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Extra Extra: Cars Damaged By Falling Concrete On Eisenhower Expressway

By Samantha Abernethy in News on May 14, 2012 11:00PM


  • Two cars were damaged by concrete falling from a crumbling bridge over the Eisenhower Expressway this afternoon. IDOT has inspected the bridge over the eastbound lanes of the Eisenhower between Pulaski Road and Independence Boulevard. [CBS]

  • Bloomington, Ind., police exchanged shots with naked man carrying gun. [Herald-Times]

  • Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says Groupon's accounting is not the reason he left the board. [Crain's]

  • Chicago cops who tried to shut down a noisy party early Saturday were attacked by a Mexican “Ranchera” band which tried to steal one of their guns, prosecutors alleged. [Sun-Times]

  • A self-described architecture buff is scrambling to dismantle a Frank Lloyd Wright-connected cottage in Wilmette and move it to Wauconda. [Tribune]

  • One in three young adults with autism lag jobs and no technical or college education. [ABC7]

  • Five adults and an infant were saved from a fire in Broadview. [Sun-Times]

  • For the first time since the 1980s, it's cheaper to buy a home than it is to rent, yet more people are opting to rent. [WBEZ]

  • The top baby names of 2011 were Jacob and Sophia. The former is probably because of Twilight, and we hope the second is because of Golden Girls. [ABC7]