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Judge hears arguments on overturning former Ald. Burke’s corruption conviction
WGN Chicago via Yahoo News· 4 days agoFederal prosecutors successfully argued he used his political cloud to steer business to his law...
Three boys found a T. rex fossil. Now a museum is working to fully reveal it
WFLA via Yahoo News· 4 days agoTwo young brothers and their cousin were wandering through a fossil-rich stretch of the North Dakota...
Cicadas: Why you may not hear them at all if you haven’t yet
WGN Chicago via Yahoo News· 5 days ago“If you’re making a subdivision and you cut down all the trees in a two square mile area, cicadas...
A final salute to Moffett Field’s historic Hangar 3 as it’s demolished
San Jose Mercury News· 1 day agoA place that is no longer wanted by the nation it helped protect, Hangar 3 is being demolished....
Godzilla lands in Chicago for 70th anniversary, 24-hour movie marathon: 'Happy birthday, Godzilla'
Chicago Sun-Times· 16 hours agoGodzilla has made landfall in Chicago — as part of a weeklong, 70th anniversary birthday bash in the monster’s honor filled with film screenings, guests and activities at the Music Box Theatre ...
Attorneys for former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke seek to get some of his convictions overturned
CBS News· 4 days agoFormer Chicago political powerhouse Edward Burke was back in court Wednesday. Lawyers for the...
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WBEZ 91.5 Chicago· 13 hours agoTomorrow marks 150 years since Mahatma Gandhi was born in a small town in India’s state of Gujarat. Raised in a conservative middle-class, upper-caste milieu, Gandhi would develop his political ...
‘Flying salt shakers of death’: Fungus that creates so-called ‘zombie cicadas’ poses challenge as...
Daily Herald· 2 days agoWith the emergence at the halfway point and peaking, a condition more striking than their prominent red eyes has been detected in some periodical cicadas. You may have heard reports of “zombie ...
A fungus is turning cicadas into horny zombies — but don’t panic
NPR· 3 days agoTheir attempts at reproduction, doomed from the start, only fuel the virus’ spread, a group of scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History told ...
A Man Went for a Birthday Walk—and Stumbled Upon a Million-Dollar Stegosaurus
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 4 days agoPaleontologists have never discovered a complete dinosaur skeleton, though they’ve come close. The...
