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Midday News Links: Teen Girl Stabbed At South Side High School

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Mar 6, 2012 7:40PM



  • A 16-year-old girl was stabbed this morning at Hirsch Metro School on the South Side. She was in critical condition at first, but is now stable. Another teen girl is in custody. [ABC7]

  • An Indiana woman lost both of her legs while saving her children from a tornado. [Fox Chicago]

  • The Chicago City flag is civic iconography done right. It's highly symbolic, and it's a ubiquitous fixture in Chicago scenery. [Urbanophile]

  • A woman's body found in a wooded area near a train station in a Zion park is being investigated as suspicious. [Tribune]

  • Sun-Times columnist Rick Morrissey is keeping tabs on White Sox manager Robin Ventura in Arizona. Guess what? Ventura isn’t Ozzie Guillen. [Sun-Times]