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$521,294,275
That’s how much the city of Chicago shelled out for expenses related to police misconduct from 2004-2014. About a fourth of that is tied up in attorney’s fees, both for the plaintiffs and the police, who have been historically unwilling to settle.
2038
The year the gender wage gap would close in Florida if it continues to narrow at the current rate, according to an analysis from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research reported by the Washington Post. Florida would be the first state to close the gap. The last? Wyoming in 2159.
12/24/1994
The last time Los Angeles hosted its own pro-football home game, the Atlantic’s CityLab reported. LA is the largest city without a professional football franchise by a significant margin, and no less than 15 teams have been rumored or out-and-out threatened to move there since then.
Seven
“Mad Men” wraps up its seven-season run this spring, with the last batch up episodes starting in April. The Hollywood Reporter has an exhaustive oral history of the show, which propelled AMC from a minor movie channel into a prestige drama juggernaut. It’s a great weekend long read.
Five
The number of flavors available for the powdered alcohol product “palcohol.” The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau approved the freeze-dried product on Thursday, which comes in vodka, rum, cosmopolitan, margarita and lemon drop flavors.
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