The CTA will be spending $227 million in federal funds on improving itself and fixing slow zones. Doors open on the left at "finally." In other CTA news, the Yellow Line is going to start running on weekends. [S-T, Trib]
Chicago police officers made heroic rescues in a fire last night in a Chicago Housing Authority building. [Trib]
This just in: Airport security might be bullshit. [S-T]
Patrick Daley's sewer company did $200,000 worth of business with the Water Reclamation District. [S-T]
Here's a new task for your Chicago drinking game: Every time Paul Sereno discovers a dinosaur, drink. Seriously. That guy discovers dinosaurs like it's his job. Oh...it IS his job? Anyway, he discovered another dinosaur. [Trib, S-T]
Image by Katherine of Chicago. And Happy Valentine's Day, readers. I certainly love you.



Jeez, start to fund a transit agency and it starts splurging like a terminally ill bipolar who won the lottery.
And by "splurge", I mean, "start to provide services it should have done all this time"
I love dinasours as much as the 10 year old little kid down the street. But when they say 'discovered a new dinosaur', they really mean 'discovered an unidentified broken rib bone and top jaw', and then proceed to computer animate an entirely new beast around these two fragments and call it a dinosaur.- thats only for the new ones though.
All others I still play with.