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By Chuck Sudo in News on Dec 16, 2010 11:00PM

  • Charges won't be filed against a Notre Dame football player who was accused of sexual battery by a Northbrook teen who eventually committed suicide. [Chicago Breaking News]
  • The Chicago Red Stars women's professional soccer team will not play next season because of a lack of capital. [Chicago News Co-Op]
  • A girl writes to Santa and asks for a coat for her mother. [CBS2]
  • Federal authorities busted a "weed express:" six freight train cars that traveled from Mexico to Chicago Heights packed with 11 tons of marijuana. [ABC7]
  • The Onion AV Club writers drink almost as much beer as we do. We trained Gilmer well. [AV Club Chicago]
  • Chicago magazine has more on the lost street photography of Vivian Maier, whose work we profiled last year. [Chicago Mag]