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Extra Extra: Obama Cracks Himself Up At White House Correspondents' Dinner

By Amy Cavanaugh in News on Apr 29, 2012 9:00PM

• The President's targets last night at the WHCD dinner included Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, and the Secret Service. [Washington Post]

• A cab driver refused to pick up a man, then hit him with his cab. [Tribune]

• A Lake Forest student was found dead in his Boston College dorm room. [Tribune]

• The Sun-Times has a gallery of images from today's CTA derailment. [Sun-Times]

• CPS School principals will get more money to spend next year. The downside? One hundred positions will be cut. [WBEZ]

• One person died and 17 were injured after a storm blew through a beer tent after the Cardinals game. [Sun-Times]

• The remains of a World War II pilot killed during training in England were brought home to southern Illinois. [ABC 7]