Midday News Links
By Staff in News on Aug 25, 2011 5:40PM
- Hurricane Irene lays waste to the Bahamas and is on a trajectory for the East Coast. [Tribune]
- Park Ridge wants to pile on former Cubs GM Jim Hendry while he's down. [Chicago Breaking News]
- Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig likes the way Tom Ricketts is running the Cubs. [Tribune]
- A Logan Square rapist eludes capture, but police hope a stolen cell phone can break the case. [Sun-Times]
- Quaker oatmeal is now part of Burger King's breakfast menu. [Crain's]
- A Bartlett woman is organizing her neighbors to save their tree-lined block from the Emerald Ash Borer. [CBS Chicago]
- Workers took to the streets today to call for an increase in the minimum wage. [Tribune]