The Illinois National Guard Delta unit returned home to Woodstock, IL yesterday after a gruesome deployment in Afghanistan. The Trib has a must-read. Chicagoist is reporting on a billboard in Pilsen that was painted by a pr0-immigration youth group. Well, someone didn’t like it and defaced it. You know, what your mother taught you to do when you don’t like something… A study shows that the region’s beaches were closed over 3,000 times in 2008.‚  I don’t think I’ve been to the beach 3,000 times in my life. Breaking Tweets Chicago has a great picture of Chicago irony in action. And is everybody ready for camp? You know it’s Bears camp when columnists start trouble. So Urlacher is jealous of Cutler. But according to Urlacher, this is just media being media. Let’s just do a viral video - here’s a very funny video that has been forwarded to me by several of my NPR colleagues. It’s good stuff and worth a watch.