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07.31.07

Chicago News Roundup for Monday and Tueday July 30-31, 2007 highrise, north side, austin, film, los angeles, gas, vegas, hotel, NBA, casinos, south side, transit, roundup, west side, shootings, wrigleyville, lake michigan, great lakes, gang (0)

What’s the USA’s most-visited city?
When you consider only hotel rooms sold, Vegas’ 40 million hits the jackpot, followed by the Orlando area (27.2 million), L.A. (25.5 million), Chicago (24.8 million) and New York City (23.9 million).
[via USA Today]

Teenage Boy Shot On South Side
A 15-year-old boy was wounded Monday night in a South Side shooting […]
07.20.07

Chicago News Roundup for Friday July 20, 2007 grant, film, humboldt, baghdad, los angeles, postal, calumet, south side, shootings, park, education, event (0)

Is Baghdad Safer Than Chicago?
This past Sunday, Barack Obama gave a speech at the Vernon Park Church of God in Chicago in which he noted that the number of city schoolchildren killed in the last school year was higher than the number of soldiers from all of Illinois killed in Iraq over the same period. […]