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Extra Extra: Gasoline Prices Drop, But Chicago Still Pays The Most

By Samantha Abernethy in News on May 6, 2012 10:30PM


  • The average national price of gasoline has fallen seven cents per gallon in the last two weeks. However, with an average price of $4.32 per gallon, Chicago still has the highest price in the cities surveyed. [AP]

  • A 20-year-old University of Illinois student lost her foot when she jumped from a moving train in Champaign. The woman and a man were spraying graffiti on a freight car when it started moving, and she failed to jump far enough from the train. [News-Gazette]

  • Firefighters rescue quadriplegic man from South Side blaze. [CBS]

  • The guy who received the postcard mailed from the Shedd in 1955 visited the aquarium. It’s a really cute story. [Shedd]

  • The body of a missing Ottawa, Ill., man was found along the Illinois River. [ABC7]