Around Town

Don't mess around when you see a motorcade in town. Jon Hilkevitch:

Such wasn't the case two days after the election when the president-elect's motorcade was traveling to FBI headquarters downtown for Obama's first intelligence briefing, according to a pool report to the media from a Los Angeles Times reporter.

"Some of the drivers here in Chicago do not seem to understand that a) the Chicago police car at the end of the president-elect's motorcade is serious about having traffic pull over when the officers flash their lights and hit their sirens, and b) it's not a great idea to jump ahead of traffic by trying to cut around the black SUV filled with five heavily armed Secret Service members," the reporter noted.

On Van Buren Street, a tan sedan attempted to drive around Obama's motorcade.

"The SUV cut the car off immediately, and the security team aimed their weapons at the car," the pool report said.

Don't honk your horn, don't aim a camera. And if you wonder why the security team will have their windows open even in frigid temperatures--it's so they can get a clear shot.