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Midday News Links: Online Lottery Ticket Sales Raises $8,000 In First Day

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Mar 26, 2012 6:40PM


  • The Illinois Lottery started selling tickets online over the weekend, and they say sales are booming. Illinois is the first state to start selling tickets over the internet. [Sun-Times]

  • The city fired the head of Animal Care and Control Cherie Travis over the weekend. [Tribune]

  • A homeless man was charged in the beating death of a 69-year-old man in the Will County Forest Preserve. [Fox]

  • A 32-year-old law student was killed in a hit-and-run collision on the North Side early Saturday. [ABC7]

  • What's the story with those new goofy-looking cabs? [A.V. Club]

  • A new record store called Hydrogen Plus Records is opening on Printers' Row. [NBC]