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By Staff in News on Aug 1, 2011 5:52PM

It looks temporary, but the Chicago Velo Campus' velodrome is nearing completion. (Photo by Eric Allix Rogers

The White Sox unveiled a statue of Frank Thomas yesterday. [Tribune]
Jerry Stermer, a senior adviser to Gov. Pat Quinn, was fined $500 by the State Executive Ethics Commission for using a state telephone to send a political email. [Sun-Times]
A Mississippi gas station that is tied to the Emmett Till murder is being restored as part of the Mississippi Civil Rights Historical Program. [Greenwood Commonwealth]
Sam Amirante, John Wayne Gacy's attorney, insists there was a 34th victim of the notorious serial killer that was never found. [Daily Herald]
Both White Sox slugger Paul Konerko and Yankees star Derek Jeter are questionable for tonight's game at Sox Park after being hit by pitches yesterday. [CBS Chicago]
A West Englewood man dies after injuries sustained in a shooting. [ABC 7]
Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver likened the debt ceiling compromise to a "sugar-coated Satan sandwich." [Progress Illinois]