• Police continue to search for a man accused of following a woman off of a Blue Line train sexually assaulting her in late August.
• A woman who tried to leave her three year old son at a police station was arrested and charged with drug possession and child endangerment.
• Oak Park is mulling a dress code for cabbies.

Vocalo's Lee Bey takes a look at some of the best ambassadors for appreciation of Chicago's architecture: local hip-hop artists. According to Bey, love him (like we do) or hate him, Kanye has a keen eye for the city's architectural beauty. [via Gapers Block] more ›

It's a Twitter myth no more. TMZ has the audio of Obama's famed "jackass" call on Kanye. more ›

• Now at the top of the list for investigators in the Christopher Kelly case: cell phones.
• The IVI-IPO parking meter lawsuit is still churning along.
• Today at the Brown's Chicken murders trial, a Cook County Jail EMT testified that suspect James Degorski admitted the killings to her and claimed to have done it "just for fun."

• Gov. Quinn outlined today how he plans to cut $1 billion from the state budget, including job cuts and asking some employees to give up pay raises.
• A violent month is drawing to a close; so far, 225 people have been shot in Chicago in July with 42 of those being deaths.
• A suspicious package found this morning outside Oprah's Harpo Productions, Inc building was proved to be safe.