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- Roland Burris will be sworn in as Illinois' junior senator Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. (Chicago time) by Vice President Dick Cheney.
- Chicago's "Debonair Bandit", suspected of up to five area bank robberies, was arrested earlier today in Atlanta.
- Work on the city's Michigan Ave. Bridge began yesterday and will interrupt pedestrian traffic likely until June.
- If Chicago gets picked for the 2016 games, the city will need a new TIF district to help pay for the proposed Olympic Village at Michael Reese Hospital.
- The Department of Justice is suing the city of Gary, Indiana for racial discrimination. The suit alleges that the city ignored rankings when hiring a black applicant over higher-ranked white applicants for an EMT position.
- The American Lung Association and the American Heart Association are seeking to jack up the cigarette tax in the state by another $1 per pack. Sen. Jeff Schoenberg (D-Evanston) would be the bill's sponsor.
- And in today's good news: the Baby Jesus statue stolen from a nativity scene at Incarnation Parish in Palos Heights has been returned unharmed. The church is seeking to implant GPS devices in statues to help prevent further incidents of this nature.
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Great. This is just what the city needs. They can't really afford to plow the streets, sustain the public transit system, honor their pension commitments or keep their (non-patronage) employees employed, but yet they can dip into their magic little pot o' money to bid for the Olympics? Total. Bullshit. How reassuring that they are "almost certain" that they won't be called upon to provide the $500 MILLION guarantee! Considering that they are already committing city resources towards the bid effort, I think people should be outraged. I realize the Olympics are cool and all, but how can it possibly be in Chicago's best interest, especially considering how broke other cities have gone hosting them? If I went out and maxed out all my credit cards and got myself into major financial trouble doing something I couldn't afford, whose fault is that exactly? And how is the situation with the Olympics any different? Oh right, because the city has a bunch of taxpayers to bail them out.
Welcome to the scam, homo. Slight residents while paying for the two-week party. People outraged? You might think, but you are talking about Chicago, where the sheep get exactly what they deserve.