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In wake of CPS closings, 2 principals become friends
The first time they met, neither of the Far South Side school principals was sure what to expect. Taquia Hylton's school, West Pullman Elementary, is slated to be shut as part of the district's plan to close 54 schools in June. Its approximately 300...
Tags: West Pullman, Parenting, Teachers, Pullman, Students
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Bellwood man charged in 2011 killing on West Side
Tribune reporterA Bellwood man was ordered held in lieu of $2 million bail Sunday over the alleged 2011 killing of a rival Chicago drug dealer on the city's West Side. Deshawn Neal, 29, was arrested Saturday and charged with first-degree murder in connection with the...Tags: Murder, Shootings, East Garfield Park
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Executive profile: Maria Green
Maria Green let silence fall over a weekly meeting before weighing in on the question of how Illinois Tool Works should supply information to board members inquiring about vote tallies at annual meetings. The pause prompted staff members to share...
Tags: Arts, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Economy, Business and Finance, Sales, Colleges and Universities
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Hearing officers criticize CPS plans
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push to shut 53 city elementary schools ran into an unexpected buzz saw of criticism Tuesday from hearing officers hired to vet the process, with several raising doubts about the wisdom of the proposals and recommending against 13...
Tags: House Building, Chicago Mayor, Students, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Hearing officers oppose 13 of closings planned by CPS
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s push to shut 53 city elementary schools ran into an unexpected buzz saw of criticism Tuesday from hearing officers hired to vet the process, with several raising doubts about the wisdom of the proposals and recommending...
Tags: House Building, Chicago Mayor, Students, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Cops: Man charged after pointing shotgun at police
Tribune reporterA man has been charged after he pointed a shotgun at police and was wounded by an officer -- one of two police-involved shootings over the weekend. Daniel D. Jackson Jr., 31, of the 400 block of North Central Park Avenue, was shot in the arm around 4:30...Tags: Shootings
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8 wounded in shootings across Chicago
Tribune reportersEight people were shot Thursday afternoon and Friday morning from the Old Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side to the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said. A man, 34, was dropped off at Our Lady of the Resurrection...Tags: John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, West Pullman, Chicago Police Department, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Hospitals and Clinics
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Reports blister Chicago psychiatric hospital for youths
When Garfield Park Hospital opened in February, the child psychiatric center promised to treat Chicago's toughest kids, including young gang members and sexually aggressive adolescents. But Illinois officials stopped sending juvenile state wards to...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals, Psychiatry, Mental Health
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1 dead, 8 wounded in shootings across city
Tribune reportersA 36-year-old man was killed early Sunday morning and eight others wounded since Saturday afternoon in shootings from the Northwest Side to the Southeast Side. The man killed was shot about 6:05 a.m. in the 2500 block of West Division Street in the...Tags: Cynthia Soto, South Shore, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Oak Park, Hospitals and Clinics
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Officials: Man points shotgun at officers, is shot by police on West Side
One man was wounded by police after he pointed a shotgun at officers from his car in the East Garfield Park neighborhood this morning, officials said. No police officers were injured and the man, 30, who was holding a sawed-off shotgun when police fired...
Tags: John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Hospitals and Clinics, Shootings
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Man, 41, wounded in West Side shooting
A 41-year-old man was shot in the West Garfield Park neighborhood early Friday morning. He was shot him in the leg around 1 a.m. in the 300 block of North Cicero Avenue. The man "heard shots and felt pain," police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai...
Tags: Shootings
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