Extra Extra: Chicago Gas Prices Hit All-Time High

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Mar 26, 2012 11:00PM

Jason Curescu

• Chicago gas prices hit an all-time high today of $4.67 in the city and $4.51 cents in the suburbs. Prices have spiked $0.18 in the last week. That makes us the highest in the nation except for a couple cities in Hawaii. [Tribune]


• The Blagojeviches have taken their Ravenswood Manor home off of the market. [NBC]


• A Buffalo Grove high school has decided to quit using Indians as their mascot, opting instead to call themselves the Eagles. Your move, Cleveland. [Sun-Times]


• A Metra train has killed a Lake Forest high school student for the third time in three months. [Tribune]


• Pres. Bill Clinton will speak at a summit of Nobel Peace laureates in Chicago in April. [Gov. Quinn release]


• Is driving while using a cell phone really that risky? [Expired Meter]


• Do you have trouble taking Don Draper seriously now that he's done lighthearted comedy work? [Reader]