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Online fundraiser generates 12K for cats after homeless caretaker freezes to death in alley

CHICAGO - More than $12,000 has been raised to support a cat colony in an upscale Chicago neighborhood after the felines' homeless caretaker froze to death during a stretch of brutal winter cold.

As of Wed., March 14, 230 people had donated to an online fundraiser to care for Antonio Garcia's

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