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The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

Afternoon Edition: March 14, 2022

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

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

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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.

USA Today Sports Media Group

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

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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.”

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

Chicago Tribune

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

Evening Standard

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.”

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

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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…

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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.

Chicago Tribune

Ukrainian-born Walter Polovchak — the Cold War’s ‘littlest defector’ — lives happily in a Chicago suburb but is devastated by events in his homeland

A black-and-white photograph from August 1980 shows 12-year-old Walter Polovchak, small and skinny with hair falling onto his forehead, flanked by adults as he walked into a courthouse for a custody hearing.

Chicago Tribune

7 men shot in South Chicago neighborhood, authorities say

CHICAGO — Seven men were shot and injured Sunday afternoon in the city’s South Chicago neighborhood, authorities said.

The Independent UK

Jussie Smollett placed in psychiatric ward of prison following outburst at his sentencing, family claims

Family has started #FreeJussie campaign

Chicago Sun-Times

7 seriously hurt in South Chicago mass shooting

Seven people were transported to area hospitals in serious to critical condition.

Chicago Sun-Times

Obama, in Chicago last Thursday, tests positive for COVID

“I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise,” Obama said.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Once’ duo reunites for captivating Swell Season concert

At Cadillac Palace Theatre, Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova and band revisit “Falling Slowly” and the movie’s other enduring songs, and pay homage to Ireland and Ukraine.

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