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March 28, 2014

Just in case

Despite Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s affirmation that she is “running for re-election for the job that I have” this year and does not plan to challenge Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the 2015 election, The Illinois Observer decided to see how Preckwinkle would stack up against Emanuel in the election anyway.

The Observer commissioned and LaGrange-based Strive Strategies conducted a poll of 724 likely voters in Chicago. Forty percent of respondents said they would vote for Preckwinkle in next year’s election. Thirty-two percent of respondents expressed their support of Emanuel, and 28 percent of those polled said they were undecided.

Well whadaya know…

In response to Buzz Feed’s listicle, “50 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Chicago,” which included factoids like President Barack Obama is from the city, the Chicago Sun-Times on Thursday published a list of 25 things the publication asserted most people “actually” don’t know about Chicago.

The list was curated by the Chicago Sun-Times’ Neil Steinberg, the Chicago History Museum, the Choose Chicago tourism bureau, bloggers and “other tour groups,” according to the Sun-Times. Together, the Chicago history buffs revealed: it’s forbidden by law to give a dog whiskey in the city; Chicago’s seal features a naked baby; and that the term “jazz” was coined in the city in 1914.

Bad bus stops

From Chicago Magazine: From dingy, to dangerous, to desolate – some of the Chicago Transit Authority’s 11,279 bus stops are pretty darn creepy. In it’s list of the CTA’s all-around worst bus stops, Chicago Magazine said the 9 Ashland route’s southbound stop at Cortland Avenue in Bucktown, the 95th/Dan Ryan Bus Terminal in Roseland and 78 Montrose route’s eastbound stop at 2656 Montrose Ave. in Lincoln Square were among the worst. Find out why at ChicagoMag.com.

You’re a doll

DNAinfo Chicago this week looked into the mystery surrounding a doll that is encased in concrete in the wall of a storage shed near the Chicago Park District’s Bill Jarvis Migratory Bird Sanctuary. Volunteers at the sanctuary, which is located at 3550 N. Lake Shore Drive, have called the doll “creepy.” Lakeview resident Charlotte Newfeld, steward of the sanctuary, said she first noticed the doll in “1998 or 1999.”

-Tom Butala