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Midday News Links

By Staff in News on Oct 27, 2011 5:40PM

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  • This year's Daley Plaza Christmas tree has been chosen. [Sun-Times]
  • A juror has been removed from the trial of William Cellini. [Sun-Times]
  • Plans for moving the Chicago Children's Museum have been removed from new proposals to renovate the northeast corner of Grant Park. [Chicago Breaking News]
  • Broadway in Chicago launched an "audience rewards" program. [Broadway in Chicago]
  • Chicago ranks third among the best American cities for trick or treating. [The Atlantic]
  • Ben Joravsky gives us another primer in property taxes as ammunition the next time your alderman lies to you about TIFs. [Reader]
  • The Daily Herald profiles Justin Miller, a 2010 Streamwood High School graduate who taught himself to drum with one arm after losing the other to cancer. [Daily Herald]