Adam Harrington
Web Producer at WBBM-TV (Chicago, IL)
Web producer at @CBSChicago: 2006-2012 and 2019-present, w/stops at @CBSNewYork, @WCBS880, and @CISofChicago in between. @UChicago alum.
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cbsnews.com | Adam Harrington
Before last week, the highlight of recent Chicago history involving a pope dated back more than 45 years. Pope John Paul II visited Chicago in October 1979, about a year after he was elected. The Archdiocese of Chicago called John Paul II's visit "an extraordinary event which saw an outpouring of devotion and excitement throughout the city" — and not just for Roman Catholics.
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cbsnews.com | Adam Harrington
A man was left in critical condition Sunday in a house explosion in Cary, Illinois, northwest of Chicago. At 1:32 p.m. Sunday, the Cary Fire Protection District was called for a house explosion in the 6700 block of Pheasant Trail in unincorporated Cary. A crew found a house with doors and windows that had been blown off in both the front and rear, and smoke showing from multiple areas. A man, who was the only one who lived in the house, was found on the ground outside.
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cbsnews.com | Adam Harrington
A woman from Germany is grateful for a life-saving operation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago this Mother's Day. Cornelia Tischmacher's lungs were failing because of advanced cancer. The 48-year-old wife and mother of twins was near death. It had all started eight months after Tischmacher, of Berlin, gave birth to twins. The then-40-year-old went to the doctor and found out she had stage 3 lung cancer.
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6 days ago |
cbsnews.com | Adam Harrington
Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, grew up in south suburban Dolton, and attended the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago in city's Hyde Park neighborhood. Cardinal Robert Prevost was born Sept. 14, 1955, in Chicago, His father, Louis Marius Prevost, was of French and Italian descent, while his mother, Mildred Martínez, was of Spanish descent. He has two brothers — Louis Martin and John Joseph.
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kesq.com | Adam Harrington |Dan Kraemer
By Adam Harrington, Dan KraemerClick here for updates on this story CHICAGO, Illinois ( WBBM) - Despite 129 counts in a grand jury indictment against a former suburban Chicago Boy Scout leader accused of sexual abuse, a judge on Wednesday again agreed he can remain at home on electronic monitoring. In February, Michael Farris, 84, of Montgomery, Illinois, was charged with sexually assaulting five underage boys. In court soon afterward, admitted to assaulting five other boys in addition.
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