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Do we really need the Great Chicago Fire Festival? 8

The city wants a festival that'll enhance its global image; Redmoon is planning an exorcism.

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  • Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?
  • Some of America's best-known companies and largest temp agencies benefit from—and tacitly collaborate with—an underworld of labor brokers, known as "raiteros," who charge workers fees, pushing their pay below minimum wage.
  • Simeon Career Academy's veteran high school coach has spent three decades building an unlikely baseball dynasty. Will Leroy Franklin and his Wolverines finally get the recognition they deserve?

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