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Vita Food Products recalls smoked salmon
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago-based Vita Food Products has recalled about 8,080 packages of Vita Classic Premium Sliced Smoked Atlantic Nova Salmon. The product could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, which can cause fatal infections in...Tags: Idaho, Florida, Oregon, Product Recalls, Georgia
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FACTBOX-U.S. coal-fired power plants scheduled to shut
ReutersMay 16 (Reuters) - U.S. power companies plan to shut or convert over 50,000 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired plants over the next several years as cheap natural gas prices and strict environmental rules have made coal the more expensive option in some areas....Tags: Electricity Production and Distribution, Bay Shore, Niles, Salem (Salem, Virginia), Coal
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Night Out in the Parks: Chicago announces summer activities
Tribune reporterCircus performers and Shakespearean actors helped Mayor Rahm Emanuel announce Tuesday that the city is doubling the number of performances and cultural events at its parks this summer. Amid lush greenery and newly bloomed flowers at Garfield Park...Tags: Rogers Park, Music, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, Gardens and Parks
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Police release sketch of man in sex assault near Edgewater bus stop
Chicago police have released a sketch of a man in connection with the sexual assault of a woman near an Edgewater bus stop. The attack occurred around 2 p.m. Thursday when a 22-year-old woman was approached by a man as she sat at the bus stop in the...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Sex Crimes
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Chicago overnight report
Tribune reporterA wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • Police are investigating after a man reportedly forced a woman from an Edgewater bus stop last week and sexually assaulted her. Read more • The Cook County medical examiner's...Tags: Shootings, Abusive Behavior
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Chicago Crime Overnight Report
Tribune reporterA wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • A briefcase left at the Thorndale CTA stop prompted police to stop Red Line traffic in both directions until 4:45 a.m. Someone had left the briefcase at the Red Line stop at 1100 W....Tags: Shootings, Avondale, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Transit Authority, Irving Park
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Suspicious package closes Red Line for hours Friday morning
A briefcase left at the Thorndale CTA stop prompted police to stop Red Line traffic in both directions until 4:45 a.m. Someone had left the briefcase at the Red Line stop at 1100 W. Thorndale Avenue in the Edgewater Beach neighborhood. A person...
Tags: Chicago Police Department, Chicago Transit Authority
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CSO's Citizen Musician seeks right note
A little more than two years ago, the curtain lifted on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra-led Citizen Musician initiative, and CSO Association President Deborah Rutter told an overflow crowd at the Chicago Cultural Center: “All of you are citizen...
Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Woodlawn (Bronx, New York), Hospitals and Clinics, South Shore, Music Industry
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Part 1: History, grown locally
Legendary Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill famously coined the phrase "All politics is local," but for dedicated staff and volunteers at historical societies across the city and suburbs, so is all history. They are the ones who keep the flame of the...
Tags: Orange County Regional History Center, Western Springs, Water Supply, Metra, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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A screen's-eye view of Chicago
Chicago has been involved in filmmaking since the technology's very beginnings in the early 1900s, when some of the world's first movie studios operated here. From those early days, when neighborhood kids would sneak onto the Selig Polyscope Co. lot at...Tags: Bobby Cannavale, Rupert Everett, Rockefeller Chapel, Kathy Bates, Billy Goat Tavern
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Purim a favorite holiday for kids
Turtles and goldfish. If you are Jewish and of a certain age, these may be among your most vivid memories of the Purim festival: a riot of costumes, noisemaking and carnivals that are part and parcel of the celebration of the inspiring story of how...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Judaism, Customs and Tradition, Holidays
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Problem Solver: 1 infraction, 2 tickets, 2 rulings
It was late in the evening of Nov. 30 when Michael Plantz realized his license plates were set to expire the next morning. Hoping to ward off a ticket, the Edgewater neighborhood resident logged on to the Illinois secretary of state website and...
Tags: Punishment, Jon Yates, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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