Midday News Links: Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., Has Two Half-sleeve Tattoos
By Samantha Abernethy in News on May 9, 2012 6:40PM
- Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., has two half-sleeve tattoos. Huh. Who knew? [Roll Call]
- Thieves crashed their van into a door at the Best Buy near Bucktown. They made off with 60 iPads, 11 laptops and 10 GPS devices. [ABC7]
- A Cook County Sheriff’s deputy has been arrested and charged with stealing from homes during eviction enforcements. [Tribune]
- Chicago is so slow moving freight trains through the city that it causes trains to be late across the country. A train can travel from Los Angeles to Chicago in 48 hours, then it takes 30 hours to travel across the city. [NYTimes]
- Federal study on Asian carp delayed until 2013. [Tribune]