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McCormick Place, the largest convention center in North America, is largely covered with glass, making it a lethal obstacle for birds

Avoid shopping or making important decisions from 2 to 6:30. p.m. Chicago time. After that, the moon moves from Cancer into Leo.

What the City of Chicago has actually done is floated a lot of ideas, but not implemented them and flailed all along the way, Rich Miller writes.

Participating restaurants for the two-week event pay no entry fee, and organizers provide marketing education and public relations support for participants.

This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter features work by “adrenaline junky” graffiti artist Zwon, plus how an Avondale artist is moving Picasso forward and more.

The 22-year-old Chicago-born American Lithuanian landed one of the most coveted seats on the IndyCar Series grid after spending the past two seasons with Dale Coyne Racing, and the adjustment has kept him busy since the checkered flag fell on the 2023 season four weeks ago at Laguna Seca.

Plus: The Bears’ Claypool era ends, 6 things to do this weekend and more.

In Chicago, the price of illegal guns soared during the pandemic, but gangs were able to pay for them with fraudulent PPP and other COVID-19 relief money, agents say.

Minhal Baig’s “We Grown Now” shows the joys and hardships of growing up in public housing through the eyes of two 10-year-old boys.