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By Chuck Sudo in News on Feb 15, 2011 11:00PM

  • Rahm Emanuel tells Roe Conn he'll donate up to $5,000 to charity if the person behind the "Mayor Emanuel" Twitter feed reveals his identity. [Mike Flannery/Twitter]
  • Not only are we thawing out, we're officially in pothole season. [Tribune]
  • A Rogers Park man was found frozen in an unheated apartment. [Chicago Breaking News]
  • Bond was set at $350,000 for Lynwood Clerk Roel Valle, who allegedly killed a mother of four when he was driving drunk in the wrong lane on Illinois Highway 394. [Tribune]
  • The mother of a woman accused of killing a man while updating her Facebook page while driving said she didn't do it. [Chicago Breaking News]
  • Kitty Kelley unearths the man who says he lived with Oprah before Stedman Graham came along. [Gawker, h/t Feder]
  • Brian Doherty, City Council's lone Republican alderman, is in a rugby scrum for his seat. [Progress Illinois]