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What We're Reading: An Ugly Scene at Oak St. Beach and Removing Tats

By  Alisa Hauser Jen Sabella Linze Rice and Andrew Herrmann | July 30, 2015 3:38pm | Updated on July 30, 2015 3:46pm

CHICAGO — Besides looking forward to the weekend, here's what else we're looking at:

Bucktown Tattoo Removal Startup Turns a Profit: Over two years ago DNAinfo Chicago wrote about Vamoose, a tattoo removal company headed up by an anesthesiologist at 1864 N. Damen Ave. Today, Crain's reports that co-owners Drs. Howard Bennett and Marc Falleroni are opening a third location and the venture is "cash flow positive." Bennett is even expecting a spike from a new Chicago Police Department rule forbidding officers to show tattoos while in uniform, if the ban survives a court challenge.

Oak Street Beach Confrontation: A woman shared a video on Facebook this week she made while visiting Oak Street Beach with her two children and a friend. The video shows how the mother was confronted by an angry woman who said she'd been splashed by the mother's kids. Reporter Linze Rice is reading about the incident in The Frisky, which shows a picture of the splashed woman sitting in the water where the beach meets the shore. After the woman became irate, the woman filming alleges her children were called "the n-word" by the woman several times before the mother started filming — and the woman can be heard in the video using the word while saying it is within her First Amendment right. The angry woman also accuses the mother of "not graduating" or understanding the U.S. Constitution. On Facebook, the mother wrote, "Such a shame the kids had to experience that while having a good time. It took every bone in my body not to lay hands on her but she wasn’t worth it. Pure ignorance.” You can check the video out at The Frisky — but be warned, racially-fueled rant involved.

Looks Like All the Juggalos Had Fun!:  Last Thursday, reporter Alisa Hauser almost abandoned her post to join pro wrestler and Wicker Park resident Colt Cabana on a roadtrip to Thornville, Ohio for the Insane Clown Posse's 16th annual Gathering of Juggalos. Alas, life (and work) intervened, so instead she is just looking of images of the weekend of "explosive rap and rock performances, wrestling and general mayhem" as Rolling Stone describes the event in a slideshow-based story.

NoOlympics: The collapse of Boston's efforts to host the 2024 summer Olympics had some Chicago fingerprints on it. Senior editor Andrew Herrmann, who covered Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics while at the Sun-Times, is reading a Washington Post story about the future of host cities. The story includes the founder of No Games Chicago, Tom Tresser, who said he advised Boston opponents on how to fight the games. "When the mayor says 'world-class city,' hold your wallet and run the other way," he says.

As for the tourism Chicago missed by not having the games, Tresser says, "If we want to increase our inbound tourism, for like a fraction of what we were going to spend on the Olympics, we could mail a picture postcard to everybody on the planet with a coupon with two free drinks. 'Come to Chicago and have a drink on me."

Tom Tresser from the No Games Chicago campaign protests outside the Olympic Museum while the Chicago 2016 Olympic team presented their bid to the IOC there on June 17, 2009 in Lausanne, Switzerland. [Getty Images]

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