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...city of Chicago is famous for many things - frigid windy winters, fine architecture, the hapless Cubs, to name a few - but high fashion is not one of them. For most people, what usually comes to mind when thinking of fashion in the City of Big Shoulders is baseball caps and khakis. But Mayor Richard M. Daley thinks he can change all that. Daley recently announced the creation of a Fashion Advisory Council, a city-backed coalition of local designers and industry champions who will promote fashion growth. By nurturing designers, the city hopes to bolster its retail economy, gain tourism...
Jewaun Smith, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago, is lucky to be alive. A scrape on his left knee that he picked up riding his bike last October turned into a runaway infection that spread in a matter of days through the rest of his body, leaving his lungs riddled with holes. Jewaun managed to survive, but what worries doctors most about his near-death experience is that it's not an isolated case. The bacteria that infected his knee has become resistant to the most common antibiotics and is on the march across the U.S. It has spread...
Which helps explain why infectious-disease specialists in the U.S. are so alarmed by the new killer bug. "We're out here waving our arms, trying to get everyone's attention," says Dr. Robert Daum, director of the University of Chicago's pediatric infectious-disease program, who was one of the first to call attention to the rapid spread of MRSA, back in 1998. "People talk about bird flu, but this is here...
...Officials said the deaths - ranging in age from young adults to people well into their 60s, mostly men - are hitting people of all walks of life, including victims from some 20 towns surrounding Chicago and also Detroit, where suburbanites trek along the expressways into the inner city to pick up the drug...
...source of the drugs have been launched and police said they are having some luck getting lower-level dealers to turn on bigger catches. But they are careful not to promise too much, noting that arrests have been made, drugs have been confiscated, and conferences have been held in Chicago with investigators from the Midwest and even some East Coast cities. But so far, the scourge goes on, leaving police frustrated - and puzzled...