Patch Flash: Cubs Owner Shares Vision of Future World Series

If that name sounds familiar it is because Beane was the subject of the recent movie Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt as Beane, that focused on his sophisticated efforts to develop baseball talent.  Rickets shared this story and his vision for bringing a World Series to Wrigley Field with more than 225 people Tuesday at the NorthShore Senior Center in Northfield.

When Occupy Chicago came to the Thompson Center, Gov. Pat Quinn said protesters need to organize for a cause. Could that cause be ComEd rate hikes? At a recent luncheon, he said “It’s important if you’re doing an ‘Occupy’ movement, maybe to get down to the state capitol, help with the program y’know?” Quinn said to laughter. “We’re trying to win for the 99 percent of consumers who aren’t very happy about Commonwealth Edison’s big increase.

. Investigators from the attorney general's office arrested Barry Caudle, 39, Tuesday morning after searching Marengo First Assembly of God, 22817 W. Grant Highway.

Police say that a man in a Spider-Man mask wielding a foot-long machete held up an Illinois gas station Sunday evening. Investigators in Moline, Ill., are searching for the man and his partner, who witnesses saw flee the Shell Express Lane location heading westbound in a light-colored pickup truck, possibly a Ford F-series.

“It’s theological or philosophical, but when it comes down to actual science, the idea is dead in the water," said Matt Lowry in regards to creationism, the idea that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe are the creation of a supernatural being.

Lowry is a physics and astronomy teacher at Lake Forest High School  and at the College of Lake County. He is also the founder of Darwin’s Bulldogs, a grassroots science advocacy group in northern Illinois.