- The Parking Ticket Geek has coverage from today's City Hall Parking Meter protest.
- The Harold Ickes Homes are coming down and Chi-Town Daily News has a great story on it. [via Gapers Block]
- Brown Line riders rejoice! Another stop is finally reopening; this time, it's the Wellington stop which has been closed for 16 months.
- The Sun-Times brings us the bizarre story of the sorority, the former Chicago Housing Authority comptroller, and the $900,000 wax statue.
- Time Out Chicago published their nifty catch-all site for October's Chicago Marathon.
- We love unicorns. We dig Obama (even if sometimes we don't all agree with some of his policies). But this? A little much. [via]
- Jay Mariotti makes children cry.



Completely unrelated to the content of this post ... Did I just see the Chicagoist crew gathered on the porch of that newish place next to the credit union at Fullerton and Washtenaw? There was a guy who looked suspiciously Gilmer-like and another guy who looked suspiciously Tankboy-like.
sadly, no. though you are likely to see us hanging out on Tuesday nights at the Burlington, which is on Fullerton.