Extra Extra: Chicago Left Off A 'Best Cities For Pizza' List
By Chuck Sudo in News on Aug 9, 2013 11:00PM
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- Chicago was left off TripAdvisor's list of top 10 cities for pizza. Let the civic outrage begin now, preferably over a large around-the-world pie from Vito & Nick's. [Tripadvisor.com]
- Bond has been set at $1 million for Matthew Olszewski, a Glendale Heights man accused of looking for a hitman to murder his his aunt, uncle and an elderly resident of his west suburban home. [CBS Chicago]
- Dixmoor Police Chief Robert Fox was fired by the town's mayor, Dorothy Armstrong, after Fox called in Cook County Sheriff's deputies to help with a shortage of police staff last week. [Sun-Times]
- Former Sun-Times columnist, ESPN shouting head and general nice guy Jay Mariotti is back with a website and radio show network he's convinced himself is like Grantland, only for functional illiterates. Mariotti says he's just going to "be myself;" that's a double-edged sword. [Mariottishow.com, Sherman Report]
- Minghin Cuisine in Chinatown was the first business cited for violating Illinois' law banning the sale of shark fins. They had shark fin soup listed on its online menu. [NBC Chicago]
- Gov. Pat Quinn canceled a Democratic Party rally at the Illinois State Fair, but not because he was roundly booed last year, no way. [Tribune]
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