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After a long Fourth of July weekend that featured a visit from the president, the first ever NASCAR street race, historic storms and scores of mostly illegal fireworks displays, the leaders of Chicago’s emergency response agencies gathered to praise the efforts of first responders.
“Every instance required advanced coordination and collaboration and I could not be more proud of the men and women of the Chicago Police Department,” interim police Superintendent Fred Waller said yesterday.
But still, the holiday weekend maintained its reputation for violence as eight people were killed and another 57 were wounded in nonfatal shootings across the city between Friday evening and Tuesday night, according to police statistics.
Read the full story from the Tribune’s Sam Charles.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is the last Chicago mayor who will get to hand-pick the people who will govern the largest school system in Illinois with an enrollment of more than 300,000 students.
The Merchandise Mart’s furniture showrooms have made it a center of the design world for generations.
But there’s a new challenger to the nearly 100-year-old Mart. A growing number of showrooms have set up shop in Fulton Market, further energizing the former meatpacking district where developers recently built millions of square feet of office space, along with thousands of residences.
Illinois’ largest public employee union reaches tentative contract agreement with state
The tentative agreement reached Saturday coincided with the start of the state’s 2024 fiscal year and a $50.4 billion budget passed by the Democratic-controlled state legislature and signed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
Goonie gang members convicted of racketeering
Reputed “Goonie Boss” gang faction leader Romeo “O-Dog” Blackman and two alleged henchmen, Terrance “T” Smith and Jolicious “Jo Jo” Turman, were convicted after five weeks of testimony in the sweeping trial. Blackman and Smith face mandatory life sentences, while Turman faces a minimum of 20 years.
In all, the indictment alleged the Goonies were responsible for 10 slayings and six attempted murders in an 18-month span from 2014 to 2016.
Illinois State Museum returns sacred wooden artifacts to Kenya
The Illinois State Museum said the statues were removed from Mijikenda villages and sacred sites in the 1980s, acquired by art collectors and later transferred to the museum as part of its African collection.
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The statues are believed to carry the spirits of deceased male Mijikenda elders.
Chicago Bulls second-round draft pick Julian Phillips set a simple goal for his debut at the NBA Summer League this week in Las Vegas.
“Winning,” Phillips said. “Win every game. Win as many games as we can.”
Column: With breakups in life and in sports, ‘it’s not what you do but how you do it’
James Wade left the Chicago Sky this weekend for another opportunity. The announcement came on the heels of the Sky ending a six-game skid. A team in the middle of a rebuild with Wade at the helm was suddenly without its captain.
With Wade’s departure, the team isn’t searching to fill just one role — it has to fill two, writes Shakeia Taylor. The 2022 WNBA Executive of the Year was the head coach and general manager, the last such dual role remaining in either the NBA or WNBA. Emre Vatansever, an assistant with the Sky since 2017, will serve as head coach and GM for the remainder of the season.
Can I still listen to Kanye? Should I hate Bill Murray now? Ask Claire Dederer.
Claire Dederer does not carry a portable confessional, but she might want to consider the investment. Christopher Borrelli sat beside recently in the lobby of a School of the Art Institute of Chicago building on Michigan Avenue. He wondered: Are people asking you to judge them? She smiled a big smile that could only be interpreted one way: You have no idea how many people ask. Dederer, an author and essayist from Seattle, was in town to talk about “Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma,” her latest book, and without question the finest one-volume wrangling with a very contemporary dilemma:
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Critic feedback: Your best hot dog questions answered
Few foods are as important to this city as hot dogs. That’s part of why it’s no surprise that when food critic Nick Kindelsperger set out to answer who the best hot dogs in Chicago, he got a lot of feedback from readers.
A number of readers questioned how he could forget about their favorite hometown wiener, or had other queries. Let’s dig in.