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Chicago Teachers Union sets strike date for October 11

The Chicago Teachers Union leaders set a strike date of October 11 if an agreement on teachers' contracts cannot be reached.

Lakeview massage parlor owner charged with sexual assault

Duckworth and Kirk to debate downstate

Police release sketches of head found in McKinley Park lagoon

Woman's Social Security checks stop after wrongly declared dead

Authorities: School shooter killed father before rampage

Outbound Kennedy Expressway reopens near Addison after semi crash

Donald Trump campaigns in Chicago

Friends fundraise for Bucktown woman seriously injured in hit-and-run

Man lost at sea was suspect in grandfather's killing

Cards Against Humanity super PAC buys anti-Trump billboard near O'Hare

Man on run after West Side car crash

Champaign police issue warrant in University of Illinois murder

Affidavit: IN woman said she smothered abducted kids

Police: Jogger attacked on lakefront trail

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