Extra, Extra
By Marcus Gilmer in News on Sep 21, 2009 10:30PM
- The FBI has charged four area men in a child-pornography case; the men apparently did themselves no favors by referring to their groups as "Boy Lovers."
- U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush will introduce the "Bereaved Consumers Protection Act," federal legislation on cemetery regulations, inspired by the Burr Oak scandal.
- The CTA is the recipient of a new $1.5 million grant to help buy cleaner buses.
- One Elk Grove Village gay bar has instituted a new rule that states the gender of your appearance must match the gender denoted on your I.D.; in other words, no cross-dressing.
- Chicago sucks at car-pooling.
- The anti-Olympics site du jour: Chicagoans For Rio.