Good Morning Lizards…

(Mr Rogers theme music playing)

Here is Afrocity reporting from Ground B-zero in Chicago. Just another cheery ass day in the Windy City:

1. Foreclosures Skyrocket 72 Percent In Cook County, Chicago
Circuit Court Clerk Brown: Banks Aren’t Helping Homeowners Restructure Loans. New measures by the federal government to help struggling homeowners start soon, but not fast enough for a growing number of families in the Chicago area. In Cook County alone, there are 277 foreclosure filings a day, an increase of 72 percent in recent weeks.

2. Authorities today will try to identify the man whose dismembered body was found in four garbage bags in a Chicago alley Wednesday morning.

3. 10th-grader is 26th Chicago Public Schools student slain this school year
Number matches total for all of last school year.

4.Chicago Public Schools leaders said Wednesday that a $475 million budget shortfall for next year means property taxes probably will rise to make up some of the difference.

5. 17 degrees today

won’t you be my neighbor?