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Father Michael Pfleger takes a moment while addressing a weekly March to End Gun Violence on the bloody streets of the South Side of Chicago to defend Governor Pat Quinn against partisan accusations regarding a federal investigation of funds used for a 2010 initiative to combat violence in Illinois.

"Republicans have long contended Quinn's anti-violence program was a slush fund the governor used to gin up votes in heavily Democratic districts ahead of a tight election in 2010, and have sought to capitalize on the issue as Quinn faces Republican challenger Bruce Rauner on the November ballot.
Democrats, including Quinn, have acknowledged problems but said the program had good intentions."
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1970's Chicago Fire Department Cadillacs were built by the Miller-Meteor Corporation. Equipment for each of the vehicles included an E&J positive/negative pressure resuscitator, one Baumgartner stretcher, one Rhodes folding stretcher, Corrigan arm and leg traction splints, wood splints, two large first aid kits, two rubber sheets, five blankets, rubber gloves, hot pads, a hot water bottle, ice packs, a crowbar, a CO2 fire extinguisher, a crowbar and a lantern.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, who was nicknamed "Mayor 1%" for his "handling" of Occupy groups during the 2012 NATO Summit Meeting and the closing of Chicago public schools and mental health care clinics in already under-served areas of the city - breaks from his prepared text during Memorial Day civil ceremonies to declare members of the military the true 1%


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"Around lunch time, protesters clad in red ponchos looped around a McDonald's in Cicero, which sits in the corner of a shopping mall. They ended on the street, where they chanted "workers united will never be defeated."

"Protesters then blocked Cicero Avenue near 28th Street in Cicero. Thirty-one were handcuffed with zip ties during the course of an hour."
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The Illinois Choice Action Team is a committed group of volunteers advancing NARAL Pro-Choice America's Mission. We are based in Chicago, Illinois
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Chinatown Dragon Boat Race Tests Stamina, Celebrates Asian Culture
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Chicago Fire Festival started out with "Fire Cauldrons" lowered from the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Kayaks then towed fire rafts down the river.


Great Chicago Fire Festival struggles to ignite
Chicago Sun-Times - Oct.6,2014
Only one of the three structures floating at crucial points along the Chicago River ignited on cue to suggest the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. And attempts to switch from electrical ignition to the old-fashioned manual technique in order to get a roaring blaze going were only fitfully successful. The conflagration never fully happened. But just when all seemed lost, a celebratory fireworks show briefly brought the event to a conclusion.
...The idea was that out of the ashes of a great historical disaster, Chicago was quickly reborn. But without a successful “staged destruction” there could be no transformation — no skyscrapers rising from the river and no glass sculpture emerging as the city’s flag.
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