WTF

Smashing Bumpkins? Billy Corgan To Launch Wrestling Reality Show

By Elizabeth C.

SMASHING PUMPKINS’ LEADER BILLY CORGAN ANNOUNCED ON A RADIO SHOW THIS WEEK THAT HIS wrestling club Resistance Pro will be the subject of a reality TV show.

Corgan, who launched the club last year, told MLW special host Saint Laurent that he has signed with a “big reality show producer.” The new show will offer a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes look at running a wrestling organization.

NEW DOCUMENTS UNCOVERED

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First Prescription For A Dying President: Brandy & Water

By Elizabeth C.

BIG NEWS FROM THE LAND OF LINCOLN: A doctor who rushed to President Abraham Lincoln’s side after he was shot by an assassin’s bullet prescribed brandy and water — stat.

Dr. Charles Leale was sitting 40 feet away from the President inside Ford’s Theater when Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth. “I immediately ran to the Presidents box,” Leale recounts in a newly discovered report uncovered in a National Archives file. “As soon as the door was opened was admitted and introduced to Mrs. Lincoln when she exclaimed several times, ‘O Doctor, do what you can for him, do what you can!’ ” His directive: bring the president brandy and water.

STRIKE THEM OUT

Come On, Rahm, Play Hardball With The Ricketts

By Elizabeth C.

THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IS AN AWFUL LOT OF LOOT TO SPEND ON A LOSING BASEBALL TEAM, but Chicagoans are inexplicably loyal to the hapless Cubs.

NOTHING PURE IN THIS WORLD

Bride In Wedding Dress Found Dead In Tub

By Elizabeth C.

ABRIDE IN HER WEDDING DRESS WAS FOUND STABBED TO DEATH IN HER BATHTUB. Estrella Carrera, 25, was discovered Sunday two days after she tied the knot with a 30-year-old unidentified Chicago man.

HARDENED CRIMINAL?

‘Anonymous’ Suspect Enjoys Life Of The Mind While Imprisoned

By Elizabeth C.

AT FIRST GLANCE, THE HEADLINE READS LIKE AN ONION article:

“Chicago man in Anonymous hacking case biding time in jail by reading”

WASTED LIVES

Former Gang Member Guilty Of Killing Jennifer Hudson’s Family

By Elizabeth C.

A CHICAGO JURY FOUND WILLIAM BALFOUR GUILTY OF MURDERING THE MOTHER, BROTHER AND NEPHEW OF OSCAR-WINNING SINGER AND ACTRESS JENNIFER HUDSON.

The guilty verdict came Friday night, only an hour after the judge received a message that three jurors remained unswayed of Balfour’s guilt. Jennifer Hudson wept at the announcement; Balfour was unmoved.

IMAGINE

Chicago Silkscreen Artist Seeks ‘Kickstart’ For Gig Poster Gallery

By Elizabeth C.

THE FUTURE HOME OF GALERIE F IN CHICAGO’S GRITTY LOGAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD IS CURRENTLY AN EYESORE, a boarded up storefront obscuring rotting floor and ripped out walls and a single forgotten porcelain toilet.

But silkscreen artist Zissou Tasseff-Elenkoff sees opportunity: a blank space upon which to build a 9-to-5 gallery selling highly collectible gig posters produced by silkscreen artists from around the world.

CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Jennifer Hudson First Witness To Testify Against Former Brother-In-Law Accused Of Killing Three Family Members

By Elizabeth C.

JENNIFER HUDSON REPEATEDLY WARNED HER SISTER NOT TO MARRY THE MAN accused of killing three family members of the Academy-award winning actress.

“I would tell Julia over and over again not to marry William,” Hudson testified today against William Balfour at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse.

OBSESSED WITH DEATH

Of Dolls & Murder Retells Ghoulish Hobby Of Millionaire Heiress Sleuth

By Linda Seccaspina

IF YOU’VE BEEN A CSI FAN FOR A FEW YEARS YOU’LL FONDLY REMEMBER “The Miniature Killer” series that premiered in the seventh season and continued until the suspect was finally captured at the very end.

The murderer built meticulous scale models to reflect each crime and left them at his murder scenes or sent them to persons involved with the cases. Victims were either bludgeoned, poisoned, or electrocuted and their blood was used as paint in each dollhouse model.

Until today I had no idea that that specific CSI series was Inspired by Chicago heiress Frances Glessner Lee who created 18 miniature crime scene dioramas that comprise what is known as the “The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.”

RETREAT

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Rosie Bows Out Of Chicago; Is Break From OWN To Follow?

By Linda Seccaspina & Elizabeth C.

WELL, THAT WAS FAST.

Just five months after landing in Chicago with a splash, Rosie O’Donnell has dumped her Chicago mini mansion and is headed back to New York.