By Steve Rhodes
Abbreviated edition.
“Motorists who park illegally in private lots and return to find their vehicles booted may soon have to pay a little extra for using credit cards to pay the $140 removal fee,” the Sun-Times reports.
“Ald. Emma Mitts (37th) chairman of the City Council’s License Committee, wants to empower private booters now roaming free in more than half of Chicago to charge a ‘convenience fee’ to recoup the processing fee they must absorb when motorists pay with plastic.”
Emma Mitts, you are Today’s Worst Person In Chicago.
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The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #108: Bullsology
Is in pre-production The (Relatively) Sad Saga of Derrick Rose. Plus: The Jimmy Butler Trade That Wasn’t (Yet); Breakfast In America; The Vincible Cubs; White Sox Are Red Sox Hot!; and The Mundanity Of Modern Mascots..
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Beachwood Photo Booth: Bearground
Neither back nor fore, just bear.
At New Wave Coffee in Logan Square.
The Week In Chicago Rock
Featuring: Marrow, Sarra and the Bats, Ben Watt, Black Pistol Fire, Blue Mud, and Leyla McCalla.
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BeachBook
Majority Of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Are Millionaires.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
Vote #Chexit.
Rauner Won’t Agree to Budget Deal With CPS ‘Bailout’ https://t.co/8TMNIlELke
— Mary Ann Ahern (@MaryAnnAhernNBC) June 24, 2016
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Little known fact: UK Cameron’s campaign adviser was Jim Messina who was Obama’s campaign adviser & heads biggest pro-Hillary super PAC
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) June 24, 2016
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Yep, those criticising the Leave voters really need to take a trip up to post-industrial northern england… https://t.co/EsGi05Rqtz
— Melissa Nisbett (@MelissaNisbett) June 24, 2016
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NYPD Inspector General says broken windows policing doesn’t reduce serious crime, burdens communities. https://t.co/lqVqV5tVrc
— Peter Bibring (@PeterBibring) June 23, 2016
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The Beachwood Tronc Line: Wrexit.
Posted on June 24, 2016