🌱 Bears Downed / Viral 'Cool Auntie' Dance / CPS Enrollment Drop

On Sunday, I was rooting for Bears fill-in head coach, Chris Tabor — who won more games coaching the Culver-Stockton Wildcats in 2001 than the two years I played there a decade earlier.

It was not to be. The Bears' defense let Tabor down, with a second-half disappearing act that led to a 33-22 loss to their San Francisco 49ers.

Jeff Arnold On Sports: With Nagy Gone, Bears' Defense Pulls Big Disappearing Act In Loss

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Chilled. High: 46 Low: 34.

• Chicago Public Schools dropped by 10,000 students so far this year. It's a "minor miracle" enrollment didn't drop even more, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said. (WGN)
• Walter Payton High School Principal Fareeda Shabazz-Anderson showed off her "cool auntie" moves on the dance floor. She went viral online for her fancy footwork at the homecoming dance. Watch ... and smile. (CBS2)
• The City Council Latino Caucus is pushing a new ward map that would replace two majority-Black wards with voting districts with Latino majorities. Ald. Gilbert Villegas calls the proposal a “perfect reflection of Chicago." (WTTW)
• City Hall's vaccine mandate stands, for now. A federal judge blocked an attempt to reverse Mayor Lori Lightfoot's vaccine mandate for all city employees. Judge John Lee ruled there was no evidence the mandate exceeds Lightfoot's authority. (Jurist)
• A Saturday night car crash downtown lead to the arrest of six people — including five kids — who are suspected of carjacking an off-duty Chicago cop's white Toyota 4Runner in suburban Evergreen Park. (ABC7) Scroll for more details.
• Activists protested the abrupt closure of an Aldi's contributing to an expanding food desert in West Garfield Park. "We’re demanding accountability to the community,” Garfield Park Rite to Wellness Collaborative's TJ Crawford said. (Block Club)

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Just The Links:

• Cop who shot at carjackers in Evergreen Park faces felony charges.
• Bears QB Justin Fields threw a pretty pass before everything fell apart Sunday's loss.
• NBA Hall of Famer Toni Kukoc: "Croatia is my hometown, but Chicago is my heart and my home."
• This is what Autumn looks like on Promontory Point. #BarryButler

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