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Afternoon Edition: April 20, 2022

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 20, 2022

Joyce Kenner, CPS’ most prominent principal, to retire after 3 decades at Whitney Young H.S.

Kenner, 65, has become synonymous with Whitney Young Magnet High School over her 32 years at the highly prestigious selective enrollment school.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 20, 2022

Gas card giveaway plan narrowly approved by committee

The 15-to-12 Budget Committee vote for Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s “Chicago Moves” program sets the stage for a full City Council showdown next week. The odds favor Lightfoot, but the outcome is by no means assured.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 20, 2022

Giannoulias raises more cash than all other Democrats and Republicans in secretary of state race combined

Monday marked an Illinois State Board of Elections deadline to file a required quarterly report of contributions and expenditures, but a number of primary candidates had not yet filed their reports late Monday.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 19, 2022

New HIRE360 small-business development center receives $3 million investment

The state and federal funds for the $7 million site on the Near South Side will help women and people of color to scale up their businesses.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 19, 2022

Lightfoot tweaks gas card giveaway yet again to smooth road to City Council passage

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plans to reserve 75% of gas cards for residents of South and West Side neighborhoods defined as “high-mobility hardship.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 18, 2022

UIC grad workers go on strike

The 1,500 members of the Chicago campus’ Graduate Employee Organization walked out over stalled contract bargaining.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 18, 2022

Former Oakbrook Terrace Mayor Tony Ragucci charged with taking thousands in secret payments

Ragucci has previously insisted to the Sun-Times that Oakbrook Terrace’s contract with SafeSpeed LLC “was all done legit. … We did everything legit and clean here.” He could not be reached for comment Monday.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 18, 2022

‘Shining Girls’ team needed Chicago’s look and ‘amazing’ talent to tell the story

Elisabeth Moss, star and producer of the upcoming Apple TV+ series, calls its serial-killer plot ‘an analogy for trauma.’

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 18, 2022

Congregation celebrates Easter 2 days after devastating fire hit Englewood church: ‘We will continue on’

“It was just overwhelming to just see the outpouring of love and to see the positivity,” Gerald Dew, pastor of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, said of Sunday’s service at its makeshift home at a nearby funeral home.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 17, 2022