* Crane H.S. students who live in the ABLA Homes are getting police escorts.
* The Tribune Company lost $78 million in 4Q 2007.
* Filmmaker Aram Rappaport is working with the city in order to shoot his new movie, Helix, in Chicago in one take.
* Kurt Elling went to divinity school at the U. of C.?
* Jim Musser, Trib grammar guru and designer of “Road to the White House,” passed away at 60. More at BoardGameGeek.
* Rule 240: worth invoking, although it doesn’t exist anymore.
* Suburbs-to-slums-watch continues.