Good morning, Chicago.
Hot, steamy air blowing into Illinois from a heat dome moving east across the country has kicked off at least a week of dangerous heat, with humidity peaking Saturday through Monday. These kinds of sticky temperatures with little to no overnight relief can pose a major to extreme risk to the health of anyone without access to effective cooling or adequate hydration.
The National Weather Service has forecast daytime temperatures in the Chicago area will reach highs in the low to mid-90s beginning Saturday and early into the week, while humidity will make several days in a row feel like at least 100 degrees. Nighttime temps will be in the low to upper 70s, but it might feel as hot as 90 degrees.
“The temperatures themselves aren’t even that impressive,” said Trent Ford, the Illinois state climatologist.
But that’s dangerous, because people don’t take this kind of heat as seriously as they should.
Read the full story from Adriana Pérez and Lily Carey.
Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day, including: new spaces in Chicago for queer women to build deep connections, why Wrigley Field deserves another All-Star Game and a chance to see Francis Ford Coppola live at the Chicago Theatre and ask him questions.
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Alderman pledges to fight Mayor Brandon Johnson’s vowed curfew veto, won’t ‘twist arms’
As Mayor Brandon Johnson promises to veto the teen curfew ordinance passed by aldermen, the measure’s lead sponsor says he will keep fighting to make it law.
Ald. Brian Hopkins, 2nd, won out over Johnson in the City Council Wednesday when his plan to give Chicago’s police superintendent power to declare teen curfews anytime, anywhere passed in a 27-22 vote. But his victory could be fleeting.
Acting police commander finds path to leadership despite issues in work history
A Chicago police supervisor who was involved in the bungled probe of the punch thrown by a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley that left a young man dead is now overseeing investigations of the most serious crimes in the downtown area and on the city’s North Side, the Tribune has learned.
That lieutenant, Sam Cirone, was also a defendant in a federal wrongful conviction lawsuit that the City Council this week agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle.
President Trump says he’ll decide whether US will directly attack Iran within 2 weeks
President Donald Trump said he will make up his mind within two weeks on whether the U.S. military will get directly involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran given the “substantial chance” for renewed diplomatic negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program,
U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider said leaders he met with in Middle East don’t want Iran to have a nuclear weapon
After a bipartisan trip to Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider said leaders from all three nations made it clear they do not want Iran to have a nuclear weapon but are hoping for a peaceful resolution to the conflict with Israel.
“They do not want Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” said Schneider. “They are concerned about the fighting and hope to see a diplomatic solution.”
ICE raids and their uncertainty scare off workers and baffle businesses
Farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers breathed a sigh of relief last week when President Donald Trump ordered a pause to immigration raids that were disrupting those industries and scaring foreign-born workers off the job. But that respite didn’t last long.
On Wednesday, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said, “Worksite enforcement remains a cornerstone of our efforts to safeguard public safety, national security and economic stability.’’
Some US restaurants and servers oppose President Trump’s ‘no tax on tips’ budget proposal
Some segments of the U.S. restaurant industry don’t support President Donald Trump’s proposal to eliminate federal taxes on tips, saying it would help too few people and obscure bigger issues in the way tipped workers are paid.
“I think there’s a huge hole in this concept of ‘no tax on tips’ because a lot of restaurant workers aren’t receiving tips in the first place,” said Elyanna Calle, a bartender in Austin, Texas, and president of the Restaurant Workers United union. “It’s not helping most kitchen workers, and oftentimes those are the people who are being paid the least.”
She wanted more spaces in Chicago for queer women to build deep connections with each other — so she made her own social club.
Pink Sappho is part of a resurgence in Chicago of spaces dedicated for queer women. Tracy Baim, a journalist who has covered the LGBTQ+ community in Chicago for more than 40 years, said that there are more spaces for queer women today than there were at any point in her career.
Route 66: Feeling less alone at an Oklahoma protest
Few, if any, thought they were going to change minds by standing on a patch of grass along Route 66 and holding signs decrying Donald Trump’s presidency. All 77 Oklahoma counties voted to return him to the White House. Here in Beckham County, at the state’s western edge, he carried 84% of the vote.
Still, many of the 40 people who gathered Saturday for Elk City’s piece of the nationwide “No Kings Day” protests said, at least for that moment, they felt less alone.
Column: Wrigley Field deserves another All-Star Game, and the Chicago Cubs should get ready to host in 2027
Now that the City Council has done its part to get an All-Star Game at Wrigley Field, approving a measure to provide city and state funding to help subsidize the Chicago Cubs’ plan to install security bollards around the ballpark, the ball is in the hands of Major League Baseball. But now MLB has no excuse not to award the Cubs the 2027 All-Star Game. The Cubs finally got help from the politicians, and an official announcement should come soon.
After all, Wrigley is baseball’s mecca, and it deserves to get its moment in the spotlight, writes Paul Sullivan.
Live at the Chicago Theatre: Francis Ford Coppola, ‘Megalopolis’ and your questions
Hiding in plain sight, “Megalopolis” is no longer streaming anywhere (it was available, briefly, as a digital download) and it’s not on DVD. There’s a reason. Its writer-director prefers that you experience his long-brewing, half-mad argument for democracy, aesthetics and a brighter future in a big way. Not a small, pauseable one.
One of modern cinema’s towering figures will embark on a multi-city tour of “An Evening with Francis Ford Coppola and ‘Megalopolis’ Screening” that includes a July 25 Chicago Theatre event. The film presentation will be followed by Coppola’s discussion, built around questions from the audience, on the topic “How to Change Our Future.”
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