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Bystander wounded in St. Patrick's Day shooting dies
Close friends say Zenon Santiago Hernandez was a prodigious worker, handling two full-time jobs often seven days a week. He sent as much of his pay as he could to his family in his native Mexico. Nearly three months ago, while serving hot dogs, pork...
Tags: Mexico City, Mexico, Hospitals and Clinics, Shootings, St. Patrick's Day
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Cecil Fain, 1933-2013
Chicago bluesman Cecil Fain performed under the name Piano C. Red, leading his Flat Foot Boogie band at both the old and the new Maxwell Street Market as well as blues venues all over the Chicago area until a robber's gunshot left him with paraplegia....
Tags: Entertainment Events, Chicago Blues Fest, Roosevelt University, Music Industry, Music
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Is it curtains for Central Park Theatre?
In a sea of empty lots in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood sits a faded relic that is one of the most historically significant American movie theaters still standing. When it opened in 1917, the red-brick, three-story Central Park Theatre was...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Judaism, Architecture, Dwayne Johnson, Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois)
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Summer to-do list
Take the challenge The big finish As running events go, few set themselves apart like the Soldier Field 10 Mile. The 10th-anniversary course makes its way along the lakefront and then finishes, spectacularly, on the 50-yard line of Soldier Field, with...
Tags: Glen Hansard, Chicago White Sox, Swimming, Entertainment, Soldier Field
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'Chicago Fire' creator talks about renewal, spinoff possibilities
Last week NBC announced it is renewing its Wednesday night drama "Chicago Fire" for a second season. The cast and crew are still in town but not for long; they're scheduled to wrap the Season 1 finale on Saturday. They'll be back in mid-July to begin work...
Tags: Dick Wolf , NBC (tv network), David Eigenberg, Movies, True Blood (tv program)
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3 dead, 17 wounded in shootings across Chicago overnight
Tribune reportersAt least three people were killed and 17 wounded in shootings across Chicago overnight as the city saw its warmest weather in seven months. In one of the fatal shootings, three men were shot in a parking lot across the street from the headquarters of the...Tags: Chicago Fire Department, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Hospitals and Clinics, Harvey, Shootings
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Chicago Overnight Crime Report
Tribune reporterA wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • At least three people were killed and 17 wounded in shootings across Chicago overnight as the city saw its warmest weather in seven months. In one of the fatal shootings, three men were...Tags: South Chicago, Shootings
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Kevin Coval on his new poetry collection, "Schtick"
It must have been tempting for poet Kevin Coval to read from his own work during “Chicago Classics,” which took place one Friday night in late March in packed-with-people Preston Bradley Hall at the Chicago Cultural Center. That is because...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Religion and Belief, Judaism, Carl Sandburg, Common
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Review: "Brothers Emanuel" by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Three brothers — Ezekiel, Rahm and Ari Emanuel — each went on to great career accomplishment: Zeke as a bioethicist; Ari as a powerful Hollywood talent agent; and Rahm, of course, as White House chief of staff for President Obama before...
Tags: John F. Harris, Executive Branch, Elections, Politics, Rahm Emanuel
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Interview: 'Hardcore Pawn: Chicago' stars buy, sell and raise hell
Here's the thing about brothers and "Hardcore Pawn: Chicago" co-stars Randy and Wayne Cohen: They fight a lot — and even came to blows this year — but they always make up. And once they're done patching things up, they tend to go right...
Tags: Chicago Restaurants, Celebrities, Lou Malnati's Pizzeria, Pizzas, McCormick Place
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Critically injured boy among 5 wounded in 3 separate West Side attacks
Tribune reporterA 15-year-old boy shot in the head and a 44-year-old restaurant employee who was shot in the neck while working are among five people injured this afternoon in three separate West Side shootings. At 4:07 p.m. a shooting erupted outside of the Original...Tags: Chicago Fire Department, Hospitals and Clinics, Shootings, Chicago Tribune
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The escape artist
Chicago Tribune reporterTommy O'Connor was a bad man, a coldblooded killer who prowled Chicago as Prohibition descended. He was convicted of murdering one person — a police officer — and likely shot dead at least two more, including his best friend. That's why they...Tags: Lawyers, Prisons, Chicago Restaurants, Prosecution, Rogers Park
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