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Your Morning Wake-Up Call for May 28, 2011

By Chuck Sudo in News on May 28, 2011 1:30PM

It's getting warmer outside, but the sun is still set behind a gray wall of clouds so thick it'll have a hard time piercing through. But as the photo we chose for this morning's post reminds us, the beaches are open and Chicago has this reputation for seizing summer by the balls and draining it dry.
On this date in 1809, John Blake Rice, the 18th Mayor of Chicago, was born in Maryland.