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By Chuck Sudo in News on Apr 22, 2011 10:30PM

  • The Music Box Theatre cancels this weekend's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory screenings because Warner Brothers pulled all the prints. [Music Box Theatre blog]
  • Steve Gadlin has another "I Want to Draw a Cat for You" Groupon. [Groupon]
  • City Council put off a vote on the Clean Power ordinance until after Mayor-elect Emanuel and the new aldermen are sworn in. [CNC]
  • State Sen. Ira Silverstein is demanding an apology from a gun rights group for comparing Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's attempts to the identities of gun owners public to Nazi Germany requiring Jews to wear Stars of David. [CBS Local]
  • William J. McCarter, the man responsible for building public television in Chicago, has passed away. [Feder/TOC]
  • Gov. Quinn grants 85 requests for clemency. [ABC 7]
  • A tumblr page dedicated to Smurf graffiti in Chicago. [Smurf Graffiti Chicago, via]