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Midday News Links

By Staff in News on Dec 5, 2011 6:40PM

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  • All eyes are on the new Cubs brass as Baseball's winter meetings begin in Dallas. [Tribune]
  • Longtime WGN overnight hosts Steve King and Johnnie Putnam will broadcast their final show Friday. [Sun-Times]
  • Homeless veterans are discovering help is hard to find. [Daily Herald]
  • More than 100 taxi drivers paid their respects to a comrade who was killed by a stray bullet last week. [Sun-Times]
  • Research show fewer teens are sexting. (That's apparently the realm of politicians.) [ABC 7]
  • The Reader rounds up its coverage of the Park Grill scandal. [Reader]
  • Mike Ditka waits until now to express his doubts about Caleb Hanie. [ESPN Chicago]