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Inside BP refinery's 5-month labor lockout

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Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below : BP has locked out about 800 refinery workers in Whiting, Indiana, without pay for 140 days. We look into where things stand. 🗞️ Plus : Chicago State brings Division I football back to the city, the legacy of neighborhood block clubs and more news you need to know. 📝 Keeping score : The Cubs beat the Dodgers , 7-6; the White Sox fell to the Red Sox , 4-0; the Sky bested the Sparks , 95-88. 📧 Subscribe : Get our morning newsletter delivered to your inbox weekday mornings. ⏱️: An 8-minute read TODAY’S WEATHER ☁️ Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms and a high near 78. CHICAGO JIGSAW PUZZLE 🧩 Piece together history to reveal more about today’s photo from the Sun-Times archives. PLAY NOW TODAY’S TOP STORY 🔎 United Steelworkers Local 7-1 members picket outside the BP oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana, last month. Candace Dane Chambers/Sun-Times Inside the nearly 5-month labor lockout at BP’s Whiting refinery Reporting by Juanpablo Ramirez-Franc

First report: Inside the nearly 5-month labor lockout at an Indiana refinery — grist.org, 5d