Midday News Links: Two U Of C Professors Win Nobel Prize In Economics
By Chuck Sudo in News on Oct 14, 2013 6:45PM
- University of Chicago professors Lars Peter Hansen and Eugene Fama will share the Nobel Prize in economics with Yale University's Robert Shiller. [Sun-Times]
- In something of a Kafkaesque nightmare, residents of the 7000 block of South Parnell in Englewood are in fear of rats so large the cats in the neighborhood are afraid. [DNAInfo Chicago]
- A new report by Seattle-based RootMetrics shows AT&T has the best wireless network in Chicago. Someone needs to do that test again. [Tribune]
- Heriberto Viramontes goes on trial this week. He is accused of the brutal baseball bat beating of Irish woman Natasha McShane in Bucktown in 2010. [Tribune]
- U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL, 8) discussed some of the local impact the federal government shutdown has had in her district during remarks made on the House floor Saturday. [Progress Illinois]