Extra Extra: Former State Rep. Derrick Smith Gets 5 Months For Bribery
By Lisa White in News on Apr 23, 2015 10:45PM
- A federal judge sentenced former state Rep. Derrick Smith to just five months in jail for accepting a $7,000 cash bribe in 2012. [Sun-Times]
- Attention Loop workers: expect delays tomorrow morning thanks to the Congress Parkway Bridge Closure. [DNAinfo Chicago]
- Northwestern will be opening an HIV research center at the Center on Halsted to study 1,300 participants in an effort to "take a comprehensive look at all the risk and preventive factors associated with HIV in young gay and bisexual men." [Tribune]
- A team of Northwestern University researchers announced they have invented a new type of security ink that hopefully will stop counterfeiting. [Tribune]
- Gapers Block found a change.org petition that is hoping to get the Cubs to show Harry Caray singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" on their fancy new jumbotron during the 7th inning stretch. [Gapers Block]
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