COVID Dog / Going Maskless / Paczki Day Prep / Bribe-Taking Cop

While I wasn’t paying attention, my corner of the far South Side had become a paczki desert.

Calumet Bakery in South Deering, a long-trusted local Paczki Day destination, closed last year.

Let my South Side hunt for pillowy soft Polish doughnuts packed with custard, fruit and cheese, and lightly dusted with powdered sugar serves as a reminder.

Get your orders in before it's too late.

KONKOL COLUMN: Get Your Paczki Order In Or Prepare For A Not-So-Fat Tuesday

Saturday: Breezy. High: 34 Low: 28.

Sunday: Bright. High: 36 Low: 23.

• Ald. Matt O'Shea pumped gas and washed windshields at Kean Bros. in Mt. Greenwood Friday to raise cash to replace bulletproof vests for Chicago cops. (Patch)
• A Chicago police sergeant facing termination for accepting a bribe resigned before he could be fired. Marine Unit Sgt. Eduardo Beltran took $1,000 from a diver famous for recovering former Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo's wedding the bottom of Lake Michigan. (WGN)
• The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear Gov. J.B. Pritzker's appeal to rulings voiding his statewide school mask mandate. Pritzker issued a statement in the wake of the decision announcing that the state will remove its school mask mandate Monday, Jonah Meadows reports. (Patch)
• The state's changes to school mask requirements won't affect Chicago Public Schools, where students will still be required to mask up. (WGN)
• Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs will honor the final wishes of former Chicago Public School teacher the late Grace Scipio by turning over $250,000 from the woman's unclaimed bank account to Spelman College, a historically Black college in Atlanta. (Defender)

For A Good Time, Click:

Saturday:

• K. Flay w/ Corook, Upsahl at Park West (7:30 p..m.)
• The Secret Sisters at Old Town School of Folk Music (8 p.m.)
• Dave Brubeck - The Chick Corea Tribute at Epiphany Center for The Arts (7:30 p.m.)
• Theo Von - Return of the Rat Tour at Chicago Theater (7 p.m.)
• David Archuleta - Meet and Greet at City Winery (3:30 p.m.)

Sunday:

• Sal Vulcano at The Vic (5 p.m., 8 p.m.)
• Blues vs. Blackhawks at United Center (2 p.m.)
• Spinosaurus at Auditorium Theater (2 p.m.)
• Proxima Parada, Desmond Jones at Schubas (7 p.m.)
• Yungblud, The Life on Mars Tour at the Aragon Ballroom (7 p.m.)

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Just The Links:

• For the first time, a dog was diagnosed with coronavirus in Illinois.
• Gordon Ramsey's Hell's Kitchen is set to open in River North next year.
• The CDC has a color-coded map of where mask-wearing rules can be relaxed.
• Chicagoans took to the streets in support of Ukraine Friday night.
• The Illinois Black Hall of Fame is set to open at Governors State University in June.

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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."