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Extra Extra: Remembering Bernie Stone

By Chuck Sudo in News on Dec 23, 2014 10:30PM

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  • Mick Dumke, who had a famous altercation with Bernie Stone on "Chicago Tonight," remembers the colorful alderman who died Monday at age 87. [Reader]
  • In a new book, Rod Blagojevich's brother Robert says federal prosecutors tried to make him a "pawn" in their prosecution of his brother, and that Rod Blagojevich no longer speaks to him. [Tribune]
  • Porkchop reveals a second Loop location. [DNAInfo Chicago]
  • A Wisconsin man was charged with loving a horse too much. [NBC Chicago]
  • Earl Hawkins, a notorious member of the El Rukn street gang whose cooperation with law enforcement resulted in dozens of his fellow gang members being sent to prison, is a free man. [Tribune]

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