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By Chuck Sudo in News on Sep 2, 2011 10:00PM

  • Heading into the Labor Day weekend, local gas prices are the highest in the nation. [The Expired Meter]
  • A woman who was killed this morning walking on the Eisenhower Expressway had been released a couple of hours earlier by State Police on a DUI charge. [Chicago Breaking News]
  • What turned into a late night swim in Evanston concluded with a search and rescue operation and the swimmer in trouble with the law. [Sun-Times]
  • ComEd sues Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. over unpaid electric bills. [Crain's]
  • The FBI is looking for a suspect in a bank robbery on the Southwest Side. [Chicago Breaking News]
  • Naperville School district 204 closed 19 schools due to today's heat. [ABC 7]
  • Go see former Chicagoista Erin Shea Smith read at tomorrow's Paper Machete. (Also, "SNL" veteran Julia Sweeney). [The Paper Machete]