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We're come back to the work week after bloody weekend in Millennium Park.

A 16-year-old was shot dead during a massive gathering near 'The Bean" Saturday night.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced unaccompanied minors under the age of 18 are banned from visiting Millennium Park after 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday.

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  • A wide-scale surveys of air quality in Chicago found stretches of Little Village had the highest pollution levels in Chicago. Austin, Englewood, Auburn Gresham, Irving Park and Avondale also topped the list of neighborhoods with the worst air quality. (WBEZ)
  • One person was hurt in an Irving Park apartment fire over night. Good news: Firefighters rescued a dog hiding under a bed inside the blaze. (CBS2)
  • Three women — ages 67, 70 and 75 — were found dead at a Rogers Park senior citizen apartment building that didn't have air conditioning on during last week's heat wave. (Patch)
  • Chicago-based McDonald's plans to remove its golden arches from Russia. The burger chain plans to sell 850 restaurants that employ 62,000 people, making it the latest major Western corporation to exit Russia since it invaded Ukraine in February. (WGN9)
  • What is it like to get shot at while driving your car? "“I heard a loud screech, and that’s when I heard the shots. I hit the gas, I keep hearing shots, and I hit the wall,” a man driving in Rogers Park said. (NBC5)

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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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