Midday News Links: Cecily Strong To Co-Anchor SNL's 'Weekend Update'

By Chuck Sudo in News on Sep 16, 2013 7:10PM

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• Oak Park native and Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong will co-anchor the show’s “Weekend Update” segment this season. Anything that reduces Seth Meyers's screen time is a good thing. [Tribune]


• Workers at 26th and California are grumbling about a possible plan by the county to have them pay for parking. [CBS Chicago]


• The new hotel at McCormick Place will be a Marriott Marquis. [Crain's]


• A former Will County Sheriff’s investigator claims he was forced to hack into the iPad of the wife of the deputy chief of the department. [Sun-Times]


• The Red Line South Branch reconstruction enters its final phase. [NBC Chicago]