Midday News Links: It's Going To Be A Snowy New Year
By Chuck Sudo in News on Dec 30, 2013 7:30PM
- An inch of snow is expected to fall overnight and the Chicago area will receive up to another six inches through Thursday morning. [Tribune]
- Bond was denied for brothers Diante Coakley, 21, and Anthony Lee, 16. Lee and Coakley are charged in the murder of 17-year-old Eva Casara, who was pregnant with Lee's unborn baby. (The infant is fighting for her life in a suburban hospital.) [Sun-Times]
- Illinois has been hacking away at its mountain of unpaid bills. The total is now at $7.6 billion, a 15 percent reduction from 2012 according to Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka. Now will the bill collectors stop calling in the middle of the night? [Crain's, Rockford Register-Star]
- There was a spike in trains crashing into cars and pedestrians in 2013. [Daily Herald]
- Governor Pat Quinn said strengthening Illinois' economy is his top priority in 2014 but he's mum on what will happen to the state's income tax hike when it expires in 2015. Yup, it's an election year. [Fox News Chicago]
