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By Margaret Lyons in News on Jan 22, 2008 12:13AM

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It certainly felt that way, Kookybites

Today's must-read: The Reader's Whet Moser discovers the Chicago Tribune was not such a big Martin Luther King fan back in the day.

Chlorine fumes in an Elmhurst hotel's waterpark sent 20 people to the hospital this afternoon. [CBS 2]

Incoming CPD superintendent Jody Weis will, according to spokeswoman Monique Bond, be taking a "hard, close look at for further action" at the case of Officer William J. Cozzi. Cozzi was caught on tape beating a drunk, disorderly, wheelchair-bound man. [S-T]

Dusti, an 11-year-old male reticulated giraffe at the Brookfield Zoo, died yesterday morning. Of...a broken neck. No, seriously. [S-T]

Illinois's organ and tissue registry is the biggest in the nation. [ABC 7]