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Parents split on the end of the mask mandate in Chicago Public Schools

CHICAGO — Most kids wore face coverings as they entered Park Manor Elementary School on Monday, even as Chicago Public Schools relaxed its mask rules for students and staff.

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Versa reversal: ‘Women-powered’ Chicago festival canceled

The Lincoln Park event, announced just two weeks ago, was to feature big names including Ellie Goulding, Chelsea Handler and Gloria Steinem.

Chicago Sun-Times

City Council’s Rules Committee chair to file for remap referendum

“We’re taking it to the voters and we’re gonna let the voters decide,” said Rules Committee Chair Michelle Harris. “Without 41 people making a decision to move forward, how do we avoid going to referendum? … We’re filing for a referendum because we need 41 votes.”

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Chicago police detectives begin training to investigate drug deaths as possible homicides

‘Locking up a drug dealer will not bring my daughter Sydney back,’ a retired cop told detectives Monday. ‘But I am confident that our efforts will save the lives of others.’

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Russia’s Eifman Ballet cancels Chicago performances

The troupe, scheduled for the Auditorium Theatre in May, says it is unable to dance in the U.S. “in light of COVID-19 restrictions for international travel and the current geopolitical climate.”

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Family asks for help finding father of four missing from Albany Park

Hector Manuel Franco Tello was last seen March 9 leaving home for work about 6:50 a.m. in the 4900 block of North Spaulding Avenue, according to a missing person alert from Chicago police.

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Afternoon Edition: March 14, 2022

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

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Lightfoot vows to enforce COVID vaccine mandate against police officers

Officers still refusing will be placed on what the city calls “non-disciplinary, no-pay status” and may face termination. “I don’t expect that to be a lengthy process,” Lightfoot said Monday, but added: “We’re not doing mass firings today.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Proposal to protect workers from getting fired for off-the-job marijuana use advances with Illinois lawmakers

CHICAGO — A proposal to prohibit firing workers for trace amounts of marijuana in their systems moved closer to passage when the Illinois House of Representatives approved the measure earlier this month — but employers remain very leery about it.

Chicago Tribune

City Council committee takes first step on ordinance intended to punish Trump over Capitol insurrection

The ordinance would prohibit any person convicted of treason, sedition, related offenses, or a hate crime, from doing business with the city. But co-sponsors disagree on exactly how that could end up affecting Trump.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Steelers will be fine with Mitchell Trubisky, just hopefully not for too long

'Pittsburgh Steeler Mitchell Trubisky' actually has a nice ring to it.

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3-year-old Illinois boy fatally shot his mom with a gun found in car

CHICAGO — A trip to the supermarket in Dolton turned fatal this weekend when a 3-year-old boy found a gun in the back seat of a vehicle, picked it up and accidentally shot his mother in the neck, killing her.

Chicago Tribune

Parents split on the end of the mask mandate in Chicago Public Schools

CHICAGO — Most kids were wearing face coverings as they entered Park Manor Elementary School on Monday, even as Chicago Public Schools relaxed its mask rules for students and staff.

Chicago Tribune

CPD’s plan for 1.5M ‘positive’ interactions with residents ‘deeply problematic,’ AG says

The Illinois attorney general’s office sent a scathing memo to city lawyers warning that Chicago Police Supt. David Brown’s goal for bolstering community engagement amounts to “a quota system” that is “rife with significant downsides.”

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Facing criticism over rising crime, Illinois governor proposes $20 million for witness protection program that’s never been funded

CHICAGO — Facing mounting criticism from Republicans over a rise in violent crime, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker has proposed spending $20 million on a long-neglected witness protection program for people whose lives are put in danger by helping law enforcement.

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Pervis Spann, ‘the BLUES man,’ legendary Chicago disc jockey, dead at 89 of Alzheimer’s disease; (NEW: Public viewing, services)

Hired by Chess Records co-founder Leonard Chess at WVON-AM, his career spanned over 60 years. He was one of the ‘Good Guys’ — a group of DJs that also included Herb Kent.

Evening Standard

Three-year-old boy accidentally shoots mother dead in supermarket car park in Chicago suburb

A three-year-old boy has shot his mother dead in a supermarket car park in the US.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot gets first-hand account of horrors of war in Ukraine

The harrowing details came in a video call from Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov, who said artillery strikes are “coming from everywhere.”

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Body pulled from Lake Michigan in South Chicago

The 64-year-old man was found unresponsive in the water Sunday afternoon in the 9100 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive, authorities said.

The Independent UK

Three-year-old boy accidentally shoots and kills his mother in Chicago grocery store parking lot

Toddler found father’s firearm in backseat of car

The Independent UK

Shooting outside Chicago pizza shop leaves 7 men wounded

Authorities say a shooting outside a pizza shop on Chicago’s South Side has left seven men wounded

Chicago Sun-Times

Contractor status keeps rideshare drivers’ pay below minimum wage, report says

The study by the Illinois Economic Policy Institute and researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said the average rideshare driver in Chicago could earn substantially more money if classified as an employee.

Chicago Tribune

As ‘Batman’ has changed over the years, so has Commissioner Gordon — in praise of a former Chicago cop

CHICAGO — For years James Gordon patrolled this cesspool we call a city.

Chicago Tribune

Review: The swagger (and the mess) of Tommy Egan on ‘Power Book IV: Force’

There’s a very witty performance at the center of “Power Book IV: Force,” the fourth and latest incarnation of the “Power” franchise on Starz starring Joseph Sikora as Tommy Egan, a bad boy extraordinaire pushing his way into Chicago’s illegal drug trade. Here’s a guy with attitude and swagger and…

Chicago Tribune

Lemonade is having a moment. Two Chicago breweries wage a boozy battle for the best lemonade beer.

CHICAGO — Lemonade never goes out of style. But in the alcohol world, it’s having a moment.

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