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![<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><strong>Headlines for Friday, May 24, 2013</strong></strong></span></strong></strong></span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-05/53720860-12093801.jpg "<span style="font-size: medium;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><strong>Headlines for Friday, May 24, 2013</strong></strong></span></strong></strong></span>")
Headlines for Friday, May 24, 2013
SLAYER: Metallica, System Members Speak at Hanneman Memorial
Metallica's Robert Trujillo and System of a Down's Shavo Odadjian joined Slayer's Kerry King as speakers at Thursday's memorial service for...Tags: Destroyer (music group), Marvel Entertainment, Inc., Carney (music group), My Darkest Days (music group), Ben Gibbard
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Latest Michigan news, sports, business and entertainment
FARRAKHAN-JEWS Conyers hits Farrakhan 'racist, anti-Semitic' talk DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan congressman has apologized after attending Louis Farrakhan's appearance at a Detroit church during which the Nation of Islam leader Detroit made anti-...Tags: Human Interest, Barack Obama, Debbie Stabenow, The Detroit News, India
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Troubled Dolton senior center a burden on taxpayers
The Dorchester Senior Center in the south suburbs has a steady stream of visitors: attentive relatives, busy repairmen and, lately, inquisitive federal investigators. The five-story, village-owned building that looks out over a dreary interstate has...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Credit Ratings, Construction, Renovation, Wage Contract Issues
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Fewer than 5 CPS schools expected to be spared
Pressured for months by teachers, community leaders and aldermen, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's hand-picked school board is nonetheless expected on Wednesday to approve closing all but a few of the 53 elementary schools the administration wants to shut down....
Tags: Walter Burnett, Jr., Chicago Teachers Union, Rahm Emanuel, Health and Safety at School, Students
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Red Line rehab poses political challenge for Emanuel
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday lauded Chicago Transit Authority workers for their "flawless" rollout of a five-month Red Line reconstruction that has shuttle buses replacing train service. So far, they're breathing a sigh of relief at City Hall. The...
Tags: Englewood, Rahm Emanuel, Pat Dowell, Metra, Elections
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Recount coming in Park Ridge 6th Ward race
After being defeated by just 20 votes in the race for Park Ridge's 6th Ward alderman, Vincent LaVecchia requested that the Cook County clerk's office hold a discovery recount. "The integrity of the vote is extremely important," said LaVecchia, who...
Tags: Park Ridge, Voting, Business, Elections, Politics
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Forecast for L.A.'s mayor race: paltry turnout
More than 2 million people can vote for mayor of Los Angeles. But if history is a reliable guide, as many as 1.6 million of them will skip Tuesday's election. That low turnout could mean that the winner will garner fewer votes than any newly elected...
Tags: Richard Riordan, Primaries, Eric Garcetti, Barack Obama, Wendy Greuel
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Romeoville mayor, board settle in after election
Romeoville Mayor John Noak has been sworn back into office with his four running mates. "It's nice that we don't have to change the name plates," he joked. "I am one of the luckiest mayors in the state of Illinois because I get to serve with the best...
Tags: Local Elections, Steve McMichael, Elections, Politics
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Orland Park's holds inauguration day
There was standing room only inside Orland Park's board room Monday where officials decked the space with red, white and blue bunting and welcomed Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke to help conduct their inauguration into office. Family,...
Tags: Special Olympics, Civil and Public Service, Crime, Law and Justice, Anne M. Burke, Illinois Supreme Court
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School in Prague to be named after Mayor Cermak
Eighty years ago, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was assassinated, an anniversary that some, like Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, say does not receive enough attention. But on Thursday, a school in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, will remember Cermak by...
Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Assassinations, Czech Republic, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago City Council
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By the numbers, how Rahm could lose in 2015
Change of SubjectFriday's print column A new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows that, halfway through his first term, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's overall disapproval rating is up 11 percentage points over a year ago. Four in 10 Chicago voters — and nearly half of the...... -
Voice of the People, May. 11
Promoting gambling Mayor Rahm Emanuel has made a video using the plight of Chicago's schoolchildren to promote the building of a casino in Chicago. This resurrects sad memories for many of us of the Illinois Lottery's self-justification in 1974 that...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Human Interest, Naperville, Rahm Emanuel, Social Services
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