suicide

Camus wrote that there is only one truly serious philosophical question-and that is suicide.

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Forbes.com

Going To Techweek In Chicago? Look Casually Chic

Are you one of approximately 8,000 industry professionals attending Techweek in its founding city of Chicago next week? This 3-day innovation conference and technology expo is taking place on June 27-29th at the massive and historic, Art Deco Merchandise Mart located on the banks of the Chicago River.

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WBEZ-FM Chicago

Chicago 'TomKat' play takes on celebrity culture

Julie Dahlinger, who portrays Hollywood star Katie Holmes, acts out verbatim dialogue from a Seventeen magazine interview, as her overprotective family from Toledo, Ohio, tells the audience how Holmes got the leading role in the late 90s teen drama Dawson's Creek .

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NBC Chicago

Activists To 'TP' Chicago Public Schools' CEO

Activists plan to collect toilet paper donations outside an event featuring Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett.

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Daily Herald

Chicago park gets huge-format entertainment screen

Millennium Park chairwoman Donna LaPietra says the screen will function like a big TV and connect the pavilion with free culture, sports and entertainment from around the world.

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Chicago Reader

Reader's Agenda Tue 6/18: Millennium Park movies, One-Minute Play Festival, and Douglas Ewart

Millennium Park's summer film series is back. While there have been a couple movies shown already this year, tonight's screening of the glossy, bombastic musical Chicago -preceded by a Roger Ebert tribute-is the official kick-off event.

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Eater

Wire: Txakoholika at Fat Rice; La Colombe Coming to Wicker Park; More

For one day , Fat Rice is taking reservations. For the fifth time, extending back to the years when Abraham Conlon and Adrienne Lo ran the underground dining club X-Marx, they're holding a day-long series in conjunction with Perman Wine Selections celebrating the Spanish white wine Txakolina.

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Mon Jun 17, 2013

Chicago Tribune

22 arrested during Keystone protest

Twenty-two environmental activists who staged a sit-in to protest the expansion of the Keystone XL Pipeline that would bring crude oil from Canada to the United States were arrested as part of a planned protest this morning outside the State Department offices in the Loop, police said.

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Chicago Tribune

Chief Keef arrested minutes after pleading guilty to speeding charge

Rapper Keith Cozart, better known as Chief Keef, was arrested blocks from the Skokie Courthouse only minutes after he pleaded guilty to speeding 110 mph on the Edens Expressway last month.

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Chicago Reader

My favorite book about Chicago moviegoing

In middle school my favorite author was Daniel Pinkwater and my favorite book was The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death , which he wrote in 1982.

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Examiner.com

Chicago's senseless Father's Day shootings

For months, the city of Chicago has endured continuous rampage of senseless gun violence .

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PR-inside.com

Veggie Smoothies & Matcha Mint Chip were Clear Winners at Coffee Fest Chicago 2013

Taking first and third place in the Best New Consumable products competition, Dr. Smoothie Brands wows the judges with the new Veggie Smoothie and Match Mint Chip.

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Racked

Intelligence: Icebreaker Touchlab's Gold Coast Store Inspired by a Sheep

Months ago we broke the news that New Zealand-based performance wear brand Icebreaker Touchlab was opening it's tenth North American store in Chicago's Gold Coast.

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WAVY-TV Portsmouth

Scattered Storms, Chicago Pizza, Anda

Well as you may now knowRumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. So where was I then? Well my sister had triplets up in Chicago.

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WLS-AM Chicago

6 dead, 41 shot in weekend violence

Six men are dead and at least 41 others were wounded in gun violence across the city since Friday afternoon.

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