Extra Extra: Early Holiday Shopping Results In Less Black Friday Sales
By Chuck Sudo in News on Dec 3, 2013 12:00AM
- The early Thanksgiving shopping took a lot of steam out of Black Friday retail business. By this logic, expect retailers to stay open 24 hours starting Thanksgiving eve next year. [Crain's]
- Former WMAQ-TV and current Good Morning America weekend meteorologist Ginger Zee is taking over as for Sam Champion on "GMA" and across ABC News. [Sun-Times]
- Jimmy Lee Blank, who spent summer in Wicker Park as part of the transient group known as the "Gutter Punks," was found dead in the bathroom of a Manhattan show store last week. [DNAInfo Chicago]
- Indiana activist Rudy Lopez is in his 12th day of a hunger strike he vows will not end until immigration reform is reached. [WBEZ]
- Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said guard Jimmy Butler is still not ready to return to the court. (Derrick Rose is still sad.) [a href="http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/outside-shot/Chicago-Bulls-Jimmy-Butler-Tom-Thibodeau-Turf-Toe-234071221.html">NBC Chicago]
