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Lynn Sweet on Bill Cameron’s WLS “Connected to Chicago”

By Sun-Times Wire

Listen HERE for the latest WLS “Connected to Chicago” hosted by Bill Cameron with me–Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, Greg Hinz of Crain’s Chicago Business and Ray Long of the Chicago Tribune.

On tap: The deficit/budget/default negotiations and Mayor Rahm Emanuel walking out of an interview with NBC’s Mary Ann Ahern when she asked him where his kids would go to school.

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Netflix looks to curb password sharing, considers ads

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Joliet farmers wrangle cows thrown from semitrailer after crash on Interstate 80

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