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  • A baby was shot inside a car parked in the Craigin neighborhood Friday night. The 1-year-old was shot in the head by a shooter in a white SUV. No one had been arrested late Friday. (NBC5)
  • Forty percent of Chicago Public Schools are expected to face budget cuts as enrollment continues to decline districtwide, Sarah Karp reports. (WBEZ)
  • There is a "tint of racism" when "anything that happens outside of the Black and brown communities is defined as a crisis," New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at a Friday news conference following a sit-down chat with Mayor Lori Lightfoot at her City Hall office. Adams invited himself. (Fox32).
  • Willie Wilson's free-gas give away snarled traffic Thursday. Now, the philanthropist and former mayoral candidate plans to give away $1 million in gas next week. (Patch)

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  • Subtronics: The Fractual Tour at the Aragon Ballroom Theater (7:15 p.m.)
  • Ween at The Riv (7:30 p.m.)
  • Chicago Fire vs. Sporting Kansas City at Soldier Field (5 p.m.)
  • Jeezy and K. Michelle at The Chicago Theater (8 p.m.)
  • Eagles at United Center (8 p.m.)
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Sunday, March 20

  • Animal Collective, L’Rain at The Vic (7:30 p.m.)
  • Ween at The Riv (7:30 p.m.)
  • Jets at Blackhawks at United Center (6 p.m.)
  • Dave Hause and the Mermaid at Lincoln Hall (7 p.m.)
  • Oleta Adams at City Winery (8 p.m.)

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  • Lowered Costs for 2022, Get Your Cannabis Card in 24hrs from Home! (March 19)
  • Poppin Events Co. presents Pop into Spring Shopping Pop Up (March 19)
  • Pino Farina Band at Uncommon Ground/Edgewater (March 20)
  • Savor Lincoln Park 2022 (March 22)
  • Music with the Rabbi (March 22)
  • American Diabetes Association Diabetes Alert Day: Understand Your Risk (March 22)
  • FREE Concealed Carry "CCL" Training Class (March 26)
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Mark Konkol

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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