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Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.
• That Quality Record Plant in Kansas recently purchased 13 new presses that were sitting in a Chicago warehouse? —Leor Galil
• That the Justice Department has found evidence of racial bias in the Ferguson police department, including an e-mail making a racist joke about President Obama? —Mick Dumke
• That Rahm is trying really hard to be more likable? (I found the dead fish incident kind of endearing myself.) And that, meanwhile, the New York Times is so astounded that Rahm didn’t win the election outright that it’s started polling Chicagoans about the reasons they don’t like him? —Aimee Levitt