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• 09.07.07
  Chicago News Roundup for August 29-September 6, 2007   e. coli, chicago heights, playground, schaumburg, south suburb, gold coast, metra, vietnamese, lawndale, red line, ghana, montrose, harbor, river, ohare, shootings, park, south side, trains, transit, olympics, casinos, bridge, bicycle, southwest, tourism, restaurant, roundup (0)

  All Cities Tested Had Bacteria on Their Playgrounds
  So, “Good Morning America” investigated playground cleanliness across the nation by collecting 60 samples at public playgrounds. The samples were tested to determine which playground was the cleanest and which had the most germs.
  “GMA” tested 12 playgrounds in four cities including: Washington, D.C., and suburban Virginia and Maryland; […]

• 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. […]

• 07.19.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Thursday July 19, 2007   obama, north side, highrise, weather, park, west side, gang, real estate, roundup, food (0)

  Obama Unveils Plan To Cure the Ills of Urban America
  Senator Obama of Illinois rolled out a plan to cure the ills of urban America, just as one of his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, John Edwards, wrapped up a three-day trip focusing on America’s poor.
  In a speech yesterday in the capital’s poorest neighborhood, Anacostia, […]

• 07.17.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Saturday and Sunday, July 14-15, 2007   history, brothel, red light district, garden, auto, obama, magnificent mile, poison, austin, oak park, south side, guns, roundup, west side, shootings, robbery, lake michigan, park, suburb (0)

  Obama To Talk About Guns At South Side Church
  CBS 2’s Mai Martinez reports that he’s expected to address the shootings of 34 Chicago students.
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  Naomi Walley said, “I’m glad that one of the candidates is addressing local violence because it’s become a huge problem, especially in Chicago and with all the deaths of teenagers and high […]

• 07.06.07
  News Roundup for Tuesday, July 3, Wednesday, July 4, and Thursday, July 5, 2007   shootings, gary, taxi, mcdonalds, lincoln park, park, disease, olympics, lake michigan, great lakes, memphis, west side, roundup, police, evanston, suburb, transit, loop, south side, guns, ak-47, trains, gang (0)

  Memphis woman arrested with gun at Chicago’s Sears Tower
  A Memphis woman was found carrying a loaded revolver at the Sears Tower in Chicago.
  Police said 56-year-old Stephanie Warren is charged with one count each of unlawful use of a weapon, failure to register a firearm in the state of Illinois and not having an Illinois firearm […]