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Patch Flash: Kidney Donation Could Lead to Evanston Man Losing Chicago Public School's Job

Chicagoland news to talk about: Invasive carp to get electric jolt on way to Lake Michigan.

 

The publicity from the donation revealed that Coyne had been a resident of Evanston for the last 27 years.

, court documents show. A grand jury on Tuesday indicted 28-year-old Kristine Juline in connection to the Aug. 22 incident outside Home Depot.

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The Cook County Sheriff's Department said Eddie Blue, 16,  is charged with one count of aggravated criminal sexual assault. Cook County Sheriff investigators said Blue forced a 30-year-old staff worker into a bathroom, choked her, tore her clothes off, and sexually assaulted her.

 

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Some depressing statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau Tuesday show that Illinois is currently home to more poor people than was the case nearly two decades ago. Illinois' poverty rate is high at 14.1 percent, it is still lower than the current national average, which is a whopping 15.1 percent, or just more than 46 million Americans. The number is the highest-ever since the Census Bureau began reporting poverty rates in 1959.

The barriers, located in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, are designed to keep the detrimental Asian carp from migrating into the Great Lakes.


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