Local Updates from ABC News Radio for Chicago.
(CHICAGO) -- Chicago police are investigating a reported sexual assault near the campus of University of Illinois, Chicago.
The victim, who is a student at the University, says three men attempted to sexually abuse her on the 800 block of West 16th Street early Thursday morning. The suspects fled when a car drove by.
Students at the University have been placed on alert.
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(CHICAGO) -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel and state legislators -- faced with crippling budget deficits -- want Chicago to become the first big city in America to own a casino and control thousands of slot and video poker machines.
The Illinois legislature has already approved such a plan, allowing five casinos in Chicago, its suburbs, and downstate cities, but Gov. Pat Quinn is holding the veto card and he's worried about turning Chicago into Las Vegas of the Midwest.
Illinois voters, Quinn says, do not favor "excessive gambling," but he has not publicly said whether he will veto the plan.
Chicago's new mayor, like his predecessor, sees a city-owned casino generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year -- money that could be used to help fill a nearly billion-dollar deficit. Potential developers are already eying possible sites downtown, including the once-grand Congress Hotel on Michigan Avenue, the gleaming new Trump tower in the River North neighborhood, and Northerly Island.
Opponents fear a casino will divert revenue away from local venues and the city's strong convention business.
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(CHICAGO) -- On Wednesday, officials charged a man already in Cook County Jail for weapons charges, with the murder of three men in 2010.
Roberto Cerda, 24, is suspected of killing Andres Butron, 37, Hector Romero, 28, and Ernesto Alequin, 42, whose bodies were discovered in a car on the 4800 block of South Whipple Street in May 2010.
Cerda is said to be associated with a group involved in a string of drug-related murders in the city.
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(CHICAGO) -- A bicyclist was struck by a City of Chicago truck in North Center early Thursday morning.
A 20-year-old woman was hit while riding her bicycle at the intersection of Cullom and Lincoln Avenues. She has been hospitalized.
An investigation into the accident is underway, although police believe the cyclist rode in front of the truck after ignoring a stop sign.
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(CHICAGO) -- For nearly six decades, a Daley has been in the mayor's office in Chicago. But the new occupier didn't seem concerned about escaping that shadow –- Rahm Emanuel says the city is ready for a change.
"To Mayor Daley's credit, he knew they were ready for a change," Emanuel said in an exclusive interview with ABC News. "He left a great city. A lot of great work he has done. And I’m not just talking physical, although that's nonetheless a manifestation of it. But there is a change that has to happen."
Emanuel says among his top priorities are reform education and increasing police presence on the streets. The new mayor also says his office is looking at ways to cut spending, given the $700 million shortfall facing the city.
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