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By Chuck Sudo in News on Jan 26, 2011 11:30PM

  • Could this be Rahm Emanuel's last fundraiser? [Fuck Yeah Chicago]
  • Justin Kaufmann has the story of an oil painting of SNL's Seth Myers that's at Macy Field's on State Street. [WBEZ]
  • Gery Chico doubles down on his police endorsement, vows to find $200 million in the city budget to hire 2,000 more officers. [Sun-Times]
  • A Gold Coast woman is being held on $300,000 bail for embezzling $290,000 from a scholarship foundation in which she was the Executive Director. [Crain's]
  • So what was Michele Bachmann looking at in her response to the State of the Union last night? Probably Marcus Gilmer's writing about her. [AV Club Twin Cities]
  • Finally, go see former Chicagoista Erin Shea talk about her first car at CHIRPRadio's "First Time" story series at Schuba's tonight. [Schuba's]