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Chicago Trash

Yasmin Rammohan | August 16, 2011, 12:00 pm

Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to dump the way garbage is currently collected. Elizabeth Brackett talks with two aldermen who give us their take on the Mayor's latest cost savings plan.

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