30 Years For R. Kelly / Willie Wilson $2M Gas Giveaway / Bike Lanes

Willie Wilson is giving away money again to ease financial pain at the gas pump.

Lorraine Swanson has details: Mayoral Hopeful Willie Wilson Plans $2 Million Gas Giveaway

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• A judge sentenced R. Kelly to 30 years in prison. “Although sex was certainly a weapon that you used, this is not a case about sex. It’s a case about violence, cruelty and control,” U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly told Kelly, who didn't speak in court. (NBC5)
• Dakotah Earley, who was shot and critically wounded in a Lincoln Park robbery last months spoke publicly for the first time in a video posted on social media. (CWB)
• Good news for cyclists. City officials plan to upgrade protected bike lanes with concrete barriers by the end of next year in what they're calling "the biggest expansion and upgrade of low stress bikes routes in city history." (FOX32)
• "Right now, no operator, no train person feels safe coming to work," said Keith Hill, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 241. "The attacks are up, the assaults are up, now we've got a murder on a bus." (ABC7)
• What did Citadel owner Ken Griffin get by infusing $50 million into the Illinois Republican primary? Not much, Dan Mihalopolous reports. (WBEZ)

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