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OK, some of you have already had enough of all the Wrigley Field naming rights talk. We understand. But new details give some answers as to how the naming rights might be applied and who some of the bidders might actually be.

Paul Tilley, 40, died Friday after jumping from a window the Fairmont hotel. His death has been ruled a suicide.

It's been barely more than 24 hours since Lance Briggs' brand new $450,000 Lamborghini was found wrapped around a pole on the side of the Edens Expressway. In that time, we have learned that he was in fact driving the car at the time of the accident, and as a result on Monday was charged with leaving the scene of an accident -- a misdemeanor-- and ticketed for failure to immediately notify police of a...

McDonald's espresso for everyone! G-Rod proposing a new payroll tax. Two U of I football players caught stealing laptops. Ben Gordon drops 48 points on the Bucks, still not the game's top scorer. Speed skater Shani Davis breaks his own world record. Do you have State Farm auto insurance? You could be getting a $25 dividend on your policy. Pritzkers selling Presidential Towers. Was it the bed bugs? "Fire & Ice" via e.q....

Just an interesting bit of business news on a Monday: When Allstate recently got their financial asses kicked by the likes of Katrina and other hurricanes last summer, they decided to trim costs and improve operations. (They lost $1.55 billion in the third quarter -- their biggest quarterly loss as a publicly traded company. ) They offered 6,800 workers a voluntary buyout offer at the Northbrook office and expected about 700 to take the deal,...