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Your Morning Wake-Up Call for May 11, 2011

By Chuck Sudo in News on May 11, 2011 1:00PM

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Image Credit: Michelle Wotkun

Happy Humpday, readers. It feels like mid-summer outside right now. It's hazy, humid and we're wondering when the rain comes down. Skilling Central forecasts that by afternoon, 40 percent of the greater Chicago area will get some showers and we might be flirting with record temps for a second straight day on the 117th anniversary of the Pullman Strike which crippled railroad traffic across the country and today stands as one of the early historical moments of the American labor movement.