04:23 am - I Really Have No Idea What Is Going On (but golly, I had sorta hoped to be sleeping now)
Lots and lots and lots and lots of sirens over the past hour, all heading westward. Sounds more like police cars than fire trucks, but I haven't jumped up to look. Seems extra-loud (or maybe that's just what's left of my headache.
Huh. Most recent one was definitely a fire truck. I heard it grunt.
Maybe I should keep my eyes peeled for a police scanner at a yard sale or something, to satisfy my curiousity about events that require a lot of emergency equipment and personnel but usually don't show up on the television news or anywhere I can find them on the local newspaper's web site.
Still more, while typing this; finally hearing some coming in from other directions (which means they're farther away and thus mercifully less painful to hear).
(Argh. Okay, geting up to look out a window. Can't see any smoke, but I do see a stationary flashing red light less than half a mile west on Lombard. And equipment is still arriving, more fire than police now. Something requiring a huge response but no visible smoke plume rising above the surrounding buildings. I do wonder.)