A government audit indicates he double-dipped on tax losses tied to a Chicago skyscraper.
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Tornado touches down near Chicago’s O’Hare airport, disrupting hundreds of flights
Some 173 flights departing Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport were canceled and more than 500 were delayed.
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Shots fired at Chicago police facility, and 1 person is in custody
Officials say 1 man was taken to a hospital in critical condition but his condition has stabilized.
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Chicago hospital shooting began with demand for return of engagement ring
CHICAGO — Moments before her ex-fiance fatally shot her in the parking lot of the hospital where she worked, a Chicago doctor called 911 to report that she had spotted the man and feared for her life, police said Tuesday. As investigators tried to piece together the events that ended with the deaths of the […]
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Winthrop native among 25 ‘genius grant’ winners
CHICAGO — A violinist who organizes concerts for the homeless, a professor whose research is being used to increase access to civil justice by poor communities, an activist pastor and Winthrop native Julie Ault are among this year’s MacArthur fellows and recipients of so-called genius grants. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Thursday […]
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At least 11 killed and nearly 70 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings
Gunshots and sirens filled the streets of Chicago over the weekend. Between Friday evening and Sunday night, 63 people were shot in separate incidents, ABC 7 reported. Ten were killed in the attacks, Chicago police said. In one two-and-a-half-hour stretch, 25 people were hit in five different shootings. The grim news out of Chicago only […]
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Peter E. Schlax Sr.
AUBURN — Peter Edmund Schlax Sr., 79, of Lewiston, died peacefully Feb. 14 at Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn, surrounded by his family. Pete was born Jan. 26, 1939, in Chicago, Ill., the son of Edmund Schlax and Julie Riordan. He grew up on the rough streets of the South Side of Chicago. He graduated from […]
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Jeffrey P. Parker
BATH — Jeffrey P. Parker, 78, of High Street died Friday, Nov. 17, at his residence. He was born in Lewiston on Oct. 17, 1939, a son of Herbert H. and Jeanette B. (Brackett) Parker. He graduated from Lewiston High School in 1957 and served in the U.S. Navy from 1957 to 1960. He attended Gin […]
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Timothy Paul Dotts
AUBURN — Sweet Tim is at peace. Timothy Paul Dotts, 64, of Auburn died early Wednesday morning, July 26, at the Androscoggin Hospice House. Tim had suffered a long illness. Friends need to take comfort knowing Tim is no longer in pain. Tim was born in Chicago, Ill., on July 31, 1952, the only child of […]
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Thomas E. Foorman
WINNETKA, Ill. — Thomas Emerson Foorman, 25, died Tuesday, May 23. He was born in Chicago, Ill., on Nov. 28, 1991. He is survived by his parents, James Louis Foorman and Margaret Emerson Foorman, as well as numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.