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By Chuck Sudo in News on May 26, 2011 10:20PM

  • A ban on trans fats for restaurants, bakeries and school vending machines fails in the Illinois Senate. [Clout Street/Tribune]
  • David Headley testifies about visiting the Dubai hotel targeted for the 2008 terrorism attacks he helped coordinate. [Sun-Times]
  • A woman found standing naked outside the Gurnee police department said "spirits" guided her to strip off her clothes and walk to the station. [TribLocal]
  • Chicago's jobless rate falls to 8.7 percent in April. [Crain's]
  • Barack Obama protégé Will Burns begins his political ascent. [Chicago Mag]
  • Patricia Columbo, who was convicted of murdering her parents and 13-year-old brother in 1976, was denied parole. [CBS Local]
  • iPads are becoming a popular therapeutic tool for children with disabilities. [ABC 7]
  • A proposed development project at the Ravenswood Sears parking lot is derailed. [Sun-Times, via Center Square Journal]