Extra Extra: Cops Warn Of Series Of Robberies Around Bucktown And Logan Square
- Police have issued a community alert saying a rash of robberies have broken out in the Bucktown and Logan Square area. Police say a lone male is approaching female victims and taking their purses, money and cell phones in the late evening and early morning. [ABC]
- Rumor has it Mayor Rahm Emanuel is trying to clean up his language, telling his aides, "No more cussing for me, and I am not fudging kidding." [Chicago Reader]
- Three trains crashed and derailed in Northwest Indiana, causing a massive fire. Only two people were injured. [Sun-Times]
- Kansas's Speaker of the House has come under fire for forwarding an email wherein First Lady Michelle Obama is compared to the Grinch, and she is referred to as "Mrs. YoMama." [Lawrence Journal-World]
- Ald. Proco Joe Moreno (1st Ward) spoke out against the attack on an 18-year-old high school student near the Congress Theater in Logan Square. He pledged to install more lighting in the area. [Moreno Newsletter]
