2 Co-Workers, 1 Pothole / No Tears For Kimbrel / Pat Tomasulo Is Funny

Pat Tomasulo is funny.

Check out the WGN Morning News star's new stand-up comedy special, "What A Time To Be Alive."

The guy cracks me up, and he's got a working moral compass and a pretty good heart.

KONKOL COLUMN: Laugh Or Your Money Back: WGN's Pat Tomasulo's Free Comedy Special

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• Jeff Arnold on Sports: Sox fans were giddy that news of out-of-place reliever Craig Kimbrel being traded to Los Angeles wasn't an April Fool's joke. (Patch)
• This might be the best traffic story of the year: Li Qiu and Jose Flores work together. On back-t0-back days, they hit the same pothole on the Tri-State Tollway driving to work, Chris Coffey reports. (NBC5)
• Watch the video of burglars smash windows with crowbars to rob Flee Club, a Taylor Street consignment shop. That's why the owners are shutting down the business, Steven Graves reports. (CBS2)
• American soldiers have been charged with smuggling guns to Chicago that were used in several murders and multitudes of shootings, federal authorities aid. Nine Chicago gang members also were part of the gun-smuggling operation rooted at the Fort Campbell Army base in Kentucky. (ABC7)
• "Bravo Will, but you shouldn’t have," N'Digo publisher Hermene Hartman writes of the Oscar slap heard 'round the world. (N'Digo)

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• Soul Message at Green Mill (8 p.m.)
• PUP with Cloud Nothings, Pinkshift at the Riv (6 p.m.)
• Corridor, Pool Holograph at Schuba's (7:30 p.m.)
• Amber Mark, Shaun Ross at Lincoln Hall (7 p.m.)

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About me: Mark Konkol, recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, wrote and produced the Peabody Award-winning series "Time: The Kalief Browder Story." He was a producer, writer and narrator for the "Chicagoland" docuseries on CNN and a consulting producer on the Showtime documentary "16 Shots."