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In a political season that has been marked by the theme of change, Illinois's 3rd Congressional District has become one of the battle grounds over what the Democratic Party might look like going forward in 2008. Critics of the incumbent, Dan Lipinski, are unhappy with his opposition to abortion rights and stem cell research, and his siding with moderate Republicans on the war in Iraq and domestic spying. Besides his voting record, they also don't like how he came to congress: If you don't remember the 2004 general election, the elder Lipinski won renomination in the primary, withdrew during the campaign year, and then led the process to pick his replacement on the November ballot - his son Dan, a political science professor from Tennessee. Although Dan won handily in 2004, angry challenges in 2006 held him at only 54% in the primary, with the opposition split between two opponents.

We’ll admit, you had us a little worried last week, people. But you met our challenge head on and brought your stupid A game this week. We knew you had it in you.

Few artists inspire as much delight and wrath from even the most casual art observer as Andy Warhol. You love/hate how he made accessible/denigrated his work by putting it on soup cans, how his 8-hour shot of the Empire State Building blew your mind/messed with your mind, how he took silver balloons and made them art, how he captured Marilyn Monroe’s essence over and over again. Starting this weekend, the MCA exhibits many shades...

Down in Nashville there’s an obsession with a dish called “hot chicken.” Legend has it that it started when the girlfriend of a man named Thornton Prince- a notorious womanizer- decided to exert payback on Prince’s whoring around by spiking his fried chicken with enough hot spices to fell an elephant. But the girlfriend discovered the hard way that revenge is indeed a dish best served cold: Prince loved the hot chicken so much he asked for seconds and thirds.

The quarterly comedy writing and performance showcase Funny Ha-Ha rumbles into the Museum of Contemporary Art tonight, the December offering of the MCA’s Literary Gangs of Chicago series. Chicagoist was lucky enough to catch up with the Funny people last spring and was treated to host Claire Zulkey’s Cosmo Quiz satire, Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s musings on everyday life, a revival of Aaron Friedman's before-our-time ‘Council Wars’ routine, and comedy troupe Schadenfreude’s equal-opportunity hating on FM radio personalities.

Attention short story fans! (And by "short story fans" we mean enthusiasts of the short story, not story enthusiasts who are short, nor short story cooling mechanisms--though you are all welcome here as well!) You have until noon today to enter here for your chance to win a delightful bundle of Paris Review goodies, courtesy of Picador and in honor of tonight's Stories on Stage event. Three winners will be chosen and notified this afternoon by email.

She can't walk or talk, but she can conceive. Police and the Illinois Department of Public Health are investigating the Alden Village Health Facility for Children and Young Adults in Bloomingdale after news that a 23-year-old brain-damaged resident of the facility is pregnant. An employee at the facility called the woman's mother last month to tell her that her daughter was going to the hospital for a swelling in her stomach. Originally they thought it...

Crane jumped first and was uninjured, and Lopez followed but wasn�t so lucky. He severed his leg at the knee, although Chicagoist can�t quite figure out how. Crane ran a mile to the nearest house to call 911, and rescuers took Lopez and his leg first to Porter Memorial Hospital in Valparaiso and then airlifted him to St. James Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois. Police discovered that Crane was wanted in Hammond for marijuana possession, so he�s in jail. No word yet on Lopez�s leg.