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You may recognize Chris Hayes from MSNBC, where he hosts Up with Chris Hayes on weekend mornings, frequently appears on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donell, and occassionally guest-hosts The Rachel Maddow Show.

On Thursday's Afternoon Shift, The Break Room  features singer Mike Viola with the song "Soundtrack to My Summer".

The defense in former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky’s sex abuse trial rested its case Wednesday morning without calling its client to testify on his own behalf—though, the jury had heard from Sandusky, indirectly.

In the mid-1990s, musician Chris McDuffie (aka, Whitejacket) found himself done with his first tour of academic duty, and biding his time slinging popcorn and soda at a movie theater in Denver, Colorado.  Little did he know, this was freshman orientation for his post-graduate studies a

Miguel Fuentes knew he wanted to be a Guardian Angel when he was a kid and joined at age sixteen, six years before it would have been possible for him to become a cop. But it wasn't until he accidentally bumped into the founder of the Guardian Angels, Curtis Silwa, on a Blue Line train bound for O’Hare, however, that he got the chance to ask for a brochure and sign up.

  

Curious City attempts to answer the question:  "What happens to all the, um, "animal waste" from the Lincoln Park Zoo?"