Extra, Extra
By Marcus Gilmer in News on Jul 1, 2010 10:20PM
Photo by sledzik
- A former inmate has filed a new torture lawsuit against former police commander Jon Burge and claims Mayor Daley knew of what was happening.
- Notice less road construction today? That's because workers went on strike.
- Trib Company CEO Sam Zell thinks the future of newspapers is PDF? That explains a lot.
- More big stores: another Target, the city's 11th, is coming, this one in the West Loop. [via GB]
- The family of the young woman killed in this spring's Old Navy shooting has filed a lawsuit against the store.
- Today the state's minimum wage went up while the Cook County sales tax rollback went into effect.
- June 2010 was the second wettest June since Chicago started keeping weather records.
- Chicago Magazine has named the winner and runners-up of their Blagojevich photo contest. We still prefer this one by our former writer/genius-in-residence Lauri Apple.
- More Blackhawks farewells: Burish and Ladd.