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We were poking through this Chicago Magazine profile of Chicago author Audrey Niffenegger (who we also interviewed here) when this line caught our eye:

• Somehow, Illinois ranked 13th in the nation in terms of well-being based of a USA Today-Gallup poll. In semi-related news, the National Alliance on Mental Illness gave the Illinois mental health system a "D" grade which comes as several mental health centers in the city fight to keep their doors open.
• The compelling saga of James Douglas Wilson, a Des Plaines man sentenced to eight years in a Moroccan jail for drug trafficking, charges his family says are false.
• The Trib takes a look at how new legislation proposed by President Obama affects local efforts to dispose of nuclear waste.

The nicer the weather gets, the busier we get across the Ist-A-Verse. But we like being busy. Here's a peek at what we've been up to since last week! Chicagoist had an interview with Audrey Niffenegger, whose popular book, The Time Traveler's Wife, was based in their fine city. They also had a heated discussion about Rush Limbaugh's controversial Barack Obama parody, talked about whether Uncle Julio's Hacienda is a good place to get...

Author Audrey Niffenegger

For this month’s Convince Us, we asked you to recommend a love story. We picked The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. We picked it because of the Chicago connection, but also because we can’t stand to keep hearing about a book we haven’t read. The story is about Henry, a man with Chrono-Displacement disorder, or in other words, a time traveler. Henry meets and falls in love with Clare: “I met Clare for the...

Remember when the readworthiness of a book was judged by the number and quality of pictures it contained? Up until first grade: the more illustrations, the more colorful, the better. In second and third grade, chapter books with colorful covers and line art inside were the coolest. By fourth grade, anything with pictures was FOR BABIES, though we still enjoyed the occasional Where the Wild Things Are, or, when the season was right, The Polar...