'Bean' Curfew Starts / Cops Fight Highway 'Dueling' / David Spade

The mother of a second-grade student at Chicago's Walt Disney Magnet School faces misdemeanor charges for endangering a child after police said the boy brought a gun to school, where it accidentally discharged, injuring another student.

Despite having no previous arrests, Tatanina Kelly, 28, was ordered held on a $10,000 bond.

Jeff Arnold Reports: Mom Charged After Gun Goes Off In Son's Backpack, Injuring Boy: CPD

Beachy. High: 80 Low: 70.

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• Expressway shootouts are "almost like a modern form of dueling," Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly said. Click to get a reporter's view of what state police are doing about it during a wild ride-a-long tracking a stolen car on the Dan Ryan. (ABC7)
• Channel 9 caught up with "Chicago's Queen of Blues Guitar," Joanna Connor at a Kingston Mines show, where she stands out among the Bluesmen. “I’m a mom. I look like a mom. I don’t fit the image, you know?” she said. (WGN9)
• Unaccompanied kids must leave Millennium Park before the streetlights come on this weekend. City Hall's 6 p.m. curfew for parkland near "The Bean" starts today. (NBC5)
• A Chicago police sergeant tied to a crew of corrupt cops resigned this week just as records regarding a 16-year-old misconduct charge involving extortion became public, Chip Mitchell reports. (WBEZ)
• Chicago Public Schools officials pledged to stop automatically enrolling high school freshmen in military classes. The policy change came following an investigation that found hundreds of predominantly Black and Latino high school students were forced to participate in a “voluntary” military classes. (Chalkbeat)

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