Given those stats, should we consider the CTA’s camera program a crime-fighting success or a money-wasting failure?
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Joliet Murders: Four charged in strangulation and attempted dismemberment of two Ill. males – Crimesider – CBS News.
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A South Side alderman is asking for City Council hearings on an unorthodox gun control measure that would allow for GPS tracking of firearms. WBBM Newsradio Political Editor Craig Dellimore reports Ald. Willie Cochran (20th), a former police officer, has suggested that global positioning system chips be embedded in new guns, and retrofitted on existing firearms, so they could be located if they go missing.
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A South Side alderman is asking for City Council hearings on an unorthodox gun control measure that would allow for GPS tracking of firearms. WBBM Newsradio Political Editor Craig Dellimore reports Ald. Willie Cochran (20th), a former police officer, has suggested that global positioning system chips be embedded in new guns, and retrofitted on existing firearms, so they could be located if they go missing.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel made an unannounced visit to the job fair, and was approached by some frustrated job hunters.
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The tax on every gun purchased in the county — city law prohibits gun sales in Chicago — is meant to offset health care and other costs of gun violence, Board President Toni Preckwinkle said.
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An official wants to try to curb Chicago’s homicide rate by imposing a new tax – a nickel for each bullet and for each gun sold in the surrounding county.
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The Chicago Federal Reserve paper, How to Keep Markets Safe in the Era of High-Speed Trading, prattled of a laundry list of the most recent high frequency trading debacles including Knight Capital as well as others. Yet in spite of these increasingly frequent stock market disasters, even basic risk controls are not implemented. Why? They claim it would slow down their trading systems.
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Sign up or pay up. The City of Chicago is urging its employees and their eligible spouses to join the city’s “innovative wellness program,” or else pay an additional a month for their health care plan.
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“It’s a marker for the community, for posterity and tourism, too,” said a spokeswoman for the site management company. The Obama kissing stone joins other South Side attractions such as the fortress occupied by Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, and Obama’s old barber chair, now enshrined in glass over on Blackstone Avenue.
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