Photo Contest: Show Your Irish Pride

Do you have pictures of your kids or pets that are just bursting with Irish pride? Enter our contest to win a giftcard for a local restaurant and other prizes.

Enter Patch's Irish Pride Photo Contest

Do you have pictures of your kids or pets that are just bursting with Irish pride? Enter our contest to win a giftcard for a local restaurant and other prizes.

The South Side Irish Parade is just around the corner and we want to see your Irish pride on full display.  Patch is running a kids and pets Irish pride photo contest and entering couldn't be easier. So break out those photos and get posting. We will narrow down the entries to five and put it to a reader vote. The winner receives a $20 gift certificate to Marie's Cafe in Mt. Greenwood and a Patch t-shirt and water bottle.  Just leave your name in the captions of the photos. (You need to be a registered Patch user, log into the site, click on this story, then select "Upload Photos.") Submissions will be accepted until March 5.  Please click here for 2013 giveaway rules.

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If You Ate McDonald's Every Day, Could You Run a Marathon?

In this week's "Good Read on the Southland," we've got 5 stories that will make you smarter.

OK, maybe these stories won't make you smarter, but they will definitely give you something to talk about this week.  I'm pretty sure Big Macs and Quarter Pounders won't give you the kind of gas that'll keep your legs pumping for 26 miles, but Oak Forest native Joseph D'Amico insists he can eat nothing but McDonald's and make it through the L.A. Marathon. D'Amico grew up in Oak Forest, running track and cross country for Oak Forest High School. Now known as "McRunner," he's vowed to raise $5,000 for Ronald McDonald House Charities while feasting on nothing but McDonald's. Orland School District 135 is suing Paul Gutierrez of Blue Island for sending his daughter to Orland Junior High. The district seeks $24,208.03 in damages from Gutierrez …

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