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CHICAGO (AP) _ Mayor Richard Daley is calling the violence that occurred blocks away from the Taste of Chicago isolated incidents, contending it's impossible for police to prevent gang members from attending such events.
A man was killed and several others injured Thursday in shootings blocks from the festival following the pre-Independence Day fireworks display.
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CHICAGO (AP) _ Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is shuffling his cabinet, including the appointment of a new fire commissioner.
Daley said Thursday he is naming First Deputy Fire Commissioner John W. Brooks as the city's new fire chief.
If approved by the City Council, Brooks would be the city's second African-American fore commissioner.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The Illinois Department of Public Health says the state has its first cases of West Nile virus in birds for 2008.
Doctor Damon Arnold, director of the state public health department, said Thursday that the crows were collected on June 24th in Rockford.
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CHICAGO (AP) _ The city of Chicago is expanding its surveillance cameras from high crime spots and red-light runners to motorists who block the city's street sweepers.
Mayor Richard Daley on Wednesday introduced an ordinance to the City Council that calls for the installation of cameras on street sweepers.
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CHICAGO (AP) _ The family of a teenage girl missing since January is urging the Chicago Police Department to increase their investigation into her disappearance.
The family says police believe Yasmin Acree ran away from home. But the girl's mother, Rose Starnes, says there are many reasons her daughter wouldn't run away, including her excitement about starting her first job.
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UIC student robbed
On Wednesday, July 9 a female UIC student was the victim of a purse snatch robbery. At 10:45 p.m. the student was robbed by two male teenagers in the 1200 block of West Lexington. The robbers approached the student from behind, struggling shortly with her before obtaining the purse and fleeing the scene.
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