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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 — 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…