How to Get a Street Named After You: Rudy and Joyce Nimocks live on the Honorary Rudy and Joyce Nimocks Way on the 6100 block of South Greenwood Avenue. The South Side Weekly profiles the couple for its interview issue. Rudy explains starting the Thirteen Cats gang in Woodlawn and later being partnered with a Sunday school teacher as a Chicago detective. Sam Cholke is reading Rudy's stories about buying groceries for families after arresting their kids, and the loss of that style of police work from the 1960s on the South Side of Chicago. Rudy and Joyce Nimocks are still in the neighborhood fighting to get kids into college and in successful careers.
"To make it simple, we are all products of our environment, so if you grow up in an environment where people talk about who went to jail, who got out of jail, who’s going to jail, then you see the same thing repeated over and over again: a fragmented home, mother usually there, no man in the house, kids out of school, gangs, drugs, penitentiaries, getting killed young and all of that," Rudy Nimocks told the South Side Weekly.
Lasting Legacy of the Great Chicago Fire: Reporter Heather Cherone is reading the Tribune's report about Ancestry.com's decision to post 100 million wills dating back three centuries. A huge number of wills by Chicagoans include instructions about what to do in the case of a massive fire; the team behind the project said it's an indication of the massive impact the conflagration had on residents' psyches decades after the flames were doused. Included in the treasure trove are the wills of some of the most famous Chicagoans ever, including Marshall Field, Potter Palmer and George Pullman.
Have a Whale of a Time in Connecticut: Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy's thoughts on his state's tourism growth garnered national attention the only way they possibly could Wednesday — by being photobombed by a beluga whale named Juno. The swim-by incident happened during Malloy's 15-minute conference, held at the Mystic Aquarium in front of the whale enclosure, news editor Bettina Chang is reading in Mashable. Juno's expert photobomb includes elongated uncomfortable eye contact, a creepy grin and, of course, slow-motion lurking.
Beluga whale masterfully photobombs entire press conference http://t.co/6e0e3irTCI pic.twitter.com/PpwU6DuPTn
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