
Artemia Torres, who sells elotes from a cart in Humboldt Park, was shot a few weeks ago in broad daylight when someone tried to rob her. [Trib]
Police arrested a Willow Springs man from last week's hit-and-run at Sheridan and Belmont. Scott Novello, 41, was held in lieu of $300K bail, and prosecutors say he was under the influence of crack cocaine and alcohol at the time of the crash. [Trib]
Is the Park District canceling its deal with the Latin School? Are pigs flying out of butts across the city? It's a mad, mad world, cupcakes. [CBS 2]
Larry McKeon, Illinois's first openly gay state legislator, died yesterday. He was 63. [Windy City Times]
The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, which will exhibit art from the 19th and 20th centuries, is scheduled to open June 1. [ABC 7]

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"Is the Park District canceling its deal with the Latin School?"
Well, sort of. Except the Park District is going to build the field anyway, with their own money, rather than with private money. I want the Park District to explain how WE THE PEOPLE now get to pay for something that WE THE PEOPLE don't want.