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By Margaret Lyons in News on Feb 14, 2008 12:20AM

Screw Valentine's Day...let's think of tomorrow as Palentine's Day instead. High fives and paper airplanes for everyone!

Daley's plans to privatize Midway is forging ahead, with five of the seven carriers who fly into Midway agreeing to the proposal. [Crain's]

Anthony Abbate may plead guilty to aggravated battery. [S-T]

Illinois lawmakers have accepted $83,000 from tobacco companies in the four weeks before the primaries. Is there such a thing as "small" tobacco, or is it all "big" tobacco? [Trib]

Meaningless list alert: Forbes ranked Chicago the sixth most miserable city to live in in the United States. We're less miserable than Detroit, Stockton, Flint, New York City and Philadelphia, but apparently more miserable than everyone else. [Forbes]

You can now buy official Chicago Olympic gear! No word yet on the difference between "headwear" and "hats."

Police Superintendent Jody Weis seems to be settling into his new gig pretty well. He's exploring changing the hours police officers work to 12-hour shifts, 3 days a week. (Right now, officers work 8-hour shifts.) Weis says the idea for changing the schedule came after a meeting with officers in the 21st district. Los Angeles uses a 12-hour/3-day schedule, and police spokeswoman Monique Bond says other cities do, too, but the president of the Fraternal Order of Police worries that 12 hours is "a very long work day." A 12-hour day is a long day for anyone--hell, my wussy blogging fingers grow weary after that long. [S-T]

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