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Extra Extra: Taste Of Chicago Concert Riders Revealed

By Chuck Sudo in News on Jul 24, 2014 10:30PM

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  • Jeff Tweedy and Lucinda Williams still got paid despite their Taste of Chicago shows being canceled due to weather. And check out the concert riders. [Tribune]
  • The S.S. Eastland keeled over on its side along the Chicago River 99 years ago today. From 2011, here's our Weekend Flashback post on the disaster which killed 844 people. [Chicagoist]
  • Standard and Poors is sounding the alarm on Illinois’ credit rating again. [Tribune]
  • Kenneth Griffin, the richest man in Illinois, is reportedly divorcing. [Robert Feder]
  • An informant said reputed mobster Bobby Panozzo joked about how hard it was to kill an elderly woman. [Sun-Times]

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