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• A Hinsdale Bank of America cashier about to be fired helped herself to over $23,000 on the way out the door. That door's about to hit her where the Good Lord split her; she faces up to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to theft. [Tribune]
• The city's foreclosure crisis has led to an unforeseen problem: raccoon squatters. [Sun-Times]
• More fun with foreclosures: Lakeview Baseball Club, one of the many rooftop clubs around Wrigley Field, has a court-appointed receiver after a suburban bank filed a $2.5 million foreclosure suit against it. [Crain's]
• 34 laid-off CTA drivers will get their jobs back, thanks to attrition in the ranks. [Sun-Times]
• The best kerfuffle to read today is between the Reader's Michael Miner and TOC editor Frank Sennett over micropayment content system Kachingle. [Miner 1, 2, 3. Sennett 1, 2]
• Karl strips down to his bare essentials for a story about the nudist social group, Chicago Fun Club (SFW), for Time Out Chicago. [TOC]
• Some of Roger Ebert's notes to a high school classmate on the back of his graduation photo: "You can become a vital, fascinating and valuable woman, if you don't fall into the pitfalls of conformity. I doubt very much that you will — you're not that type." [Roger Ebert Twitter]

Finally, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCUS!!