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"'I don’t know why more banks don’t have security guards,' [bank robber] Renell Baker says." [AP]

So...we guess you do have to be insane to like Blagojevich. [Cheap Shot Posse]

Let's build a fort. [Hybrid Heart, via By So and So]

Congressman Bobby Rush, D-Chicago, is recovering from surgery to remove a cancerous tumor on his salivary gland. [release]

Dance pioneer Gus Giordano died Sunday. He was 84. [Trib]

What would happen if a "pandemic strain of influenza" hit Chicago? [National Academy of Sciences]