Chi Trib spotlights The Rascal's hometown

Today's edition of the Chicago Tribune has a feature piece on the revival of pretzels in Freeport, Ill., which calls itself Pretzel City USA (and which is less noted as the birthplace of The Rascal).

Actually, Freeport's greatest claim to fame is as the site of the second and historically most important of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. Which raises the question of whether the town is preparing anything special for next year's 150th anniversary of that debate.