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Police: Drunk Driver Peed On Floor, Played ‘Air Piano’ At Police Station

CBS Chicago

Prosecutors say a drunken driver first peed on the floor, then sang and played “air piano” for the officers who arrested him on the city’s Far South Side. »

Drunk urinated on police station floor: cops

Chicago SunTimesNews

A drunk driver urinated on the floor of a police station, then played “air piano” while he sang for the cops who arrested him, prosecutors say. Santa Ana Campuzano, 33, of the Back of the Yards neighborhood, was spotted by cops passed out in his 2002 F... »

At Least 20 Wounded In Weekend Violence Through Sunday Morning

CBS Chicago

At least 20 people, including a 10-year-girl, a 16-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy, have been wounded in shootings throughout the city since Friday evening. »

13 Wounded In Citywide Shootings Friday And Saturday

CBS Chicago

At least 13 people, including a 10-year-old girl, were wounded in separate shootings throughout the city Friday evening and Saturday morning. »

Saul Alinsky Surfaces As GOP Bogeyman

HuffingtonPost.com Chicago

Republicans in general, and Newt Gingrich in specific, pepper their rhetoric with mentions of Saul Alinsky. "And I believe, if we have a big election... »

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The Art in Brewing Beer: Arcade Brewery

Bad At Sports

This post is part of an ongoing series about art and beer.  Over the weekend, I met artist and brewer Christopher Tourre at his house as he and Lance Curran, his partner in Arcade Brewery, brewed a five and a half gallon batch of beer they call Oatmilk... »

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B12 Solipsism

Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council (the country's oldest community organization, founded by Alinsky in 1939) http://t.co/5F023dHh »

Saul Alinsky in his own words

Chicago Tribune Change of Subject

Highlights from Saul Alinsky's 1972 interview with Playboy: When a community, any kind of community, is hopeless and helpless, it requires somebody from outside to come in and stir things up. That’s my job — to unsettle them, to make... »

Latino Activists Pushing New Ward Map As Compromise « CBS Chicago

The Sixth Ward

Latino Activists Pushing New Ward Map As Compromise « CBS Chicago Now, Elisa Alfonzo, an official with the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund said MALDEF is putting a map before the council that would keep the Chinatown and Back of the Y... »

Soup & Bread At The Hideout Kicks Off January 4

Chicagoist

Proceeds from the Jan. 4 kickoff event go to the Casa Catalina Basic Human Needs Center in Back of the Yards. [ more › ] »

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