Extra, Extra

By Rachelle Bowden in News on Jun 27, 2006 2:22AM

• Let's hear it for Pink!
• Did you know that here in Chicago we are charged more for milk than in almost all other urban markets?
• Teens are going to have to get more practice before they're allowed to get their drivers licenses. Also, if they skip school they'll lose their drivers license. That takes care of the kids ... now if we could do something about all those dangerous elderly drivers!
• A local Gap employee was pregnant with twins and lost one. She's now suing Gap and saying that the miscarriage happened after she was forced to lift heavy boxes.
• Skokie just broke ground on a Holocaust museum.
• Jenna Jameson has sold her adult entertainment empire to Playboy.
• Springer's not all bad. He just donated $230k to a public school in Evanston to create a multisensory wing for disabled students.
• Pick an El stop off the map, and find bars, restaurants, hotels, coffee shops, and free WiFi nearby.
• No excuses now: Millennium Park is hosting free workouts all summer long.
• The new cool thing? Guerilla Gardening? People around the world are taking an ugly patch of public land and gardening it during the night to create a prettier streetscape. The goal is to complete 100 projects across 4 continents by September 1st.

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