Extra, Extra
- Bad news at the Tribune today as 53 newsroom staffers were cut. The Reader's Michael Miner breaks it down.
- Best wishes to Maggie Daley who today underwent "a biopsy of a bone lesion that has shown subtle changes."
- A Cook County jury awarded the family of Roger Czapski, a BMW salesman killed in a wreck during a 2004 test drive, $13.7 million in a wrongful death suit; Czapski was a passenger in the car during the wreck.
- Congress is considering a reduction in funds to abstinence-only programs across the country, which has Illinois schools reexamining their sex-ed programs.
- DePaul University is willing to rent out spaces in some of its dormitories and perhaps even allow use of its athletic fields for the 2016 Olympics should they come to Chicago.
- New trade sanctions mean Italian mineral water may soon be a thing of the past at area Italian restaurants.
- Today in Awesome: Puppy Plane!!!
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