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Chicago: Senate candidate Kirk shows his tax returns
Chicago: Crash survivor struggles with loss of best friend
Chicago: Prosecutors allege developer bribed alderman
Chicago: Injured Cicero firefighter struggles with pain and finances
Chicago: School bus driver charged with DUI while driving children
Chicago: Chicago police expanding Taser use
Chicago: Young immigrants declare illegal status
Chicago: Daley's choice for lieutenant governor
Chicago: Aurora man guilty of attempted murder
Chicago: Homeless man’s body found in St. Charles

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Chicago 11. Mar 10 16:27 PST
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Senate candidate Kirk shows his tax returns

GOP Senate nominee made more than $232,000 in 2008 according to joint filing Republican Senate nominee Mark Kirk and his now ex-wife made more than $232,000 in 2008 — the most since he became a congressman, according to 10 years worth of tax returns his campaign made available Wednesday.
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Chicago 11. Mar 10 16:00 PST
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Crash survivor struggles with loss of best friend

The father of a 17-year-old Joliet girl who survived a fatal collision in New Lenox this week said his daughter is struggling to heal from losing her best friend while overcoming injuries from the accident.
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Chicago 11. Mar 10 15:56 PST
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Prosecutors allege developer bribed alderman

Trial opens for man accused of paying off Carothers Faced with a languishing property that was being used as an illegal dumpsite, developer Calvin Boender did what he thought he had to do to get the 50-acre property rezoned: He bribed a Chicago alderman, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.
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Chicago 11. Mar 10 15:27 PST
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Injured Cicero firefighter struggles with pain and finances

Man severely hurt in fire that killed 7 must also deal with caring for daughter with Sandhoff disease Man severely hurt in fire that killed 7 must also deal with caring for daughter with Sandhoff disease.
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Chicago 11. Mar 10 14:58 PST
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School bus driver charged with DUI while driving children

Blood-alcohol level was nearly 3 times over the legal limit, authorities say A Mount Prospect school bus driver who smelled of alcohol to a co-worker managed to drop off 50 children before she was arrested Tuesday for being nearly three times over the legal limit for alcohol, police said.
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Chicago 11. Mar 10 14:56 PST
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Chicago police expanding Taser use

Announcement comes as man dies in suburbs after police use stun gun The Chicago Police Department is dramatically expanding its use of Tasers, adding several hundred more and putting them in the hands of patrol officers for the first time, officials said Wednesday.
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Chicago 11. Mar 10 14:31 PST
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Young immigrants declare illegal status

Overcoming their fear of deportation, a group of college-age immigrants publicly admitted their undocumented status at a rally at the Federal Plaza on Wednesday in hopes of putting a face on the need for comprehensive immigration reform.
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Chicago 11. Mar 10 14:28 PST
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Daley's choice for lieutenant governor

Mayor says Democratic primary’s second-place finisher should fill spot vacated by Cohen Mayor Richard Daley on Wednesday threw his support behind state Rep. Art Turner for the Democratic lieutenant governor nomination vacated by troubled Chicago pawnbroker Scott Lee Cohen.
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Chicago 11. Mar 10 13:59 PST
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Aurora man guilty of attempted murder

Defendant threw his girlfriend off bridge An Aurora man who tossed his girlfriend off a bridge and into the frigid Fox River was found guilty Wednesday of attempted murder.
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Chicago 11. Mar 10 13:58 PST
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Homeless man’s body found in St. Charles

Remains discovered near forest preserve Human remains found near a forest preserve on the west side of St. Charles have been identified as those of a homeless man, St. Charles police said Wednesday.
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