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“Authors Showcase” introduces readers to new books and authors. This thirty minute TV show can be seen every Thursday at 8PM on Chicago cable channel 25 (RCN/Comcast) or online at http://authorsbroadcast.com anytime. Chicago Books & Authors Watch a recent episode right now.

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Chicago ‘Code Of Silence:’ 2 Police Officers Claim Blacklisting Over Reporting Corruption

Two Chicago police officers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging that high-ranking Chicago Police Department officials blacklisted them after they attempted to blow the whistle on crooked colleagues who were engaged in illegal activities. Shannon Spalding and Daniel Echeverria allege in the lawsuit [PDF] that they saw police colleagues shaking …

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Supreme Court blocks Illinois law prohibiting taping of police

Tribune staff 10:12 a.m. CST, November 26, 2012 The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked enforcement of an Illinois law that prohibited people from recording police officers on the job. The justices on Monday left in place a lower court ruling that found that the state’s anti-eavesdropping law violates free speech …

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Anonymous hacker behind Stratfor attack faces life in prison

A pretrial hearing in the case against accused LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond this week ended with the 27-year-old Chicago man being told he could be sentenced to life in prison for compromising the computers of Stratfor. Judge Loretta Preska told Hammond in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday that he could …

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Metra OKs hiking 10-ride ticket by 11 percent

By Richard Wronski Tribune reporter 12:16 p.m. CST, November 16, 2012 The Metra board voted overwhelmingly today to raise the price of the popular 10-ride tickets by about 11 percent. The 8-2 vote comes just one year after Metra riders were hit with the biggest fare hike in the commuter …

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Heroin use increasing on North Shore

November 16, 2012|By John P. Huston, Chicago Tribune reporter One day three years ago Meghan Murrin was a New Trier High School senior. And she had just died for a few minutes. Her increasing experimentation with illegal drugs had led her to heroin, and on Oct. 3, 2009, an overdose …

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To Mayor Emanuel, some jobs are worth more than others

What’s really saved by privatizing a couple dozen positions at the water department? The time has come to consider the curious contradictions in Mayor Emanuel’s views of how government can help save or create jobs. When the state of Illinois announced it was giving a multimillion-dollar tax break to the …

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Source: CeaseFire has ‘no significant success stories’

BY FRANK MAIN Staff Reporter/fmain@suntimes.com November 13, 2012 12:54AM More than three months into a $1 million contract with the city, the anti-violence group CeaseFire has “no significant success stories,” a ranking police source said. It’s hard to evaluate CeaseFire’s mediation of gang conflicts without getting timelier reporting from the …

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Rahm Recorded reporters’ conversations without consent…

BY CAROL MARIN cmarin@suntimes.com November 13, 2012 7:40PM Emanuel downplays eavesdrop act Mayor Rahm Emanuel, at a Monday news conference, didn’t like questions about whether his press office had recorded reporters’ conversations without first seeking their consent. That’s a big no-no under the Illinois Eavesdropping Act, one of the toughest …

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Chicago officials admit reporters taped

Published: Nov. 12, 2012 at 2:17 PM CHICAGO, Nov. 12 (UPI) — Chicago officials said they mistakenly recorded two phone conversations with reporters without their knowledge, adding that it is not a widespread practice. Recording a conversation without the consent of all parties is a felony in Illinois, the Chicago …

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Media blackout of black Chicago protesters marching against Obama

Posted by Anne Sorock, Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 2:12pm Black Chicagoans from the south and west sides took their message to what they say is the source of the problem when they converged outside of a fundraiser held by Mayor Emanuel for Barack Obama and then marched to the …

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Senior Chicago cop denies covering up Abbate bar beating

BY KIM JANSSEN Federal Courts Reporter kjanssen@suntimes.com October 30, 2012 2:28PM Updated: October 31, 2012 8:59AM She’s one of Chicago’s top cops — so highly rated that she was one of three finalists to replace former Supt. Jody Weis. But Debra Kirby’s account of her actions in the aftermath of …

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2 Investigators: Chicago Schools Flunk Food Inspections

CHICAGO (CBS) — The Chicago Public Schools are constantly being scrutinized for improving test scores and academic standards. But who’s watching to make sure the school’s kitchens and lunchrooms are being kept up to safety standards? CBS 2’s Pam Zekman reports.

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Beaten bartender’s suit will feature off-duty cop’s beating video at upcoming trial

Woman attacked by cop alleges police ‘code of silence’ led to cover-up By Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune reporter 7:06 a.m. CDT, October 22, 2012 The shocking videotape showed off-duty Chicago police Officer Anthony Abbate throw a female bartender half his size against a wall in the Northwest Side tavern, slam …

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