Good morning, Chicago.
Illinois nurtured the nation’s best president in Abraham Lincoln. It’s the birthplace of Ronald Reagan and the state the place Barack Obama developed his political chops.
However Illinois is much better identified for a extra infamous political legacy: fixed and protracted corruption. 4 of its final 11 governors went to jail. Chicago, its largest metropolis, is residence to sweeping federal sting operations that put busloads of judges, aldermen, state lawmakers and different officers behind bars.
What makes Illinois so corrupt? Within the coming weeks and months, the Tribune will discover and try to clarify why corruption continues to poison nearly each stage of presidency in our state, draining off tax {dollars} and robbing public service of its that means in a collection referred to as “Tradition of Corruption.”
Learn half one from the Tribune’s Rick Pearson and Ray Lengthy.
As a part of the collection, the Tribune’s Kori Rumore, Ray Lengthy and John Chase compiled an inventory of roughly 200 convicted, indicted or typically infamous public officers from Illinois’ lengthy and notorious political historical past. Meet the small-town official behind the biggest municipal fraud within the nation’s historical past, the Chicago mayor with ties to gangster Al Capone and plenty of extra.
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Some CPS mother and father take transportation into their very own arms, as busing woes proceed for 2024-2025 college 12 months
Regardless of a brand new plan from Chicago Public Faculties promising to spice up transportation companies for qualifying college students, college students at selective enrollment and magnet colleges is not going to be assured busing once more this 12 months, leaving mother and father looking for transportation options to get their youngsters to and from selective enrollment and magnet colleges which draw college students from each space of the town.
CPS college students, mother and father absorb final weekend of summer time trip
Earlier than the brand new 12 months started at Chicago Public Faculties, college students and their households made essentially the most of their remaining weekend of summer time trip at varied neighborhood gatherings and back-to-school bashes, lots of which provided free college provides and backpacks.
Members of Midwest farming neighborhood join with shrimper, researchers in Gulf lifeless zone go to
Six members of Midwestern farming communities huddled round Louisiana fisherman Lance Nacio earlier this month as he confirmed household images and spoke concerning the shrimping enterprise he inherited from his father and grandfather. Later that night, the group talked concerning the Gulf of Mexico lifeless zone — the first factor that connects them — over a shrimp boil.
The lifeless zone is a dull expanse brought on by extra vitamins, akin to nitrogen and phosphorus in farm fertilizers, that movement from Midwestern states by way of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin.
A sit-down with Chicago Bears QB Caleb Williams
The dialog begins with a query. When, pray inform, will Caleb Williams formally arrive as an NFL star?
We’d like specifics right here. A date and a time. It’s the query Chicago wants answered, the storyline a lot of the NFL world is keen to zoom in on.
So, Caleb, out with it already.
Century mark: Chicago White Sox attain 100 losses for the sixth time in franchise historical past after 9-4 loss to the Detroit Tigers
The Sox grew to become simply the second staff within the fashionable period of Main League Baseball historical past to lose 100-plus instances over the primary 131 video games of a season after falling 9-4 on Sunday in entrance of 16,928 at Assured Fee Area. The Sox joined the ranks of the 1916 Philadelphia A’s — who had been 29-101-1 after recreation 131.
Babe Ruth’s ‘referred to as shot’ jersey sells at public sale for over $24 million
The jersey Babe Ruth wore when he referred to as his shot through the 1932 World Collection, hitting a house run to middle area, offered at public sale early Sunday for over $24 million.
I do know what you stole final summer time: Beg that nationwide park for forgiveness and ship it again. Higher but, write a letter.
Just a few years in the past, on Washington Island, in Door County, Wisconsin, the police division obtained a cardboard field. Inside was a observe on blue paper that learn: “Please return to Schoolhouse Seashore.” The field contained three easy grayish-white rocks, precisely the sort vacationers routinely take from Schoolhouse Seashore, touted by locals right here as one in every of finest seashores on the earth composed fully of stones. In case you are caught taking even a type of rocks, you might obtain a $250 high-quality. Presumably, whoever mailed these rocks — there was no return handle or signature on the letter — confronted $750 in fines.
And but the easy reality that somebody took time to return three rocks that look identical to each different rock on Schoolhouse Seashore advised a extra existential concern was nagging. Their conscience spoke to them.
Restaurant information: Stussy’s Diner in Bridgeport, amongst notable openings and closings round Chicago
Stussy’s Diner has remodeled a former 24-hour nook restaurant into a brand new fairly pink vacation spot in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood.
“It’s the fusion between retro and fashionable diner,” mentioned artistic director Dahlia Beckett.
Assessment: ‘Divination’ was a crowning second for Chicago Black Dance Legacy Undertaking
Surrounded by dancers, musicians and neighborhood leaders on the Jay Pritzker Pavilion stage, Chicago Black Dance Legacy Undertaking co-director Mashaune Hardy gave the ultimate sendoff for “Divination: The Dancing Souls of Black People.” This 12 months’s showcase in Millennium Park served because the celebratory finish of a two-year course of for 10 dance corporations collaborating within the mission, writes Lauren Warnecke.
Assessment: Pink with Sheryl Crow at Soldier Area
Feeding off electrified emotion and sugar-rush adrenaline, Pink operated in a gear inaccessible to most mortals, writes critic Bob Gendron.
