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Crain's reports that Kraft is in talks to sell its Maxwell House brand coffee to Sara Lee. This is part of Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld's ongoing efforts to raise enough capital to increase its bid to purchase confectioner Cadbury. That bid now stands at over $16 billion. Kraft has until November 9 to raise $9 billion in financing and make a formal offer for Cadbury to the British Takeover Panel. [Crain's]

Too much work to empty a bottle of beer into a pot to boil those brats? Never fear. MillerCoors and Sara Lee are now wingmen to bring you a new brat that has already been cooked in beer. The new name of the brat is: The Hillshire Farm Miller High Life Beer Brat. (Okay, okay...it's not a wiener in the true sense...but we're feeling juvenile today and where else you gonna get a headline like that?)

Second base, center field and the hot corner aren't the only vacancies the White Sox are looking to fill. Sara Lee's announcement last year they were getting out of the kosher hot dog game by cutting its Best Kosher line left a void at hot dog stands inside a Sox Park.

A father of five was killed yesterday when he tried to stop his minivan from being carjacked. Eric Holmes, 36, grabbed onto the van's luggage rack and was killed when the car jacker ran into a concrete barrier. [Trib]

Blago and Mrs. Blago raked in $267,490 last year — $19,000 less than the year before. Still, that's about six times the median household income for Illinois. Todd Stroger told the Trib he'd "make the hard decisions," when it comes to his insane budget. Hard decisions like trying to raise the sales tax in Chicago to 11 percent. Speaking of people who want more of your money, ComEd wants to raise prices, too. And...

Good news, women of Illinois: We're in good company! Four of the top ten most powerful women in business are based here (or run companies that are). Irene Rosenfeld, chairman and CEO of Kraft Foods, comes in at number 5, thanks to acquiring a $7.2 billion "global biscuit business." Pat Woertz, chairman, CEO, and president of Decatur–based agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland, follows her at 6 because she brought in $44 billion in revenue. Number...

SHOOTING: Two homeless men shot in a 24 hour span in Uptown -- they appear to be unrelated. In more shooting news (why is there so much?!): Police have two "persons of interest" in custody Sunday morning after two teenagers were shot in a playlot on the South Side in the Woodlawn neighborhood, blocks from the University of Chicago campus. TRAINS: Our dear friend warns us: This is why you NEVER put headphones in...

Here are some other news items of note while we're at Millennium Park enjoying Muhal Richard Abrams and Reginald Robinson: The U.S. attorney's office has joined an ongoing Cook County probe into the rogue actions of an elite squad of the Chicago Police Department . Blue Line passengers can expect (more) delays starting this weekend. The sculptor who created Berwyn's spindle claims that the shopping plaza where it sits is "prostituting" the sculpture under...

- Y'all know we were under a flood watch today? Could've fooled us. - The Chicago Police department unsuccessfully tried to fire an officer for punching an elderly man in the face during a fender bender. Now that same officer is accused of doing nothing while fellow officers beat up patrons at Carol's Pub in January. - All those "It's Gonna Happen" t-shirts, hats, and wristbands being sold at Cubs games are the brainchild...

Another innovation previewed at the National Restaurant Association's trade show this past weekend was Sara Lee's new coffee and dessert pairing tool. The pairing tool, which Sara Lee unveiled two weeks ago, is a response to the increasing diversity of coffee options in restaurants these days. It also takes the guesswork out of finding the right dessert to go with your decaf.

We know that it's not easy to find a job, depending on the availability, your skill set and your hygeine, but what if you just lost one? What becomes of those broken-hearted?

"Bears Fan Bears Van" via panagrapher.

Yesterday was a busy day for three of Chicagoland's most prominent food corporations: Wrigley's jumped into the chocolate market, Sara Lee announced a new research and development plan and Kraft sold the Cream of Wheat brand to B&G Foods Inc.

Forbes’ 2006 list of “100 most powerful women” includes five Chicago-area names. The most powerful woman in Chicago? Sara Lee Chairman and CEO Brenda Barnes, who came in at No. 9. Cause nobody doesn't like Sara Lee.

There's a 4-day immigration march here this weekend. A pipe bomb exploded in a Metra station today. No one was hurt. One day he's a superstar, the next day, eh, not so much... Obama lost his 'favorite son' status in Kenya after making statements critical of Kenya's corruption and ethnic divisions. Dorothy Brown is running for mayor. A study was released on Wednesday that found dangerous mercury levels at 10 top Chicago-area sushi restaurant....

We can't remember the last time we drank a cup of Superior Coffee, that ubiquitous coffee found in greasy spoons throughout the city. All we remember is that it always tasted slightly salty- or maybe that was the pure goodness of Arabica beans. Or maybe we were drunk and can't tell good coffee under the influence.

That's the natural progression, right? But not with this Sara Lee. This Sara Lee has steamy sex scandals then bolts outta town.

Through Dec. 26

Every year Chicago Magazine chooses a handful of people who they believe have made our city a better place. This year they've chosen 6 people to honor as Chicagoans of the Year:

Steven McMillan, chairman of Chicago-headquartered Sara Lee, has been accused of offering a Dallas woman a high-paying promotion in exchange for sex. In a lawsuit filed last week, Brenda Jarvis says McMillan offered her a $140,000 marketing position and said that he made it clear that he expected sex in exchange. Apparently they got it on, but when Jarvis broke off the relationship a few weeks later McMillan withdrew the job offer.