Soldier Field Dome? / Konkol Column / RIP Chef Tougne / Shootings Down

If the Chicago Bears make good on threats to move a new stadium in the suburbs, Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she's open to recruiting a second NFL team to Soldier Field.

And she's pitching a plan to put a dome on the historic stadium.

Jeff Arnold Reports: Sweet Dome Chicago: Lightfoot, City Announce Soldier Field Plans

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KONKOL COLUMN: Last week's long-winded City Council debate about whether speed cameras are a City Hall cash grab or a valuable tool that makes streets safer made one thing perfectly clear.

Folks living in poor, neglected parts of town are paying Lincoln Park prices to drive cars, fix-up their homes and open businesses in neighborhoods pocked with vacant apartment buildings, strip malls and corner stores.

They pay the same fees and fines, but navigate streets where potholes don't get fixed as expeditiously as the rich part of town, CTA trains don't run, bike lanes are scarce, tourists don't visit, developers don't want to build and big corporations — Target and Whole Foods, for instance — move out after a few years of raking in tax breaks.

Chicago's working class families, what's left of them, aren't getting their money's worth.

COMMENTARY: Speed Camera Debate Shows Poor Neighborhoods Pay Too Much, Get Little

• Shootings are down citywide, but not everywhere, Megan Hickey reports. Police districts in Old Town and North Side neighborhoods along the lakefront have seen a spike in violence. (CBS2)
• White Sox star Minnie Minoso and former Cubs manager Buck O’Neil were posthumously inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. (WGN9)
• Lollapalooza is just three days away. Chicago public health officials want folks to remember to abide by COVID-19 mitigations. On the list: "limit intoxicants." They make people less likely to follow the rules. (NBC5)
• Former Marshall High School basketball star Dyuanla Rainey was shot and killed near her driveway in Maywood. The 22-year old had moved to the suburb with her twin sister with plans to expand their successful daycare business. (ABC7)
• Chez Moi chef Dominque Tougne, Chicago's "Ambassador of French Culture" died of a heart attack. He was 56. (Eater)

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About me: Mark Konkol, recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, wrote and produced the Peabody Award-winning series "Time: The Kalief Browder Story." He was a producer, writer and narrator for the "Chicagoland" docuseries on CNN and a consulting producer on the Showtime documentary "16 Shots."

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