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Extra Extra: Rahm Emanuel Goes To Israel

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Jun 12, 2013 11:00PM


  • Mayor Rahm Emanuel leaves for Israel on Friday. He is taking his daughter to Israel to mark her bat mitzvah, but he's mixing in a little work, too, as he will attend the Israeli Presidential Conference June 18 to 20 in Jerusalem. [Tribune]

  • A Nobel Prize-winning economist from the University of Chicago has died. Robert W. Fogel was 86. [Crain's]

  • Why has food stamp use in Illinois exploded? [Chicago Mag]

  • An Amtrak train traveling from Indianapolis to Chicago hit a tractor in central Indiana. [Tribune]

  • This Blackhawks superfan hasn't missed a game since 1966. [CBS]

  • DuPage County still thinks it can woo the Cubs away from Wrigley Field. [Sun-Times]

  • What states are good and bad at: Illinois is good at making nuclear energy, bad at waste cleanup. That's not a great combination. [Upworthy]