The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

CHICAGO — In a blue dress and wig, drag queen Muffy Fishbasket — Miss Muffy when performing for kids — opened the children’s book “My Lucky Day,” as a child yelled, “I read it!”

Officers found the man, in his 30s, on the ground in the 100 block of North LaCrosse Avenue, Chicago police said.

The Chicago Teachers Union says the teachers, including a hunger striker, are being retaliated against for embarrassing Mayor Lightfoot. The Chicago Board of Education is expected to vote Wednesday.

The former governor donated to Lori Lightfoot’s campaign, spoke at a rally and put a Lightfoot sign in front of his Galewood home. But then she reneged on her campaign promise to fight for, and abide by, a two-term limit for Chicago mayors.

CHICAGO — Chicago twins Pedro and Margarito Flores were in the middle of their cooperation against Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in 2010 when authorities intercepted a series of jail calls showing the brothers and their wives had growing concerns over the lack of an immunity deal from…

CHICAGO — It’s tough to know what to make of Bryse Wilson at the moment.

CHICAGO — A gunman fired at a group of teens gathered in an Evanston backyard and struck a 13-year-old girl Monday evening, police said.

Chicago police’s chief of constitutional policing and reform spoke Tuesday at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C.

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