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About Lori Lightfoot's gas and transit card giveaway. She tweaked it.

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot's Gas Card Program Advances, After Tweaks To Appease Skeptical Aldermen

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• The Bulls beat the heavily favored Bucks in Milwaukee, knotting the playoff series 1-1.
• Attention backyard ornithologists: There's been a new piping plover sighting at Rainbow Beach. Frankly, it's about time the piping plovers discovered South Shore. Chicago's best beaches are on the South Side. (Patch)
• 15,0000 stoners have been forgiven. Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx celebrated the milestone number of expunged pot cases with a press release. "I am proud," she said. (NBC5)
• Last week's raging fire left the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church unstable. The historic walls of the historic Englewood church must come down, city officials said. (Patch)
• A 24-year-old woman was shot in the chest by someone she didn't know. It happened in a Lincoln Square backyard near Western and Eastwood avenues. (Patch)
• A second student has accused Chicago Public School security guard Tywain Carter of sexual assault. Last month the 29-year-old was charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old student. (Fox32)

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• Chicago Teacher Union tweeters have endorsed Abbott Elementary, the TV show.
• J is for Jamaican Iguana, according to the Lincoln Park Zoo's latest YouTube short.
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