Cleanup underway after tornadoes leave damage across parts of Chicago area

Cleanup across the Chicago area is underway after strong thunderstorms spawned at least two confirmed tornadoes Thursday.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-illinois-weather-tornadoes-leave-damage-area-streator-nw-indiana/19280623/

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The data center presentation at the Dean and Barbara White Center in Merrillville has been postponed because of the impending Stormpocalypse barging through Chicagoland. Pass it on #nwi #nwindiana #northwestindiana

Great things are happening #inIndiana! #Wages and #productivity is growing fast. The #manufacturing and #technology sector getting energized and #inflation tracking down too on @IIB with @gerrydick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYa1pzizAjg

#Indianaholiday #NorthwestIndiana #EconomicRejuvenation

IU expert shares insight ahead of holiday shopping season

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Great things are happening #inIndiana! #Wages and #productivity is growing fast. The #manufacturing and #technology sector getting energized and #inflation tracking down too on @Iib with @gerrydick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYa1pzizAjg #Indianaholiday #NorthwestIndiana #EconomicRejuvenation
IU expert shares insight ahead of holiday shopping season

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Uran announced his 12/31/23 resignation 12/218/23; the contract says he can cancel it in writing upon 60 days, and there's no severance listed in the contract when he resigns -- only if he's fired

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/ct-ptb-sscva-mtg-st-0114-20240113-5fvymw2mofgohb3yveb4j4ns44-story.html

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SSCVA hires interim president and CEO, decides on severance for former CEO David Uran

The former South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority president and CEO will be able to negotiate up to nine months of severance after leaving the position last month.

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NWI professor, activist Lorrell Kilpatrick remembered for her fierce advocacy

Longtime Northwest Indiana activist and professor Lorrell D. Kilpatrick died unexpectedly Friday morning after a medical emergency, Everybody Counts Inc. President and CEO Teresa Torres confirmed.

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Second racist Zoom bombing in Lake County in a week, this time in my hometown (this one added anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, though) https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/ct-ptb-munster-mtg-epithets-st-1122-20231121-dbmtnxyi7vgvjp7c7qztw3sbye-story.html #nwindiana #northwestindiana #nwi #posttribune #HoosierMast
Munster meeting interrupted by racial, anti-gay slurs

Racial epithets and an anti-gay slur interrupted the Zoom broadcast of Monday’s Munster Redevelopment Commission meeting, and town officials are trying to find out who it was.

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HIghland viewers will now have to watch meetings on Facebook or possibly Youtube because "Bad people do stupid things and ruin it for everyone."

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/ct-ptb-highland-council-racism-folo-st-1117-20231116-uj4lol7dq5aohilafcrom37sbq-story.html

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Highland institutes new Zoom rules after racial epithet broadcast during council meeting

Highland residents and others who use the Zoom platform to view Town Council meetings and study sessions will no longer have that privilege after someone used it to post a racial epithet during Monday night’s meeting.

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I'll never not be salty when a story I broke gets picked up by other outlets, and *their* stories end up burying mine in the Google search. At least one was nice enough to give our paper sufficient attribution, but ones who lifted verbatim? Do better rewrites #nwindiana #northwestindiana #nwi
Highland Police investigating racial epithet broadcast during council meeting

Highland Police are investigating the identity of the person who snuck a screenshot of a video with a racial epithet through an online meeting platform during the Highland Town Council meeting Monday night.

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