stealing checks from Illinois mailboxes

Maybe it's just me, but I love finding my mailbox empty, or nearly empty, because that's a day with no bills. That scenario doesn't happen very often, because if it did I might think something was going on.

As a kid, I thought that money laundering like you'd see in movies and TV shows was a literal thing. Bad guys, for whatever reasons, would take money and "launder" it--and for reasons that a kid couldn't understand, it really seemed to anger members of law enforcement.