- The Reader's resident investigative badasses, Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky, do it again, explaining to us the city's shadow budget.
- The CTA wheels and deals on parking lots and vending machines to garner a little cash to close their budget hole.
- The sale of the Old Main Post Office is back on again.
- The Cook County Health System is trimming 335 jobs, a move it says will save $60 million.
- A St. Charles child is okay after sleepwalking last night from his home to his school.
- One visitor to the Oprah Store shares his adventures of what he found within.



so...can we vote richie out of office already?
I think virtual tyrants who also are hopelessly incompetent and take such joy in stealing our money for their business and development pals deserve a juicer fate, myself. Tar and feathering for starters, though I'd bet at least a million Chicagoans would settle for the same thing that managed to take out his old man.