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Extra Extra: Daley To Make First Public Speaking Appearance Since Falling Ill [UPDATE]

By Chuck Sudo in News on Jan 8, 2015 11:30PM

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Photo credit: Greg Wass

Update 6:25 p.m.: Looks like that Daley public speaking engagement is not happening.

  • Former Mayor Richard M. Daley will speak at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan next week, in his first public speaking appearance since falling ill last year. [NBC Chicago]
  • The stakes are high for new ABC 7 anchor Terrell Brown, who will succeed Hosea Sanders as co-anchor of the station's morning newscast Monday. [Robert Feder]
  • Phil Huckelberry profiles mayoral candidate Willie Wilson. [Gapers Block]
  • A Loyola University psychologist analyzed Chance the Rapper's lyrics from the Acid Rap mixtape to now to see how fame has affected the rapper. [Chicago magazine]
  • Michael Miner weighs in on the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris with customary grace and gravitas. [Reader]