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Midday News Links: Red Light Revenue Drops In Gurnee

By Chuck Sudo in News on Mar 2, 2012 8:25PM

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  • Red light revenue has dropped in Gurnee, which they’re using to claim red light cameras make people drive safer. [Fox News Chicago]
  • Connor Lowry, a U.S. Marine from Beverly, was killed in Afghanistan. [Sun-Times]
  • Early reaction to the makeover of the NBC 5 news set has been met with a lot of "ugh." [Robert Feder/TimeOut Chicago]
  • Judge James Zagel ordered the state to turn over nearly $22,000 from Rod Blagojevich's pension to pay the penalties levied in his conviction. [Tribune]
  • In other Blago news, State house Speaker Michael Madigan has sent out campaign literature invoking Blago's name. [Sun-Times]