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CBS pulls 'Mike & Molly' season finale due to Oklahoma tornado
Monday's Oklahoma tornado has already affected prime time, with CBS pulling the season finale of the sitcom "Mike & Molly." Titled "Windy City," the episode uses a fictional tornado that threatens Chicago as a plot point. "[A]s a tornado descends on...
Tags: Castle (tv program), CBS Corp., American Dad (tv program), Hannibal (tv program), Family Guy (tv program)
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Voice of the People, May. 22
Labeling schools In the controversy over school closings, we often hear the term "failing" as a reason for closing a school. The use of this term is both degrading and insulting to the students, teachers and parents of those schools. A school is a...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Rahm Emanuel, Students, Karen Lewis, DePaul University
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Aldermen endorse tweak to horse carriage regulation
Horse carriages that wheel through Chicago's ritzy neighborhoods would have to display minimum and maximum temperatures of operation under a measure a City Council committee endorsed Thursday. Although two carriage operators backed the proposal, there...
Tags: Brendan Reilly, O'Hare International Airport, Magnificent Mile, Weather, Weather Reports
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Making homes safe from natural disasters
One could say that Judy Gibbons started prepping for her latest endeavor as a real estate agent 46 years ago today. That's because on April 21, 1967, a 9-year-old Gibbons huddled under the basement steps of her Barrington home with her mother, four...Tags: Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, FEMA, Disasters and Accidents, Tornadoes, Real Estate
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Widespread flooding closes expressways, many streets
Flooding spawned by as much as 5 inches of rain closed the Edens, Eisenhower and Kennedy expressways this morning as a second wave of thunderstorms moves through the Chicago area. The Edens Expressway was closed between Foster and Touhy avenues and...
Tags: National Weather Service, Highway Transportation, Metra, Midway Airport, Montgomery (Kane, Illinois)
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Spring storm makes for week of weird weather
Officials warned today that a powerful spring storm will drag in a motley combination of cold, warmth, fog, and heavy rain with possible flooding, making for a weird weather week in Chicagoland. The week started with morning rainstroms yesterday...
Tags: O'Hare International Airport, Weather, Weather Reports
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Snowstorm heads out -- and winter with it?
The snowstorm that buried central and southern Illinois only skirted Chicago as it headed east -- and with it maybe the last of an unusual winter that seemed would never end. The storm dropped 17 inches of snow in Springfield, breaking the old record...
Tags: Springfield, New York City, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Weather Reports, National Weather Service
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Subzero wind chills for first day of spring
It may seem more like an infernal equinox. When spring arrives at 6:02 a.m. Wednesday, it's likely some areas around Chicago will be wincing from wind chills below zero. And while temperatures will warm up as the week goes along, there are rumblings...
Tags: National Weather Service, O'Hare International Airport, Tom Skilling, Weather, Weather Reports
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Crowds throng downtown for St. Patrick's Day festivities
Chicago's St. Patrick's Day festivities brought thousands of people downtown today for the parade and the ritual dyeing of the Chicago river. A boat left a trail of lime green dye in the water about 10 a.m. as thousands "ooohed" in the frigid...
Tags: Limes, Grant Park, Festive Events, Holidays, Arts and Culture
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Tracking a winter storm in Chicago
It may sound like a weather story is easy to cover, but determining how widespread the effects will be for an inconveniently-timed winter storm can be one of the most important deadline issues the Chicago Tribune tackles. The winter weather that...
Tags: Metra, Air Transportation Delays, Chicago Transit Authority, O'Hare International Airport, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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Slow-moving snowstorm pummels southern Michigan, Midwest
CHICAGO (AP) — A massive, slow-moving storm paralyzed parts of the nation's midsection with heavy, wet snow Tuesday, straining power lines, closing schools, clogging roadways and delaying hundreds of flights before churning eastward, where...
Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Highway Transportation, Droughts, Travel Alerts, O'Hare International Airport
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Storm watch issued: Snow, freezing rain, sleet
For the second time in less than a week, the Chicago area is in line for a snowstorm that promises a mixture of freezing rain, sleet and snow with enough accumulation to bring out the snow shovels. Early predictions from the National Weather Service...
Tags: National Weather Service, Highway Transportation, Air Transportation Delays, Weather Warnings, Weather
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