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Elgin schools outline deep cuts
Elgin-based School District U-46 "dug deep" Monday, outlining potential cuts of nearly 1,100 jobs — 732 of them teaching positions — and program reductions including middle school football and art and music lessons for kindergartners. more
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Full-body scanners come to O’Hare
All airline passengers in the U.S. will eventually be required to undergo a full-body scan before boarding planes, just as metal detectors became a standard and accepted part of the screening process at airports decades ago, the federal transportation security chief in Chicago said Monday. more
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Bus driver's DUI arrest called 'districtwide failure'
Suspicions that a Mount Prospect school bus driver had been drinking on the job were brought to the attention of her supervisor the day before the driver was arrested last week, the school board president said he learned Monday. more
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Police partners retire together
Last year, Chicago police Officer Sandra La Porta wiggled Lakos' brown paw out of a narrow crack in a police-seized Escalade seconds before the SUV was engulfed by flames. more
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Playboy charged in 2009 crash that killed 2 in Florida
Ryan LeVin's reputation as reckless playboy took a darker turn Monday as the troubled scion of a wealthy Chicago-area family was charged with vehicular manslaughter in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed two British businessmen in Fort Lauderdale last year. more
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Edens Spur project will be bottleneck Photo
Roadwork expected to snarl commutes, travel. more
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Delay in Blagojevich trial opposed
Federal prosecutors oppose a bid by lawyers for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to delay his corruption trial until November. Blagojevich is charged with conspiring to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama and other misuses of his office. more
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Mayor Richard Daley names 2 to City Council
Mayor Richard Daley on Monday named a state lawmaker and a businessman with ties to a politically influential Latino group to fill two City Council vacancies, saying they stood out from among 44 applicants he interviewed after posting the jobs online. more
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Feds rest their case in developer’s bribery trial
Federal prosecutors rested their case Monday against a developer accused of bribing former Chicago Ald. Isaac "Ike" Carothers without calling the ex-alderman, despite his pleading guilty and agreeing to testify. more
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Man ran red lights before fatal Near Northwest Side crash, prosecutors say
A West Side man was charged with reckless homicide after he sped through several red lights early Saturday and smashed his van into a car, killing its driver, authorities said Monday. more
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