'CHICAGO: WE'RE NOT AS MISERABLE AS _______' The city's new travel slogan is ready. Based on Forbes magazine's 2013 rating of "America's Most Miserable Cities," you could fill that blank with the names of three other cities – Detroit, Flint and Rockford – because Chicago shows up at No. 4.
* Retired general who led military response to Hurricane Katrina: National Guard could help Chicago.
* Search crime data in your community (Tribune interactive database).
ELK HEADS AS SMOKING GUN. "Purchasing elk heads" is the remarkable heading atop a key passage in prosecutors' "Statement of the Offense" against Jesse Jackson Jr., who faces jail after pleading guilty to conspiring with his wife to fund a lavish lifestyle with campaign money.
WENDY'S: 'WE HAVE AN ALIBI.' That was just one rival's response to the hacking of Burger King's Twitter account, beginning with a fake tweet that read "We just got sold to McDonalds!"
* Bogus tweets deleted by day's end, followed by "Interesting day here at BURGER KING ..."
'NINE DAYS LEFT? WHY WOULD YOU GET OUT?' One of the candidates in the race to replace Jesse Jackson Jr. in Congress questions why a rival has suddenly dropped out and tossed her support to yet another candidate.
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WILL RAHM RUN? Two "well-connected sources" tell The Daily Beast Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been discussing a White House run if Hillary Clinton takes a pass.
* But he shook my hand on-camera last May and said, "I'm not doin' it."
* And before that, he issued this kinda weird denial in September 2011.
HOME-DRONE FIGHT. An Illinois lawmaker wants some privacy guidelines to cover potential use of drone aircraft by state and local crimefighters.
