Well, shit just got interesting. After yesterday's announcement by Attorney General Lisa Madigan that she won't be running for his office, U.S. Senator Roland Burris has had enough and will not be seeking to keep his seat in 2010, according to a report from the Sun-Times. Burris is expected to detail his decision in a press statement tomorrow.

As our pal Steve Rhodes reminds us over at NBC, former Blago Chief-of-Staff John Harris served under Mayor Daley as his budget director and deputy aviation commissioner. Could the feds have an even wider net? Will Harris divulge things about Daley as well as Blago? Rhodes points out:

We got a kick out of this considering the ruckus over President Obama's Notre Dame commencement speech earlier this year. Warning: Language gets NSFW so use the earphones.

     

Buy this old post office! The auction selling off the old Main Chicago Post Office (433 W. Van Buren) kicks off August 27 and Rick Levin & Associates Inc., which is running the auction, has suggested opening bid of $300,000. Which is cheaper than a helluva lot of condos and houses on the North Side. Of course, we expect to sell for just a little bit more than that. Sure, it's a fixer-upper, but: three million square feet, on the river, easy access to an interstate that, uh, passes underneath it, West Loopish location...[Sun-Times]

Don't worry about that mysterious disappearance of White Sox pitcher Bartolo Colon. While his exact whereabouts still aren't public knowledge but according to the team, he will make his scheduled rehab start in Charlotte tonight. But perhaps the best part of this is not the "where" or the "when" but rather the "why" he was hard to locate. Ozzie Guillen has his own theory [per the Tribune]:

There's plenty going on in Chicago's bid to claim the 2016 Summer Olympics. Here's a few of the stories that caught our eye.

A near-religious experience with Aventinus Wheat Doppelbock got us to thinking of other darker wheat beers that would be enjoyable for summer sipping. With that in mind, we set out for some good local options and looked no farther than Two Brothers. Local beer geeks know and love the Warrenville brewery's Ebel's Weiss, but it's available year-round. A run to your local liquor store is in order to pick up a bomber of Bonfire, Two Brothers' Dunkel weiss.

Local violinist Lori Ashikawa had her rare 18th century violin, two bows, and a case stolen from her home near the corner of N. Wayne and W. Foster on Monday night. The burglar used a key hidden in a planter outside the door - by the way, as soon as you're home, you should change where you're hiding your spare key - and crept up a couple flights of stairs to steal the violin, all while Ashikawa and her husband slept, which gives us the willies to think about.

As if Kuma's Corner couldn't get any more packed on the weekend, now the venerable burger/beer/metal/biker kitsch bar is throwing a block party to celebrate its fourth anniversary, which should just send fans of Kuma's monster burgers into DEFCON 1 mode.