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Volunteers found 964 birds on Thursday morning that died in collisions with Chicago’s McCormick Place. Photo: Audubon.org
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At least 1,000 birds die from colliding with one Chicago building in a day

Volunteers are still recovering bird carcasses within 1.5 miles of McCormick Place, the largest convention center in North America, which is largely covered with glass

A museum's sock monkey collection in Illinois, Chicago has officially set a Guinness World Record with a display of 2,098 sock monkeys. Photo: Collected
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Illinois museum sets world record for sock monkey collection

Robert (Bob) E. Crimo III, a person of interest in the mass shooting that took place at a Fourth of July parade route in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. is seen in this still image obtained from a social media video. Robert Crimo/via REUTERS
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Suspected shooter in Chicago 4 July parade attack to be charged soon

Oak Brook Mall was placed under a lockdown after calls of shots fired, Thursday, 23 December, 2021, in Oak Brook, Ill. A shooting at the suburban Chicago mall full of Christmas shoppers left several people injured Thursday, police said. The incident at Oakbrook Center in Oak Brook began with two males involved in a shootout in a corridor around 5:45pm, police Chief James Kruger said. PHOTO: Anthony Vazquez/Chicago Sun-Times via AP
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4 people injured after shooting at Chicago-area mall

Chicago police officers salute as a procession for a police officer who was shot and killed earlier during a traffic stop at 63rd and Bell drives by the Cook County Medical Examiners Office, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. Photo: UNB/AP
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1 Chicago officer killed, 1 wounded in traffic stop shooting

Adam Toledo, 13, holds up his hands a split second before he was shot by police in Little Village, a neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, U.S. March 29, 2021 in a still image from police body camera video. Image taken March 29, 2021. Civilian Office of Police Accountability/Handout via REUTERS
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Hundreds protest Chicago police killing of 13-year-old boy

Efforts to tame the city's rat population have been going on for years Photo: Collected
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For the sixth year in a row, Chicago is the rattiest city in the US

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Mass looting breaks out in Chicago; shots fired, 100 arrested

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Shootout at Chicago funeral leaves 14 wounded

An employee, wearing protective mask following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), works at the almost empty Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan, March 14, 2020. Reuters/Edgard Garrido
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Airport blunder allows 92 on Chicago flight into Japan without quarantine request

The influence of Chicago economics and of Friedman’s own arguments remain extraordinarily wide. Photo: AFP via LiveMint
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Inequality in Cambridge and Chicago

Thirteen people were wounded in a shooting at a party on Chicago's south side intended to honor the victim of an earlier shooting, picture taken from a Reuters video content on, December 22, 2019/ Reuters
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Party to honor Chicago shooting victim ends with 13 wounded

At least 13 shot, injured in Chicago
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At least 13 shot, injured in Chicago