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Grand Trunk Uses Sand Pockets To Keep Your Beach Blanket On The Ground
The sand on Chicago's beaches can be useful, if you want to keep your beach blanket from blowing away.
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The sand on Chicago's beaches can be useful, if you want to keep your beach blanket from blowing away.
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Their high school prom may have been decades ago, but for some seniors in Roseland, Friday was prom day as some residents showed how they turned back the clock and danced the day away. Noel Brennan has the story.
Noel Brennan reports, that their high school prom may have been decades ago, but for some seniors in Roseland, Friday was prom day as some residents showed how they turned back the clock and danced the day away.
Much of the world woke up Friday to news of the major software issue that sidelines flights, disrupted healthcare systems and delayed banking. The outage was linked to a cybersecurity firm called Crowdstrike that services Microsoft. While much of the problem seemed to be resolved by the late afternoon, several Chicago companies experienced a lot of grief because of the outages.
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