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Open for business: Chicago’s first self-cleaning public toilet launched

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CHICAGO -- When Christian Malatesta took a midday bathroom break Wednesday, whatever he did made history. The Wicker Park man shook hands with Ald. Daniel La Spata before an automatic door slid shut behind him, making Malatesta the inaugural user…

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