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We don't know what it is about Chicago that the Discovery Channel loves so much, but we're not complaining. Both Liar's Club and the Metro have been featured recently on the show Ghost Labs and Dirty Jobs was recently in town as well. Now, part of Chicago is getting the limelight all to itself. The channel will debut a new three-part series tomorrow night called Cook County Jail, which focuses on...well, do we have to spell it out for you? Parts one ("Brains & Brawn") and two ("Gang Ties") air tomorrow night, starting at 8:00 p.m.

This is why we love the Discovery Channel. Behold the site of a water droplet bouncing. [via]

If you're a fan of the Discovery Channel, you're in luck because you'll have a few chances to see the Windy City on television. Gapers Block points out that Dirty Jobs (8 pm) will include a glimpse of the West Chicago branch of Sims Recycling Solutions. But there's more. Ghost Lab follows (9 pm) and, just a few weeks after paying a visit to Liar's Club, the crew take on some ghosts that are apparently haunting the Metro. Spooky!

Forensic anthropology students at the University of Indianapolis have exhumed what may or may not be the body of Belle Gunness, a La Porte, Indiana serial killer from the turn of the century. Some say Gunness killed herself in a kerosene-soaked fire that burned down her farmhouse, but others say she staged that and escaped. Now, forensic anthropologists are going to test DNA from the exhumed headless skeleton again saliva from an envelope from a letter Gunness sent one of her eventual victims. Wowsers.

So, over in Carpentersville, a couple of trustees want English to be the official language. That's pretty much it. But we have to say, every time we read about something like this, we just get sort of irritated-borderline-pissed. Frankly, it wouldn't affect us; we speak and write American English. However, there's just something about it that screams "play my game or go home." And that kind of shit we've never stood for.