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By Marcus Gilmer in News on May 29, 2009 10:30PM

The original Chicagoist layout

• The Reader is reporting that Attorney General Lisa Madigan has opened an investigation into the city's controversial parking meter deal.
• That's not the only investigation going on: federal authorities are looking into the pension deal involving Robert Vanecko, Mayor Daley's nephew.
• A report by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy claims that 87% of men arrested in Chicago in 2008 tested positive for illegal drugs.
• A man suspected of stealing the gun of a police officer after the officer was involved in a car wreck has been taken into custody.
• Strange happenings in Gary, Indiana this week where so far the remains of five people have been found in a vacant funeral home recently purchased at a tax sale.
• There's trouble over at New Trier where the yearbook staff allowed pictures that involved students making obscene gestures and drinking beer.

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