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By Margaret Lyons in News on Mar 4, 2008 12:33AM

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Make your own Obama logo. This isn't an endorsement. Think of this more as a challenge. Get creative.

Local federal judge and U of C law professor Mark R. Filip was named deputy attorney general today.

Hey, don't forget, it's No Cussing Week.

And just when we were going to say "holy shit." A pregnant woman was injured when a 50-pound piece of concrete fell off a city viaduct and crashed through her windshield.

The Dick Tracy museum in Woodstock is closing in June. [via]

A Chicago police officer got in some trouble at a bar in Forest Park this weekend. First he was "jumping in the air, then landing on tables with his back and breaking them." (Secretly a pro wrestler? Jeeze louise.) Then he was "combative" with the arresting officers, and he spit blood at a paramedic. Perhaps unsurprisingly, "it was determined that his blood-alcohol level exceeded .08." Really? You don't say.

Hey, a dog in boots.

Zomgs, another sinkhole? This one ate a minivan.

Crain's named Google Chicago's best place to work.

Weird guy at a mall deemed really weird but not actually dangerous.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc, NBC 5.

Fabulous old guy face-off: One or Two? (Two's site is NSFW if your work disapproves of bosoms or foul language.)