Extra, Extra
By Rachelle Bowden in News on Feb 3, 2007 2:06AM
- Last year a 10-year-old kid fell 30 feet to the ground when boarding a CTA train. Guess who's getting sued now?
- The Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange: BFF?
- This cold weather does more than just chafe your hands, it also breaks water mains and shuts down major intersections.
- Just in time for Super Bowl Sunday: Binge eating is a big-time health problem in the US. Forget about anorexia or bulimia, binge eating is the biggest eating disorder in the US.
- More sour news about US citizens: We lag behind much of the world in helping workers balance work and family.
- Car thefts are way up in Chicago. And what happens to those stolen cars? They're scrapped.
- BP is giving the University of California and the University of Illinois $500 million to team up and develop clean energy sources.
- Ben Gordon is not an NBA All-Star.
- Hey, Cook County public defenders, welcome to Stroger's 2007 budget. Now here's your 20% pay cut.
- Want to take a bite out of those Colts on Sunday? Try again. It's illegal to sell horse meat for human consumption in IL, even though we have one of only three horse-processing plans in the U.S.
Gorgeous photo of one of the Art Institute's lions wearing a Bears helmet is via photoshop abuser.