The good news is Johnny Knox was on the field today for Chicago Bears practices. The bad news is Knox was not practicing, and he isn’t sure when he will be.
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BP will spend more than $400 million to significantly reduce noxious air pollution from its massive refinery in northwest Indiana, the company announced today in a settlement with federal authorities and environmental groups that could set a precedent for oil companies nationwide.
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Brad Biggs: Under a beautiful blue sky in a perfect spring setting, the Chicago Bears took to the practice fields behind Halas Hall on Wednesday morning for the second organized team activity (OTA) of the offseason.
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U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald announced today he is stepping down from office on June 30. Fitzgerald has been the longest serving U.S. attorney in Chicago history, holding the office for more than 10 ½ years.
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A woman who was driving a van that struck and killed an 8-year-old Skokie boy has been charged with DUI, police say.
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A young man was killed this morning when his car slammed into a light pole in the city's Avondale neighborhood on the Northwest Side, police said.
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(Reuters) - World powers began talks with Iran on Wednesday to test its readiness under pressure of sanctions to scale back its nuclear program, seeking to ease a decade-old standoff and avert the threat of a Middle East war.
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While Illinois consumers' adoption of broadband Internet service in recent years has been about average for the nation, growth in the number of businesses in the Land of Lincoln getting online with broadband is soaring, according to the monthly Illinois Innovation Index to be released Wednesday.
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A federal judge today granted preliminary approval to a $4.1 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of a group of female detainees at the Cook County Jail who claimed they were shackled while they were pregnantand in labor, despite a state law banning the practice.
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A vast majority of Americans say they eat more whole grains and fresh produce than they did five years ago, but many believe the federal government needs to do more to ensure greater access to locally produced fresh food, according to a new survey.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been jailed for 33 years for treason, officials said, a move likely to deepen strains in ties between Washington and Islamabad.
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Former first lady Nancy Reagan suffered broken ribs in a fall and is recovering slowly.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians relished their first free leadership vote on Wednesday, with Islamists pitted against secular figures in a contest unthinkable before a popular revolt swept President Hosni Mubarak from power 15 months ago.
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Facebook and the Wall Street banks that underwrote its $16 billion IPO are facing questions about how and why stock analysts decided to cut financial forecasts on the company ahead of the IPO and only notify its larger clients of the move.
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As negotiations with city school district drag on, threatened strike vote loomsThe Chicago Teachers Union expects thousands of teachers to show up Wednesday for a downtown rally staged to fire up its members and serve as a display of muscle in the midst of protracted contract talks with the school district.
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New York moves toward banning cancer-causing chemical in children's products; nurses and moms march in D.C. for tougher regulationsPlaying With Fire: Since the Tribune published an investigation that documented industry deceptions that helped lead to a greater use of flame retardants, momentum has been building for stricter oversight of those and other toxic chemicals.
Posted 18 hours 19 minutes ago - 05/22/12 - Full Story

Chicago beach-goers will be setting their own bacteria thresholds this summer, as the city's Park District does away with its frequent swim bans based on E. coli counts. Would-be swimmers still will get advisories as needed, but lifeguards won't stop people from wading into the water.
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A family and neighbors were in mourning today for an 8-year-old Skokie boy who was the victim of a three-car chain-reaction crash that ended with a vehicle careening onto the sidewalk and striking the boy.
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Lawyers for three men accused of plotting to firebomb police stations and other political targets during the NATO summit in Chicago said today their clients have been held in “cruel and unusual” solitary confinement in Cook County Jail.
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Lawyers for three men accused of plotting to firebomb police stations and other political targets during the NATO summit in Chicago said today their clients have been held in "cruel and unusual" solitary confinement in Cook County Jail.
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Two more people have been charged with felonies stemming from NATO protests over the weekend. NATO protest photos | Videos
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A U.S. Airways flight from Paris to Charlotte, North Carolina, was diverted to an airport in Maine where it landed safely after reports of a passenger showing "suspicious behavior," the Transportation Security Administration said.
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Emergency crews are responding to an explosion at a business in Arlington Heights this morning, officials said.
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Sanjay Jha has stepped down as chief executive of Motorola Mobility, whose $12.5 billion acquisition by Google has closed, the Libertyville-based company said today.
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Video shows attack on diners who assailants believed were white supremacistsAn unpublished security video viewed by the Tribune of the bizarre weekend attack at a Tinley Park restaurant shows the black-clad assailants marching in, clubs and hammers in hand, and assaulting a group they believed were white supremacists.
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