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By Rachelle Bowden in News on Jan 6, 2006 2:43AM

  • Elvis' birthday is this weekend. How are you going to celebrate? You at least have to send these cards out.
  • Daley says we don't have to build a expensive new stadium to make a bid to host the Olympics. Chicago can host them still and just have the stadium venues in like Wisconsin.. or like Indiana. Right. Would that still be the Olympics in Chicago? That's the more like the Midwest Olympics.
  • A 25-year-old man who was charged in the strangulation murder a year ago of Melissa Dorner, a local restaurant hostess, was caught in Mexico. A tip about his location came in after his case appeared on a Mexican TV show asking the public to help find him (Mexico's Most Wanted?).
  • Blago wants to force Illinois power plants to cut mercury emissions because they're contaminating the fish we eat.