We hope you enjoyed a great holiday weekend (mostly) full of sunshine, barbecues, enjoying some time off of work, and, of course, remembering those who gave their lives in service for this country. While you were doing all of that, you may or may not have missed a weekend full of news so here's what we covered since Friday. more ›

There's been a lot of talk about tourists as of late. A few weeks ago, the story of the "Tourists" lane in New York made the rounds. Today, as summer unofficially kicks off and more tourists will be flocking to our city for summer vacation, the Tribune wades into the tourism debate. Columnist Barbara Brotman has written up her "rules" for tourists to the city who may clog up pedestrian traffic over the Michigan Avenue Bridge. And while we have our own issues with visitors...it seems much ado about nothing. more ›

• Roland Burris will be sworn in as Illinois' junior senator Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. (Chicago time) by Vice President Dick Cheney.
• Chicago's "Debonair Bandit", suspected of up to five area bank robberies, was arrested earlier today in Atlanta.
• Work on the city's Michigan Ave. Bridge began yesterday and will interrupt pedestrian traffic likely until June.