Extra Extra: How To Recycle Your Christmas Tree
- Christmas is over, so it's time to get rid of that big dead thing shedding prickly pine needles on your floor. From Jan. 5 to Jan. 18, the Chicago Parks District will be accepting Christmas trees at some city parks. [ABC7]
- White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski, one of the few remaining Sox players from the 2005 World Series, is leaving Chicago to play for the Texas Rangers. [WBEZ]
- A Bridgeport woman’s home burned to the ground while she was at midnight mass. [Sun-Times]
- Thieves stole a paralyzed man's van. [ABC7]
- Woman killed in Logan Square wrong-way hit-and-run collision. [Sun-Times]
- Wisconsin had the nation's worst whooping cough rate. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]
- Former Bears player Steve "Mongo" McMichael says he's going to run for mayor of Romeoville. [Sun-Times]
