Midday News Links: Mega Millions Jackpot Nears Record
By Chuck Sudo in News on Dec 17, 2013 7:45PM
- The Mega Millions jackpot now sits at $636 million, near the record jackpot of $656 million set in March 2012. [Tribune]
- Terrance Noland has an amazing profile of Whitney Young basketball standout Jahlil Okafor, who could be the top pick in the NBA draft in a couple years. [Chicago magazine]
- A woman died after falling into the Chicago River Michigan Avenue early Tuesday. [Sun-Times]
- Two people were rescued after a car plunged into a Bolingbrook pond. [NBC 5]
- A Cook County judge will rule next year on a novel class-action petition filed by attorneys seeking immediate evidentiary hearings for more than a dozen men still imprisoned despite their allegedly credible claims that they were tortured into confessing by disgraced former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge or detectives under him. [Tribune]
