The Mustaches For Kids growing season rounded the final turn yesterday before the Stache Bash 2006 finale next week. Growers met for the second checkpoint last night to compare their work. Chicagoist's official mustache enthusiast, Matt Wood, is happy to report that his stache, Sanchez, is coming in quite nicely, and he received the accolades yesterday to prove it. "I've heard everything from 'creepy' to 'gay' to 'nice symmetry,'" he says. "I'll take those last two as compliments." He still admits to being a bit befuddled as to why it's coming in as more of a reddish-brown shade, when the erstwhile hair on his head used to be much darker. more ›

A man was walking his dog in suburban Matteson this week when they were surprised by an alligator jumping out of the trees at them. It was likely a pet until its owners noticed their raw meat budget going through the roof and released it into the wilds of the south suburbs. more ›

Alfreda Torres and Paulina Chandler are the wives of two men (Francisco Torres and Carl Chandler) who need a kidney transplant. They aren’t doing a wife swap, but they are going to be swapping something very important: kidneys. They are doing a “living donor kidney swap,” and it’s the first time this procedure is being done in Illinois. more ›

Peter Sagal - Host of "Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me!" more ›

Jimmy Carrane, Comedian more ›