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    September 30, 10:17 AM
    by Daniel O'Neil, Chicago City Hall Examiner
     
     
    It's not hard to get news in Chicago. Just go to Google News, Yahoo News, or any other large-scale news Web site and you can find thousands of stories with a Chicago bent to it.

    If you have a sub-interest in Chicago news, it can be difficult to wade through large news aggregators to find things of interest to you. Here's a list of news sources you might be interested in:

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