Extra Extra: State Tourism Site Adds LGBT Section

By Amy Cavanaugh in News on Feb 11, 2012 11:00PM

• A man was killed and a police officer was injured when a car rear ended an Illinois State Police squad car on Saturday morning. [Tribune]

• When she was a kid, Girl and the Goat's Stephanie Izard used to pick cheese over toys. [WBEZ]

• Two children reported '"abandoned" on the South Side were actually dropped off at the wrong house. [Sun-Times]

• A man was shot and killed by police after he tried to run over an officer on the South Side. [CBS Chicago]

• Gov. Quinn has added an LGBT section to Illinois' state tourism site, the nicely melodic Enjoy Illinois. [ABC7]

• Longtime Chicago Symphony Orchestra principal English horn and oboist Grover Schiltz died this week at age 80. His interesting obituary notes that he and his wife "bred show dogs, including Pembroke Welsh corgis and dachshunds, producing numerous champions over the years. They also were avid collectors of nomadic rugs, corkscrews and ceramics who traveled the world in pursuit of their hobbies." [Tribune]