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Service honors victims of school fire
Found: 1 Hour 34 Minutes ago
Southtown Star - Fifty years is a long time to cry. Della Maffiola wept again Sunday as she remembered her son Joseph, killed in the Our Lady of the Angels school fire 50 years ago today. "It feels like yesterday,'' she said.
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Durbin to ask Bush to commute Ryan sentence
Found: 1 Hour 41 Minutes ago
Southtown Star - Despite receiving an "outpouring" of "overwhelmingly negative" feedback from the public, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is asking President Bush to commute former Gov. George Ryan's sentence to time served. In an announcement this afternoon, Durbin said his decision isn't political, but comes after discussions with Ryan's wife, Lura Lynn Ryan.
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Dolton's first black mayor Bill Shaw dies
Found: 4 Days 2 Hours 53 Minutes ago
Southtown Star - William “Bill” Shaw, the first black mayor of south suburban Dolton, died Wednesday after a four-year battle with colon cancer. Mr. Shaw was 71 years old. He died in his Dolton home at 8:45 p.m., surrounded by family and loved ones, according to family spokesman Sean Howard. Mr. Shaw was hospitalized for his cancer when he won re-election as Dolton’s mayor for the third time in 2005.
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Reese site again an Olympic Village possibility
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Southtown Star - It looks like the on-again, off-again plan to move the $1.1 billion Olympic Village to the campus of Michael Reese Hospital could be back on again. Ald. Toni Preckwinkle (4th) disclosed Thursday that Chicago 2016 Chairman Pat Ryan is closing in on an agreement with Medline Industries, owner of the 37-acre Reese site.
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Legislature OKs $90 million for horse-racing industry
Found: 1 Week 3 Days 9 Hours 8 Minutes ago
Southtown Star - SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois' horse-racing industry will get to keep a multimillion dollar subsidy from the state's most profitable casinos for three more years under legislation now headed to Gov. Blagojevich.
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Mexican legend comes to life for schoolkids
Found: 1 Week 3 Days 9 Hours 8 Minutes ago
Southtown Star - Some of the younger grade-schoolers yawned and fidgeted as the 93-year-old man with the thick white mustache and a cane walked stiffly toward the microphone inside the Orozco Community Academy gym Thursday afternoon. The children were perhaps a little too young to realize they were looking at a piece of living history -- the man believed to be the last surviving child of Mexican revolutionary leader and folk hero Pancho Villa.
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Police: Murder preceded 3-car accident
Found: 1 Week 3 Days 14 Hours 33 Minutes ago
ABC 7 - Police in suburban Westmont are investigating the village's first homicide in three years....
Police: Murder proceeded 3-car accident
Found: 1 Week 3 Days 23 Hours 24 Minutes ago
ABC 7 - Police in suburban Westmont are investigating the village's first homicide in three years....
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