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Extra Extra: Blackhaws Fan Left In Stitches At First Game

By Selena Fragassi in News on Mar 7, 2015 9:20PM

  • The player of the Blackhawks game Friday night should go to fan Alexis Bovard who took a hit of plexiglass to the head from a player collision and stayed to watch the rest of the match after being stitched up. It was her first game ever. [Huffington Post Chicago]
  • It's not home sweet home for Pete Toalson after the Land and Sea Dept. owner was denied loans for his Garfield Park mansion he wanted to rehab. The reason: the area's high foreclosure numbers. [Gapers Block]
  • It's cats gone wild after bobcats are spotted in a Lake County Forest Preserve, leading some experts to believe they are growing in numbers and could reverse their spot on a threatened species list. [Tribune]
  • R&B singer Chrisette Michele has words of wisdom for students of South Shore International College Prep after being inducted into the school's Hall of Fame on Friday. [Sun-Times]
  • A mother and her two children die after being hit by a semi-truck in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. They were holding hands crossing the street, and the truck driver claimed to not have seen them. [Tribune]

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