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Groundskeeper Angel Avila shovels snow at U.S. Cellular Field, AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast
- The International Olympic Committee continues its tour of Chicago and the potential venues for the 2016 Olympics. Meanwhile, WBEZ discovers that - surprise, surprise - the map Chicago 2016 gave the IOC features selective boundaries.
- The death of an Orland Park toddler found dead in her home last night has been ruled a homicide after an autopsy; the cause of death has been ruled as "blunt force trauma."
- The State Board of Education has decided to eliminate grants for some after-school programs after a 2008 Chicago Tribune investigation revealed that several of the programs were misusing the funds.
- The EPA plans to conduct testing this spring of industrial pollution near schools across the country, including the A. Finkl & Sons steel mill near St. Josaphat School.
- Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman has ruffled some feathers by removing the principals of two South Side schools.
- A buffalo belonging to Ed "Fast Eddie" Vrdolyak got loose from Fast Eddie's farm in Benton Harbor, Michigan and police were forced to shoot the animal as it ran through residential streets because of "the risk of public safety."
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