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Rash Leads To Monkeypox Scare On Chicago Flight

AP | DON BABWIN and GRETCHEN EHLKE | Posted 04.27.2012

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CHICAGO -- Bedbugs. The biting pests that infest hotels appear to be the source of red marks on a Minnesota woman that prompted health officials to q...

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Southwest Investigating Close Call At Midway Airport

AP | Posted 03.13.2012

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DALLAS — Southwest Airlines says it's cooperating with federal officials investigating a close call on a runway in Chicago last month. A Southw...

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WATCH: Freight Train Derails On Southwest Side

Posted 12.02.2011

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Traffic was shut down near Midway Airport on Chicago's Southwest Side early Friday after a freight train derailed, causing cars to hang over the overp...

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WATCH: Man Without Boarding Pass Gets On Plane

Posted 12.26.2011

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A Tuesday evening boarding pass security breach at Chicago's Midway International Airport has become the subject of a Chicago police and Transportatio...

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Chicago Airfares Are Heading Rapidly Skyward

Posted 09.27.2011

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Already home to the perpetually highest gas prices in the nation, Chicago's airfares are also moving in an upward direction -- at a rate faster than a...

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Bill Would Make It Harder For States To Lease Roads, Airports To Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 08.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced the introduction of a bill that could make it considerably more difficult for cash-strapped states a...

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Memorial Day Travel: 1.1 Million Travelers Expected At O'Hare, Midway

AP | Posted 07.27.2011

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CHICAGO — More than a million travelers are expected to pass through Chicago's airports during the Memorial Day travel period. The Chicago Depa...

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WATCH: Plane Careens Off Tarmac At Midway In Heavy Rains

Posted 06.26.2011

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Heavy rainfall in the Chicago area caused a scare -- but no injuries -- for the 134 passengers and crew aboard Southwest Airlines Flight 1919 on Tuesd...

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PHOTOS: Chicago Digs Out After Third Biggest Snow Storm EVER

Posted 05.25.2011

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The 20.2 inches of snow that fell by midday in Chicago made the storm the city's third-largest on record, with still more coming down. The storm was,...

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Cuban Cigar Crackdown: Chicago Airports Confiscating More Cigars Than Ever

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — It's an unintended consequence of the fight against terrorism that's left some cigar aficionados fuming: Terrorists in Yemen try to se...

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Midway Ranks Last In On-Time Departures... A Good Sign?

Posted 05.25.2011

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Midway Airport has ranked last in on-time departures in a survey of major airports -- and that might not be such a bad sign. Two new sets of numbers ...

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City Approves 24/7 Liquor Carts At Midway, O'Hare

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Daley administration's push to allow liquor to be sold at more places in Chicago took another step Wednesday as aldermen approved around-the-clock...

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Daley's Proposed Airport Liquor Carts: Much-Needed Escape Or Perpetual Spring Break?

The A.V. Club Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011

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Looks like the party's on at gate 34B, David. I don't know if you heard, but our esteemed mayor Richard M. Daley has proposed granting liquor licenses...

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Daley Wants More Booze In Chicago's Airports

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mayor Daley has already more than doubled the number of lakefront liquor licenses to attract mid-to-upscale restaurants. Now, he wants to make liqu...

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Morgan Stanley Scores Huge Deal With Cash-Strapped Chicago For Parking

Bloomberg | Darrell Preston | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chicago drivers will pay a Morgan Stanley-led partnership at least $11.6 billion to park at city meters over the next 75 years, 10 times what Mayor Ri...

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Midway Airport To Receive The Next Wave Of Body Scanners

Posted 05.25.2011

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After causing quite a stir at their first introduction, full-body scanners are expanding to airports across the country with little fanfare. Chicago'...

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Daley: Midway Privatization Should Wait For Better Market

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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"You need a good market," Daley said, speaking to reporters after marching in the Polish Constitution Day parade downtown Chicago. "So far, we don't t...

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Customs Supervisor Accused Of Taking Bribes

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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A former Customs supervisor at Midway Airport has been indicted for allegedly taking about $52,000 in bribes to allow foreign employees of three area ...

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O'Hare, Midway Airports Fall In Customer Satisfaction Scores

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chicago's airports have gotten worse in the eyes of travelers, with O'Hare ranked 14th out of 19 big airports nationwide and Midway no longer No. 1 am...

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Chicago Flight Delays, Cancellations: O'Hare and Midway Slammed By Storm

Posted 05.25.2011

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Flights were delayed or canceled by all major airlines Tuesday as Chicago braced for up to 14 inches of snow. City Department of Aviation officials s...

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O'Hare Delays: 50 More Flights Canceled (UPDATE)

Posted 05.25.2011

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As the entire Midwest recovers from a brutal snowstorm Thursday, flight patterns are returning to normal at Chicago's two major airports. . Four hund...

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O'Hare, Midway Delays Among Country's Longest

Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 05.25.2011

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But if you're waiting in Chicago, your wait could be a long one -- the average wait for a delayed flight at a Chicago airport was 65.7 minutes....

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After Parking Meters, Five Other Public Assets Daley Could Sell

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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After draining reserve funds generated by city asset sales, Mayor Daley has hitched Chicago's financial future to continuing the Great Chicago sell-of...

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The Real Chicago Way

Thomas Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thomas Frank

When the entertainers of the right aren't declaring their disgust with Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending he's an exemplar of what they call "the Chicago way."

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Chicago Transit at a Crossroads

Aaron Renn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aaron Renn

The CTA doomsday budget, even if it doesn't come to pass, has done a great service by showing the city the inevitable future. Service has been trending downward for decades.

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