Extra Extra: CPS Adds 36 Minutes To School Day
- Chicago Public Schools has decided to extend high school days by 36 minutes and eliminate the 14-minute homeroom to add 46 more minutes of instruction time. [Tribune]
- The Republicans finally agreed to pass the payroll tax cut. Now was that so hard, you guys? [NY Times]
- Chicago-area colleges are slow to increase protection against campus shootings, even three years after three were killed at Northern Illinois University. [Chicago News Coop]
- The Weekender names the top off-beat Chicago bars from Diversey River Bowl to Cal's Liquors. [WBEZ]
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel will not endorse anyone in the race for the Clerk of the Circuit Court. [NBC]
- A list of every Saturday Night Live castmember from worst to best. Kenan Thompson is only #61 — what's up with that?! [Nerve]
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