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08.13.07

Chicago News Roundup for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday August 11-13, 2007 naperville, highway, gas, batman, gelato, south shore, ravenswood, hotel, indiana, airport, roundup, shootings, homeless, magnificent mile, history, gang (0)

Wizard World lights up for ‘Dark Knight’
The Joker was serious business over the weekend at Wizard World Chicago, the pop culture and comic book convention that invades Rosemont each summer.
Warner Bros. chose the convention to show the first live footage of Heath Ledger as the Joker and shed a little light on “The Dark Knight,” […]
07.31.07

Chicago News Roundup for Monday and Tueday July 30-31, 2007 highrise, north side, austin, film, los angeles, gas, vegas, hotel, NBA, casinos, south side, transit, roundup, west side, shootings, wrigleyville, lake michigan, great lakes, gang (0)

What’s the USA’s most-visited city?
When you consider only hotel rooms sold, Vegas’ 40 million hits the jackpot, followed by the Orlando area (27.2 million), L.A. (25.5 million), Chicago (24.8 million) and New York City (23.9 million).
[via USA Today]

Teenage Boy Shot On South Side
A 15-year-old boy was wounded Monday night in a South Side shooting […]