It sounds like a scene from a John Woo gangster movie, played out in slo-mo by guys in suits and sunglasses. But for Hong Kong Chef, a small family-run Chinese restaurant in the 4100 block of north Sheridan which claims...
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Donations made to Alexi Giannoulias will be diverted to nonprofits.
The judge compared them, unfavorably, to Bernie Madoff.
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A man is arrested for exposing himself at a Near North Side Starbucks.
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