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Bridgeport bank failure proves costly for FDIC, a CPD officer faces dismissal and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ranking the Bears’ biggest roster needs entering 2023 NFL draft

There are still some glaring holes on the Bears' roster that should be addressed in the NFL draft next week.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Late in life, Chicago songwriter Flo Estes delivers a stunning folk debut

Estes plumbed the depths of folk songwriting as a labor organizer. But it was a hobbyist guitar class where she landed an album offer.

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Chicago tavern history: Did you know the vote to make us a city happened in a bar?

To get the lowdown on bars, beer and Chicago, WBEZ’s Curious City podcast crew headed to Uptown’s iconic Carol’s Pub with a couple of experts.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago love story: Couple’s matching tattoos are about their relationship — and the crash they experienced on their first date

Isabella Snow and Noah Nichols, who live in Old Irving Park, got into a car wreck right about when they started falling for each other. Their tattoos are about all of that.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘The wall needed painting,’ Chicago graffiti artist Joos says is the philosophy behind his ‘beast on the streets’ spray-painting

He’s drawn to viaducts, L trains, abandoned buildings and other sometimes-dangerous settings.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago businesses try to make sustainable shopping easier

Local entrepreneurs help consumers see through deceptive marketing practices and offer fair trade-certified places to shop for food, clothes and other goods.

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Shots fired during robbery in River North parking garage; no injuries reported

Two suspects were arrested, but two robbers got away after the early Friday morning attack in the 500 block of North State Street, according to police.

Chicago Sun-Times

James Outman’s 9th-inning grand slam propels Dodgers past Cubs

CHICAGO — James Outman is good at making first impressions.

The Orange County Register

Chicago told to reinstate employees fired over COVID-19 vaccination requirement

CHICAGO — Chicago must reinstate city employees who were fired for refusing to comply with Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and rescind the requirement, a state administrative law judge has ruled.

Chicago Tribune

New swing, same gratitude: Jason Heyward grateful to be playing at Wrigley Field

CHICAGO — The most meaningful part of Jason Heyward's return to Wrigley Field this week?

Los Angeles Times

White Sox closer Liam Hendriks is cancer-free

The White Sox closer’s battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma came to an end Thursday with a proclamation from Hendriks himself that he is cancer-free. “It’s official,” Hendriks said in an Instagram post Thursday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cubs starter Jameson Taillon heads to the injured list while Kyle Hendricks nears a minor league rehab stint

CHICAGO — The first test of the Chicago Cubs starting pitching depth has arrived.

Chicago Tribune

White Sox closer Liam Hendriks says he is cancer-free after undergoing treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma

CHICAGO — Chicago White Sox closer Liam Hendriks announced he is cancer-free in an Instagram post Thursday.

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How lawmakers can create fair voting maps for Chicago’s elected school board

Lawmakers have until July 1 to draw maps for school board elections in 2024. The process must be transparent, and the maps should reflect the city’s racial makeup, two parent activists write.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Cartel wives’ of Chicago’s twin cocaine kingpins plead guilty to stashing drug cash

Vivianna Lopez and Valerie Gaytan, wives of Pedro and Margarito Flores, admitted to involvement in a conspiracy to launder millions from their husbands’ drug trafficking business after the men were taken into federal custody.

Chicago Sun-Times

Acting CPD leader resigns amid search for top cop, Mayor-elect Johnson’s new chief of staff and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Tribune

Interim Chicago police Superintendent Eric Carter to retire next month as Mayor Lightfoot leaves office

CHICAGO — Eric Carter, the interim superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, will retire on May 15 after three decades with the department, the CPD announced Thursday.

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14-year-old boy shot in South Chicago

He was shot while inside a car in the 2300 block of East 80th Street, police said.

Chicago Sun-Times

James Eisenberg, who ran Vienna Beef, loved his hot dogs, dead at 92

He knew how to do every job there before he and Jim Bodman bought the Chicago company in 1982. To celebrate, they had steaks — not hot dogs — at Gene & Georgetti.

Chicago Sun-Times

Gunman fires at woman as she leaves bus on Southeast Side, missing her but hitting bus

No injuries were reported in the shooting, which occurred around 9:40 p.m. Wednesday in the 700 block of East 131st Street in the Hegewisch neighborhood, according to Chicago police.

The Independent UK

What you’ve been missing in the Midwest, from outdoorsy adventures in Minnesota to Cincinnati charm

With glacial lakes and a killer brewery scene, the US’s heartland has much to offer, Nicola Brady reveals

Chicago Tribune

Rick Kogan: 16-inch softball players win the fight to continue playing games at Chicago's Grant Park fields

CHICAGO — Grant Park was born with the rather dull name of Lake Park and is informally called Chicago’s “front yard.” But by any name, there’s not a finer urban park around and it has been the site of many joys, triumphs and troubles.

Chicago Tribune

In 1913, a culture war erupted over an exhibition of modern works at the Art Institute of Chicago

CHICAGO — In 1913, the Art Institute of Chicago was the scene of what is now known as a culture war, a spitting match between defenders of tradition and partisans of innovation. Each side was convinced that civilization’s fate had been sealed, for better or worse, when the museum hosted…

Chicago Tribune

As cannabis customers celebrate 420 in Chicago, consumption becomes more common at sponsored events

CHICAGO — One crucial new element will be added Thursday in Chicago to public celebrations of 420, marijuana’s unofficial holiday: smoke.

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