Extra, Extra

• Northbound early morning and late night Red Line trains are going to be rerouted from the subway to the elevated tracks from Roosevelt to North/Clybourn from today til Wednesday morning at 5 a.m.
• J.C. Penney is opening 9 suburban Chicago freestanding stores in the next two years. They're trying to compete with Kohl's.
• Casimir Pulaski has been dead for more than 200 years, but Sen. Dick Durbin announced that the Senate passed a resolution he sponsored getting Pulaski posthumous, honorary American citizenship.
• Bring on the cancer! Chicagoans are dumb about sun protection.
• Everyone's still looking for that woman from Plainfield who disappeared a week ago.
• A company in Aurora is launching a towing taxi service in Naperville. It will drive your drunk ass home and tow your car along with it.
• A bunch of people are in an uproar about a racy billboard advocating divorce in the Viagra Triangle.
• Fourteen gnomes were stolen and a ransom note was left at a house in Chicago Ridge last week.
• Aurora doesn't want anyone wagging any flags or honking in celebration any more.
• Meet the 2007 Loop Rock Girl.

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