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Extra Extra: Happy Hannukah!

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Dec 21, 2011 12:00AM


  • If you were dreaming of a white Hannukah, it could maybe happen, but no white Christmas. [Tribune]

  • After some jerk took off with a cancer patient's donation jar, a donor stepped in to give the patient $10,000. [WGN]

  • A woman in Winnetka has been working all year to meet all 325 of her Facebook friends, and she's close to reaching her goal. [Patch]

  • Rapper Common performed for an all-boys public high school in the South Bronx. [New York Times]

  • Sears has pledged to make hiring veterans a priority as they return to civilian life now that the war in Iraq is over. [WLS]