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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (Credit: CBS) Emanuel, Garcia Spar Over Obama Presidential Library Bid The second phase of Chicago's mayoral campaign is underway with the two sides battling it out over the proposed Obama Presidential Library. Police surveillance photos of the suspect. (Credit: Chicago police) Police Release Surveillance Photos Of Suspect In Shooting Of Teen Chicago Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect in the shooting of a teen boy last month.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (Credit: CBS) Emanuel, Garcia Spar Over Obama Presidential Library Bid The second phase of Chicago's mayoral campaign is underway with the two sides battling it out over the proposed Obama Presidential Library. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia. (Credit: CBS) Chuy Garcia Calls For Higher Pay For Health Care Workers, More Police Officers In the race for Chicago mayor, challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia spoke Saturday in favor of higher pay for home health care workers and committed himself to work toward a $15 an hour floor salary.

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The Carson Pirie Scott store at North Riverside Park Mall reopened on Feb. 26, more than three months after a fire forced it to close. (Credit: North Riverside Park Mall) Carson’s Reopens At North Riverside Park After November Fire The store closed November 12th after a fire in a storage area. Manager Robin Adams said smoke damaged everything in the store. An Abrams-M1A1 tank at the joint Iraqi-American military base of Basmaya on the southern outskirts of Baghdad on March 15, 2010. (Photo credit: ALI AL-SAADI/AFP/Getty Images) Company Faces Federal Charges Over Military Equipment Deals With China Some of the materials exported include components used in night vision systems on the M1A1 Abrams tank, the U.S. Armed Forces’ main battle tank, according to a statement from the Department of Justice.

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Designer Michelle Bastock discusses the debate over the colors of the dress she created. (CBS) Black And Blue? Gold And White? ‘The Dress’ Riddle Explained CBS 2’s Suzanne Le Mignot has the science behind this optical illusion. Under The Dome (Photo by Best Possible Screen Grab/CBS) CBS Announces Summer 2015 Lineup This summer will be hotter than ever for CBS' primetime schedule with the announcement of a new drama, two returning dramas and the summer's biggest reality show.

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In this photo illustration, a bottle containing a measles vaccine is seen at the Miami Children's Hospital on January 28, 2015 in Miami, Florida. A recent outbreak of measles has some doctors encouraging vaccination as the best way to prevent measles and its spread. (Photo illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Visitors To Long Grove Menards Might Have Been Exposed To Measles Fearing exposure to measles for potentially hundreds of people at a Menards store in north suburban Long Grove, the Lake County health department is setting up clinics to give out free measles shots for people who haven't received the vaccine. Dave Savini pouring through a dumpster containing medical files with sensitive information. (Credit: CBS 2) 2 Investigators: Medical Files With Personal Info Found In Dumpster A massive breach of medical records containing confidential personal information has prompted both federal and state investigations.

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(STEPHANIE PILICK/AFP/GettyImages) Feds Warn Computer Users Of “Ransomware” The FBI has issued warning about a growing type of malicious Internet software that could take your computer hostage, along with all the data stored on it. Purdue University graduate student Max Fagin at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. (Credit: Facebook) Purdue Grad Student Hoping For One-Way Ticket To Mars A couple hundred thousand people applied for the Netherlands-based Mars One project, and now there are only about 660. By Monday, there will only be about 200 still in the running for the plan to establish a permanent human colony on Mars by 2025.

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