When you rent a storage unit, you do so with the assumption that the company in charge won’t let a family of raccoons move in and destroy or urinate on all of your belongings. The La Gambina family of Illinois thought so, at least, but they were quite wrong.
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Apartment Listing Service Sells Database Of Scammy And Outdated Rentals
The Illinois attorney general’s office has filed suit against a Chicago-based rental property listing service for allegedly “charging consumers a membership fee for access to a property database populated largely with fraudulent or outdated rental listings.”

Thanks, Bank of America: "I Deposited A Check That Dosen't Exist, And I Have A Receipt."
It seems that everything isn’t going so swimmingly during the transition from LaSalle Bank to Bank of America. One reader says that a check he deposited and has a receipt for has mysteriously disappeared…

Salmonella From Illegal Cheese Strikes Chicagoland
Kane County health officials said Thursday that cheese may be causing a salmonella outbreak that has made at least 20 people sick.

Eat a Cockroach, Ride a Rollercoaster.
Six Flag’s Great America. Ah, those halcyon days of youth, strapped to one of the American Eagle’s dual trains with only a lapbar and someone else’s mom to keep your skinny ass from bouncing the hell out of the car. Oh, the memories.