Extra, Extra
- Do not be alarmed when the loud F-16s go screaming overhead tonight at 1 a.m.; there's a good reason for it.
- Looks like there will be a delay in the guilty plea of former Blago cohort Len Monk who was scheduled to do so tomorrow.
- A plant in Carol Stream was evacuated earlier today because of a chemical leak.
- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's William Baker - a partner in the firm's Chicago office - has become the first American to receive the architecture world's prestigious Fritz Leonhardt Prize. [via The Reader's Chicagoland]
- For some local school kids, summer will be ending sooner than in past years - August 10, to be exact.
- Once again, Jay Mariotti disagrees with Jay Mariotti.
- The University of Chicago has earned numerous distinctions in the school's long history and can now add "looking like Hogwarts" to that list.
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