Extra, Extra

• The Brookfield Zoo is getting a major overhaul to the tune of $100 million over the next 15 years.
• If you're in Kane Country and feeling threatened by someone, you can apply for an order of protection online.
• Watch out for those nasty tow trucks that appear after you've been in an accident.
• Harris Bank is cutting 250 jobs, most of them in Chicago.
• If we stopped testing every guy at Cook County Jail for STDs, we could save about $800,000/year. That link also includes nasty details about how the samples are acquired. If the dude can't pee, they stick a Qtip up his dingding to get a sample. Ow!
• The CBOT has opened a visitors center in its lobby.

"Chicago Couple" via Insomnia Jones.