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March 5, 2008

Uno honored in Chicago

Uno, the beagle who won Westminster, was honored in Chicago today by Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, who proclaimed March 5 as “Uno the Beagle Day” across Illinois.

"It's a special honor to have an Illinois born and bred dog to have this honor," Quinn said at a news conference Wednesday in Chicago. "Uno is an ambassador for our state and our country."

Uno, though he calls South Carolina home now, won Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in February, becoming the first beagle to do win the honor in the show's 132-year history. His co-owner and breeder, Kathy Weichert, lives in Belleville, Ill., where Uno was born.

To read the Chicago Tribune story, click here.

Photo by Tom Van Dyke/Chicago Tribune

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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