Lolla. Just a reminder to expect large crowds and loud noises downtown along Michigan Avenue this weekend as a side effect of Lollapalooza, taking place Friday to Sunday at Grant Park. This year’s festival features performances from acts including The Cure, Mumford & Sons and Vampire Weekend.
Raju on Twitter. Becker’s Hospital Review named Cook County Health and Hospitals System CEO Dr. Ram Raju one of its 20 health care leaders to follow on Twitter. Follow Dr. Raju at @ramraju5 to keep up with what’s happening at the county hospital system.
Divvy wedding. While making their routine stops at the city’s new Divvy bike stations on Friday to assure there were plenty of wheels available, Divvy’s “rebalancers” found a happy bride and groom – along with what appears to be their entire wedding party – posing for this photo. The Divvy team was so charmed to be included in the couple’s big day, that they used social media to track down the newlyweds and send them some congratulatory wedding gifts.
Oops! The Chicago Tribune made a flub on Tuesday when for 16 minutes it displayed a large image of a cat, accompanied by the text “test, test, test…” in the centerpiece of its homepage at chicagotribune.com. But there’s no need to get catty, in a follow-up interview with Gizmodo later that day, the Tribune’s Social Media and SEO Manager Amy Guth was a good sport, describing the mishap as a mistake in format testing for the website.
-Tom Butala