Extra Extra: Suburban Police Chief Charged With Second DUI
- The police chief of south suburban Robbins was charged with drunken driving after he was arrested in Midlothian. This is Robbins Police Chief Johnny Holmes' second DUI in three years. [Sun-Times]
- A Gage Park man was shot multiple times and killed just blocks from his home. [Tribune]
- Unemployment is down in 11 of 12 Illinois metropolitan areas. Decatur saw an increase to 10.2 percent in November 2012 over 9.8 percent unemployment in November 2011. [State Journal-Register]
- Does having an Irish name help you get elected in Chicago? [Chicago Magazine]
- Tribune Co. papers are dropping the Associated Press news wire. In 2010, the Chicago Tribune and other papers started cutting back on the amount of AP content used in favor of Thomson Reuters, and now all Trib Co. papers but the LA Times are cutting out the AP altogether. [TimeOut Chicago]
- A re-run episode of Chicago Fire that aired this week showed two firefighters pinned down by gunfire, and some say the choice to run the episode was distasteful in light of the shooting in Webster, N.Y. The episode first ran in November, and it was chosen for re-run more than a week prior. [New York Times]
