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- One of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s body guards may have prevented a mass shooting Tuesday by arresting a Wisconsin man spotted with a military-grade weapon loaded with armor piercing bullets near Millennium Park. (WGN9)
- Flames shot from the roof of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Englewood on Friday. Sky 5 has video of the blaze that ravaged the historic church.. (NBC5)
- Two Bulls assistant coaches tested positive for coronavirus. Chris Fleming and Damian Cotter will not travel to Milwaukee for the team’s first playoff appearance in five years. (WGN9)
- Ald Jason C. Ervin (28th) says Black aldermen are under attack in the ward remap battle, Chinta Strausberg reports. “Out of the 19 committees in the City Council, 9 of them are chaired by Black folks,” he said. “The only way to knock us out of those positions is to knock us out of office.” (Crusader)
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