As I type this, a severe storm with some tornado sightings is ripping through the Chicago area, including downtown. The worst of it seems to have passed me (about half a mile West of the loop) a few minutes ago, but a few tornadoes were reported, including as close to me as Logan Square. Not…
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Alligators in the River!
Well, how about this? Alligator found in Chicago River. I thought the killer bees would get here first, honestly.
Belle Gunness Update!
Rich Vitton of the Forest Park Historical Society has sent us an update on Belle Gunness, the murderess about whom we blogged earlier in the week. Belle, if you’ll recall, was exhumed from her resting place at a cemetery in Forest Park to see if the headless corpse was actually hers. According to Andrea Simmons,…
Rising from the Suburbs….Belle Gunness!
Belle Gunness, the female blue beard, has finally been dug up. We usually think of Gunnesss as an Indiana serial killer; we have plenty of our own around here, so we don’t mind letting them have this one. Sort of throwing them a bone, if you will. It was in Indiana that Belle set up…
Will Roosevelt’s Ghost Endorse a Candidate for 2008?
A few days before Super Tuesday, we ran a miniature investigation in the Florentine Room of the Congress Hotel, a hotel reputed to be haunted by Theodore Roosevelt himself, to see if we could get his ghost to endorse a presidential candidate. While Roosevelt may or may not haunt the hotel, he does have a…