A day before the presidential election, Barack Obama announced the death Monday of his grandmother, who helped raise him and who he praised as the cornerstone of his family.
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Neighborhood: based in LakeviewJoined 1 year 14 weeks ago. Last active 11 weeks 3 days ago.Kayla's Bio
Kayla Webley is the Editor-in-Chief of the Windy Citizen. She is currently a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and has interned at The Portland Oregonian, The Seattle Times, The Scripps Howard News Wire and National Public Radio. Her work has also been published by Chicago Public Radio, The Huffington Post, The Rocky Mountain News, The San Diego Union-Tribune, La Prensa San Diego, The Arizona Daily Star, The Ventura County Star, The Kitsap Sun and HGTV Ideas Magazine. Kayla is a 2008 Carnegie-Knight Journalism Fellow, and can be reached here.
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Author-radio host-actor-activist and Chicago symbol Louis "Studs" Terkel died at his home on the North Side today. He was 96.
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If you’ve got a spare ticket to Obama’s Election Night Party in Chicago, you are going to get more ass than a toilet seat.
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With tickets gone for the Election Night rally in Chicago's Grant Park for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama -- the campaign refused to say how many there are or how quickly they ran out
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The Field Museum had to close the bar early when drunken students from Northwestern's prestigious Kellogg School of Management reportedly threw things at Sue the T. Rex.
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Chicago Tribune Editorial Board endorsement: On Nov. 4 we're going to elect a president to lead us through a perilous time and restore in us a common sense of national purpose.
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More than 1,650 CPS students paid for good grades. 'This is investing in you,' Harvard economics professor tells teens.
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For eighteen years Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood has been host to the Around the Coyote Festival. The festival begins tonight and runs through the weekend, but not in Wicker Park.
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Acknowledging that nuts-and-bolts city services would suffer, Mayor Daley today proposed laying off 929 city employees, eliminating 1,346 vacancies and raising fees, parking and amusement taxes to sol
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Gov. Blagojevich wants to set aside ‘free-flow’ lane for those who share rides, drive hybrids — or pay more.
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