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Happy Halloween!

Chicago Fire knows the way to our hearts.

A Michigan fishing guide and his wife divorced a few years ago. After holding on to the ring for a while, he decided he needed to get rid of it. He zip tied it to a Steelhead and released it into Lake Michigan. That was on May 4th. Amazingly, just the next month on June 21st a group caught the fish near Chicago, finding the bizarre ring...

I would not recommend ever doing this, but one guy decided that he was going to risk damaging his SUV, rather than pay to get his vehicle out of the Impound lot.

The Polar Vortex has created havoc all over the country with plunging temperatures not seen in twenty years. Dead car batteries, heaters giving out, and broken pipes abound including a flow of sewage from a ceiling. Can you imagine, trudging to get to work with temperatures hovering around -20 degrees, you get settled in at your desk and all of a sudden brown water starts pouring from the ceiling.

As far as athletes go, Michael Jordan is in the group of the most elite in the world, with that comes fame, fortune and huge mansions.

Talk about someone who loves their job, Navy Pier Manager Clint Shepard decided to ride the historical Ferris Wheel Ride for over 48 hours to keep the record where it belongs in Chicago!

Prince made a rare TV appearance today on 'The View' to promote three shows he has coming up in Chicago to support a charity called 'Rebuild The Dream.'

Hot Dogs, the  All American Food! Either you love them or you hate them. I love them in small doses, but I can't think about what is in them. Growing up in Milwaukee where brats are king, hot dogs are definitely in second place. But, today we celebrate and give thanks.

The crew at the world famous Wiener Circle in Chicago met their match when Triumph the Insult Comic Dog makes a visit with Jack McBrayer, you know him as Kenneth from the NBC show '30 Rock'. The pair make the trip into the hostile environment for Conan O'Brien who was in the windy city taping his show for TBS.

School lunch. A rite of passage for kids all over the globe.  Ahh...school lunch.  My stomach is rumbling just thinking about it!  How I miss the days of Italian Dunkers.  When I was growning up, complaining about the turkey cubes in gravy with mashed potatoes, or praising the rectangle shaped pizza was all part of the mid-day refueling for us all...