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By Chuck Sudo in News on Aug 3, 2011 10:30PM

  • Mayor Emanuel, CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard and area ministers all banded together to plead for longer school days for students. [Sun-Times]
  • A north suburban man pleads guilty to posing as a doctor in order to obtain puffer fish toxin. [Tribune]
  • If you think aldermen in Chicago have it easy (they really don't... well, most of them), thank God you don't live in Country Club Hills. [Tribune]
  • Mayor Emanuel defended his former boss, President Obama, against Republican criticism. [Chicago Breaking News]
  • Despite financial constraints, Taste of Roselle is still a go this weekend. [Daily Herald]
  • Jay Cutler and Kristin Cavallari return a sausage stuffer bought for their wedding by WSCR-AM afternoon hosts Terry Boers and Dan Bernstein. [CBS Chicago, includes a scan of the letter acknowledging the return.]
  • Community members join with workers to protest the alleged theft of wages at an Albany Park grocery store. [Gapers Block]