Rahm Emanuel’s pick to lead CPS is already causing an uproar from the Chicago Teachers Union. (Tribune/CNC)

Senator Mark Kirk says utilizing the state’s natural gas resources could cut gas prices. (Fox Chicago News)

The Sun-Times, the “little paper that could,” won a Pulitzer Prize yesterday for its reporting on violence in the city’s neighborhoods. (Sun-Times)

A party celebrating Adolf Hitler’s birthday took a turn for the worse when someone ordered a grilled cheese and let off a smoke bomb. (Tribune)

The FAA is making sure air traffic controllers don’t sleep on the job, but one Ohio controller inadvertently broadcast his viewing of a Samuel L. Jackson film on the airwaves. (AP

From Libya, the harrowing tale of migrants escaping the war-torn country, and the horrible realities of life in a war zone for amateur soldiers and overwhelmed doctors. (NY Times)