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By Samantha Abernethy in News on Jul 16, 2011 9:30PM

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  • The big annual sailboat race to Mackinac Island started today. [Tribune]
  • The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has stopped trading frozen pork bellies. [Washington Post]
  • Ozzie Guillen is a big fan of the Negro League Baseball Museum and thinks you should be, too. [Tribune]
  • Gov. Pat Quinn will tour factories in Israel next week. [Sun-Times]