Midday News Links

By Staff in News on Jul 27, 2011 5:40PM

Credit: TMZ

• The City has agreed to pay $5.9 million to the families of a boy who was killed in a 2004 and his niece who were injured by an unmarked police car driven by two officers who allegedly concocted a story to cover their tracks. [Sun-Times]


• Citizens Utility Board says most smartphone customers in Illinois are overpaying for their data plans, to the tune of $300 per customer per year for unused data. [WBEZ]


• Groupon has paid $10.3 million in stock options to buy e-commerce tech startup Zappedy. [Crain's]


• Monkey jockeys ride into the Lake County Fair. [Daily Herald]


• Why the names of Chicago's neighborhoods are so confusing. [A.V. Club Chicago]


• A woman was struck by a garbage truck in Uptown. [Chicago Breaking News]


• CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard is planning to close down satellite offices and bring more jobs to the school system's central office. [Chicago News Cooperative]


• Kristin Cavallari was posing in wedding dresses for Life & Style magazine before Jay Cutler called an audible on their relationship. [Tribune]