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UPDATE BELOW from NBC CHICAGO ... CTA released surveillance photo of woman with alligator on train ... An alligator, between 12 and 18 inches long, was discovered under an escalator by a maintenance worker on the lower level of Terminal Three at O'Hare International Airport [...] Roaming free under an escalator in American Airlines' Terminal 3 [...] VIDEO 'Allie' the alligator startles officials at O'Hare [...] O'Hare Terminal map ... PHOTO: Here's that alligator discovered under the escalator at O'Hare http://t.co/rvJ8a3sxQ2 pic.twitter.com/nvhSVTsaL3 — FOX 32 News (@fox32news) November 3, 2013 Post by NBC Chicago .

Holiday windows unveiled today on State Street, as is tradition on the first Saturday in November each year and helps kick-off Macy's holiday season [...] Magnificent Mile Light Festival is November 23, 2013 themagnificentmile.com/events

Dick Ingram, executive director of the Illinois Teachers’ Retirement System, says the retirement system for 390,000 public school teachers in Illinois is spending more money than it’s taking in. In a few decades the TRS faces a real possibility that the system will not have enough money to pay benefits to retirees (those currently in their 20s and 30s and 40s)  [...] Illinois Teacher Retirement System ... TRS Wikipedia ...

Lake Forest native Brian Ludmer recovering from gunshot wound after getting hit while waiting to board aircraft at LAX [...] Stephen Hartley, 59 of Chicago, had flown into Los Angeles to be with his daughter after her emergency appendectomy ... Stephanie Rosemeyer, 26, awaiting a flight to Chicago, looked into the gunman's eyes, heard him curse the TSA [...] WORLD WATCHES AT LAWA ... Gunman killed a Transportation Security Administration worker and wounded two others — after sending a suicidal text message to his family [...] First TSA officer killed in the line of duty is 39-year-old Gerardo I. Hernandez [...] Gunman's Text Message: LAX gunman, Paul Anthony Ciancia, planned to die in shoot-out with 'pigs and the TSA' [...] LIVE LAX shooting TIMELINE: 'Multiple victims' hit; at least 7 hurt [...] BREAKING ... A Transportation Security Administration agent and a suspect were wounded in a shooting at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday morn...

Zion police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 12:54 a.m. Sunday to the 2400 block of 2400 Gilboa Avenue to a shooting. One found dead and one with non-life-threatening injuries at party where teens fled. Zion police and the Lake County Major Crime Task Force are investigating [...] Adarius Green was found dead at Halloween Party. Aijah Bradshaw shot in the back -- recovering [...] LIVE TRAFFIC MAP ... http://goo.gl/maps/2Cgj2 Crime rate in Zion ...

Champion News Illinois Review -- crossroads of the conservative community WIND -- 560theanswer.com Press Release Watch

Country Club Hills residents angry about questionable spending by the city packed a council meeting Monday night and pointed the finger at one man-- Mayor Dwight Welch. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-country-club-hills-residents-angered-over-spending-20111115,0,4214087.story