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By Chuck Sudo in News on Aug 15, 2011 10:00PM

  • Friends and family are praying for former Police Superintendent Phil Cline, who had a biopsy performed after a medical exam revealed pancreatic tumors. [Tribune]
  • A Park Forest man robbed two lifelong friends Saturday night. That didn't go well. [Sun-Times]
  • Meet Chicago's Wikipedia editors. [A.V. Club Chicago]
  • Police on the South Shore Line are asking for help in finding the person who raped a 68-year-old woman at the line's Gary, IN station Saturday night. [Chicago Breaking News]
  • Stocks rose today thanks in part to "Merger Monday." [Crain's]
  • Albert Luis Alvarez was denied bond after he was arrested for the 99th time. [NBC Chicago]
  • President Obama's approval rating slips below 40 percent for the first time. [LA Times]
  • The World's Largest Stove, one of the remaining artifacts from the 1983 World's Columbian Exposition, was destroyed in a fire in Detroit over the weekend. [CBS Chicago]