PHOTOS: Chicago Bear Lance Briggs in Frankfort

Fans sported their Bears apparel for Briggs' signing at Buffalo Wild Wings in Frankfort.

Chicago Bear Lance Briggs paid a visit to Frankfort Wednesday night. The NFL player stopped by the village to appear on the Miller Lite Top Draft Show at Buffalo Wild Wings in Frankfort. The live broadcast featured Briggs, as well as 670 The Score’s Laurence Holmes. Excited fans packed the restaurant to catch a glimpse of Briggs and to get their Bears gear autographed by the Chicago linebacker. Get news alerts and Facebook updates from these Lincoln-Way Patch sites:

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Bears to the Left, Packers to the Right; Two Local Bars Stuck in the Middle

Thanks to their customers, Buffalo Wild Wings in Frankfort and Tom Kelly's in New Lenox are caught in the Chicago-Green Bay rivalry.

For two area bars, this week's Bears-Packers game might well be the equivalent of being caught in the middle of epic feuds like the Hatfields vs. the McCoys, Aliens vs. Predators, or Brett Favre vs. Jenn Sterger (except without the inappropriate texting).  Managers at Buffalo Wild Wings in Frankfort and Tom Kelly's Chophouse & Pub in New Lenox say they have a large contingent of Green Bay backers who come in to watch the games.  "We didn’t realize we had so many Packer fans until this year," said Kelly Trumpey, manager and owner of Tom Kelly's. "I'm surprised that we have so many, being in Chicago." The Green Bay fans were out in full force at Tom Kelly's last Saturday, when the Packers defeated the Atlanta Falcons. As soon as the Pack had…

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Crime-N-Shame: The Region's Best Cop Blotter

Who knew Buffalo Wild Wings could be as rowdy as the Tinley post office? And be on the lookout for 20-year-old, flannel-clad road ragers in a Jag.

Today's Good Read on the Southland: Crime-N-Shame edition, features some of the region's more interesting crime reports the past few weeks. Police were called about a fight between a group of women at Buffalo Wild Wings around 11:15 p.m., according to reports. Several witnesses said Nicole D. Paoletti, 26, and two other women were sitting at a table and were making provoking quips at other women seated at the bar, according to police. Paoletti then punched one of the women at the bar, which caused beer to spill on the floor, leading to another bystander slipping and falling, police said. Paoletti, of the 3600 block of South Clinton Avenue in Berwyn, was charged with battery. Tinley Park Post Office supervisor Ernestine Stephens, 38, of the…