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The City Council’s Finance Committee approved a $950,000 settlement to a veteran bricklayer who claimed that he was a target of racist and retaliatory attacks by a superintendent in the Water Management Department.

“This is the first step in achieving most of the goals I’ve set for myself,” said Sharon Celestine, 20, who came to Chicago from Nigeria.

Ja’Mal Green’s version of a public bank would start with $500 million in assets — half from the city’s “cash on hand,” the rest possibly from federal stimulus funds.

The boy was “floating on his back, just looking up at the sky,” before he went underwater, a witness said. He went into cardiac arrest and was rushed to Lurie Children’s Hospital in “very critical condition,” officials said.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is set to release video this week from the July 22 shooting in Pilsen, just days after Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced the charges against the officers.

The artists were taking part in the international “Meeting of Styles” festival, which returned to Chicago this weekend for its fourth year. Some of the artists came from Mexico and Germany to paint viaduct walls near Commercial and South Chicago avenues.

Although overshadowed by the popular Little Village Mexican Independence Day Parade, held two weeks ago, the one in South Chicago claims to be Chicago’s oldest. The parade dates back to the late 1930s in one of the city’s first Mexican immigrant communities, which settled on the Southeast Side.

Nine Inch Nails leads the lineup on the festival’s final day, which also includes sets by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Coolio, Jawbox, Zola Jesus and The Linda Lindas.

The poll was commissioned by the Nuestro PAC, a national political action committee that’s urging U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia to run against Mayor Lori Lightfoot and other contenders.