Also, City Council Black Caucus chair Roderick Sawyer criticizes Garry McCarthy for being “disrespectful to black people.”
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Shootings and homicides decrease as carjackings surge, and other Chicago news
Also, Chicago matches snowfall record with nine straight days of measurable snow.
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Poll: Daniel Biss catching up to front-runner J.B. Pritzker in gubernatorial primary after wiretap controversy, and other Chicago news
Also, Canadian prime minister Trudeau wouldn’t let David Axelrod push him into discussing Trump.
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Arrests for marijuana in Chicago hit a historic low in 2017, and other Chicago news
Also, it’s so cold that even the Navy Pier Ferris wheel closed.
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Opponent calls Rauner’s move into Quincy veterans’ home a ‘cynical and transparent publicity stunt,’ and other Chicago news
Also, it’s so cold that even rats are freezing to death.
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Bruce Rauner: Congressional GOP tax plan ‘punishing’ for Illinois, and other Chicago news
Also, more than 600 complaints have come in about landlords breaking the city’s heat ordinance.
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Report: George Papadopoulos told Australian diplomat that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton, and other Chicago news
Also, the cold caused a glass panel to crack in the new Apple flagship store.
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Analyzing Rahm Emanuel’s rocky and lucky 2017, and other Chicago news
Also, the miserable sub-zero temperatures and wind chills are expected to last through New Year’s.
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CPS will have to end current school year 20 days early without more state funding, and other Chicago news
Also, Pitchfork’s headliners are Solange, LCD Soundsystem and A Tribe Called Quest.
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Unseasonably warm February weather explained, and other Chicago news
Also, the City Council will vote on a proposed downtown street performance crackdown Wednesday.
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Rauner urges state legislators to pass the Illinois senate’s ‘grand bargain,’ and other Chicago news
Also, the list of Beard Award semifinalists is full of Chicagoans.
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Mendoza and Munger continue to spar even though the comptroller’s race is over, and other Chicago news
Also, former Mayor Daley is scheduled for deposition in January in a Jon Burge-related torture lawsuit.
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Illinois’s prison population dropped 9.1 percent under Rauner, and other Chicago news
Also, it was so cold Sunday that Chicago Bears QB Matt Barkley was wearing a wet suit under his uniform.
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Alderman Willie Cochran indicted by grand jury for wire fraud, bribery, and extortion charges, and other Chicago news
Also, Rahm makes a surprise pick to replace Susana Mendoza as city clerk.
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Overtime cost the Chicago Police Department more than $116 million in 2015, and other news
Also, test your constitutional law knowledge with one of Professor Barack Obama’s final exams.