Coronation celebrations in Chicago – Chicago Tribune

Good morning, Chicago.

It’s road construction season. Brace yourself for closures, uneven pavement, and delays.

Drivers this spring and summer can expect paving projects around the city and suburbs and closures around Grant Park during the NASCAR Chicago Street Race in July. And, of course, snarled traffic on the Kennedy Expressway, where the first year of a multiyear construction project is underway.

Along with construction and other roadway projects, drivers will also have to contend with summer concerts and festivals downtown. Here’s an updating list of those so you know when to add a little more time to your commute.

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The federal convictions of four people on bribery conspiracy charges for providing favors to gain influence with former Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan could be seen as a vital opening for Illinois Republicans, who have been bordering on irrelevancy in a state controlled by one party. But there are doubts, even among some within the GOP, that the convictions of the “ComEd Four” will move the needle much with voter.

Just days before he is set to take office, Brandon Johnson has extended olive branches to the business community and given signals that the lines of communication between them and his office will remain open.

Everyone is mediocre at something, writes Christopher Borrelli, but to be singularly terrible is a feat.

The months before the WNBA season were defined by an upheaval of the 25-year-old’s entire life focus: first the late discovery of her pregnancy while playing abroad, then her son’s birth on April 11. At the Sky’s first training session Sunday, the entire team’s embrace of its new role in the 3-week-old baby’s life was reflected.

The coronation will take place in London tomorrow morning, and some Chicagoans aren’t going to let being 4,000 miles from the crown stop them from celebrating.