By Steve Rhodes
“Jenny McCarthy will officially be joining The View as co-host, Barbara Walters confirmed Monday on the ABC talk show,” the Los Angeles Times reports.
“Though she launched her own little-watched talk show on VH1 earlier this year, McCarthy has remained in the spotlight in recent years mostly due to her support for the discredited theory that childhood vaccines cause autism.”
And let’s not forget about the Daily Jenny. I’m dying to know how things worked out for Jordan.
Burke Bank Skank
“A Northwest Side bank whose owners have long ties to City Hall is suing Ald. Edward M. Burke’s son and daughter-in-law for more than $600,000 over a failed development on the Southwest Side,” the Sun-Times reports.
“Belmont Bank’s owners include zoning attorney James Banks, a nephew of retired Ald. William Banks; trucking magnate Fred B. Barbara, a friend of former Mayor Richard M. Daley who got rich hauling the city’s garbage, and former state Sen. James DeLeo.
“The bank says Edward M. Burke Jr., an assistant chief deputy to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, and his wife Jacqueline Burke, who works for the clout-heavy United Neighborhood Organization, are on the hook for a loan they and two other couples got from the bank four years ago to redevelop the shuttered Froedtert Malt factory in the 2100 block of West 51st Place.”
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Reminder: “UNO already operates five publicly funded charter schools in Burke’s ward. But his ties to the group go beyond that. Burke’s daughter-in-law, Jacqueline Burke, has worked for UNO since 2009, according to UNO payroll records.”
Just to show the tangled strands beneath the sauce.
Men’s Darehouse
Well, if he can’t guarantee I’m gonna like the way I look, I’m not buying.
Kirk Work
Kirk Dillard opens his gubernatorial campaign as the Beachwood Bookmakers’ favorite to win the Republican nomination, but also with a whopper.
This Just In
Obama Explains The Difference Between His Spying And Bush’s Spying.
The Cub Factor
A midseason mailbag to answer all your Jumbo questions.
U-Verse Sucks
Disadvantages the disabled.
The Weekend In Chicago Rock
Including: Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Wilco, My Morning Jacket, The Meditations, and Fatoumata Diawara.
Robert Loerzel has the spectacular photos from the Diawara show.
Her Journey To The Loop’s Last Remaining Bookstores
Our very own Natasha Julius goes on an adventure.
Following Frantic Frank Lane
Which lessons has Rick Hahn learned? In The White Sox Report.
SportsMonday
Will return next week.
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The Beachwood Tip Line: Frantic and frank.
Posted on July 15, 2013