Saturday, February 7, 2015

Illinois city mocked by Letterman in '99 plots cold revenge

In this Feb. 3, 2015 photo, from left, Beth Peeler, 16, teacher Bill Curtin and Magdalena Garcia, 17, from Kankakee High School pose at a gazebo in Kankakee, Ill., before its planned demolition. In 1999, after Places Rated Almanac called Kankakee the worst metropolitan area to live in the U.S. and Canada, talk-show host David Letterman poked fun with a Top 10 list and sent the town two gazebos to spruce things up. Now students are dismantling the gazebos and making a commemorative rocking chair out of the wood for Letterman’s retirement. (AP Photo/Chicago Tribune, Zbigniew Bzdak) MANDATORY CREDIT, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES OUT, DAILY HERALD OUT, NORTHWEST HERALD OUT, DAILY CHRONICLE OUT, THE HERALD-NEWS OUT, THE TIMES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA OUT, NEW YORK TIMES OUT, TV OUT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) — High school students in a city that David Letterman lampooned as an awful place to live are plotting some tongue-in-cheek revenge, more than 15 years later.








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