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- A no. 95 Cottage Grove CTA bus crashed into a pole, cracking the windshield and injuring 26 people. [Fox]
- The Illinois senate passed a pension reform bill. [Tribune]
- The McCormick Foundation is funding the creation of an oral history of black soldiers. [ABC]
- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi finally stepped down. He has the elocution of George W. Bush (He called Obama "tanned") and the sexual antics of Ron Jeremy (sex parties), yet it was his failure to manage the debt crisis that ultimately brought him down. [CNN]
- Jim DeRogatis says something fishy is going on at the Department of Cultural Affairs. [WBEZ]
- The mayor of West Valley City, Utah, pretended to be a freelance journalist and reported about himself. [Deseret News]
