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        "uri": "/2013/10/18/federal-shutdown-affected-everyone/",
        "title": "Federal shutdown affected everyone",
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        "prettyDate": "October 18, 2013",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "The federal government shutdown may have seemed like a frustrating squabble in far-off Washington, but it crept into our lives in small, subtle ways from missed vegetable inspections to inaccessible federal websites.",
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        "uri": "/2012/09/10/chicago-teachers-strike-for-first-time-in-25-years/",
        "title": "Chicago teachers strike for first time in 25 years",
        "byline": "Don Babwin, Tammy Webber",
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        "prettyDate": "September 10, 2012",
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        "summary": "Thousands of teachers walked off the job Monday in Chicago's first schools strike in 25 years, after union leaders announced that months-long negotiations had failed to resolve a contract dispute with school district officials by a midnight deadline.",
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        "uri": "/2012/07/17/fact-finder-recommends-raise-for-chicago-teachers/",
        "title": "Fact finder recommends raise for Chicago teachers",
        "byline": "Don Babwin",
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        "prettyDate": "July 17, 2012",
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        "summary": "An independent fact finder has recommended that Chicago teachers receive a 14.85 percent raise to \"compensate teachers for working a longer school day and year,\" a union official union said Monday.",
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        "uri": "/2012/06/25/walker-willing-to-look-at-wis-pension-system/",
        "title": "Walker: Willing to look at Wis. pension system",
        "byline": "Don Babwin, Scott Bauer",
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        "prettyDate": "June 25, 2012",
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        "summary": "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Monday that he would be willing to consider changes in the state's $77 billion pension system, with a report on expected to be released this week on how the system could be improved.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2011/07/26/chicago-unions-issue-report-try-to-avoid-layoffs/",
        "title": "Chicago unions issue report, try to avoid layoffs",
        "byline": "Don Babwin",
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        "prettyDate": "July 26, 2011",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
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        "summary": "Union leaders issued a report Tuesday that outlines ways Chicago can save $242 million while also saving the jobs of hundreds of city workers whom Mayor Rahm Emanuel has said he must lay off.",
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