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• Mayor Daley will sign into law the City Council-approved amendment to the disorderly conduct ordinance giving abortion clinics and hospitals a 50-foot protective barrier from protesters. [Sun-Times]
• Mayor Daley also named Joe Ferguson to replace Inspector General David hoffman, and Hoffman praised Ferguson's selection. [Sun-Times]
• Mayor Daley — who got off the plane from Copenhagen running, apparently — nips in the bud a feeler from Aldermen Dick Mell and George Cardenas to build a casino at the Michael Reese Hospital site. [Sun-Times]
• A Logan Square man was charged with the bomb threat at a "Jersey Boys" performance Tuesday night. [Chicago Breaking News]
• Former Alderman Dorothy Tillman is blaming everyone but herself for the financial woes at the Harold Washington Cultural Center, her Bronzeville-based sinkhole of tax dollars and nepotism. [Sun-Times]
• A Travel & Leisure survey says Chicago has the best skyline, worst weather, and us Chicagoans as ugly, surly and dumb. [Travel & Leisure]
• Christopher Lloyd, the Dolton policeman caught on tape beating a special needs student for not tucking in his shirt, is now sitting in Lake County, IN jail for allegedly raping a woman. Oh, Lloyd's father viewed the tape and said his son was only doing his job. [Tribune]
• Garrett's Popcorn returns to Boul Mich next Thursday. [Grub Street Chicago]
• finally, just because we can, NASA bombed the moon today looking for water. [Tribune]

Thanks for tolerating us this week while Marcus is out terrorizing (or being terrorized by) Wisconsinites. He'll be back Monday.