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Hunters Nightclub, a suburban gay bar that gained international media attention earlier this year by instituting a door policy banning patrons whose ID photos do not match their gender presentation, is the subject of an activist demonstration planned for Fri., Oct. 23, at 11 p.m. Transgendered Chicagoans and their allies will "storm" the bar dressed in drag and gender-variant gear as a challenge to the policy they (plus the ACLU and gay media nationwide) consider discriminatory.

Probably not. But in the wake of a series of tax hikes levied around the Chicago area, it seems people are downright pissed.

... that REO Speedwagon is ridin' the storm out to Elk Grove Village for an in-store appearance tomorrow at a Wal-Mart (801 Meacham Road, Elk Grove Village). If you can't fight this feeling that keeps coming over you when you watch the "We Love the '70s and '80s" shows, you might want to head out there and check it out.

Just as the city of Chicago is set to start enforcing its public smoking ban, Elk Grove Village is considering banning the sale of cigarettes completely. Mayor Craig Johnson told the Tribune it would be hypocritical to pass a current village proposal to ban smoking in public while still allowing the sale of cigarettes. If passed, the Trib says that a ban on selling smokes in Elk Grove would be the first of its kind in the country, according to the American Lung Association and the Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco.

Back in September, the city got approval from the FAA for a $15 billion project to add runways and reconfigure existing runways in an effort to reduce flight delays. With hardly enough time to go out and buy a new shovel to start the digging, the US Court of Appeals came in and ordered a halt to allow time to consider objections from those opposed to the expansion. Seriously, they came in the SAME day...

O'Hare is one of the world's busiest airport, and Midway is undoubtably the world's most penned in airport. So what's a growing city gonna do? Build what could be the nation's biggest and most expensive public works program in the middle of Southwest suburban farm country, in the form of an airport.

Police have charged Tonya Vasilev with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths-by-stabbing of her 9-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter. The father arrived at the family's Hoffman Estates home around 9:20 p.m. Wednesday, found his son bloody, tried to administer CPR then called 911. Police took both parents into custody for questioning.