CPS $100 Jabs / Nagy's Back / Kanye's Eyebrows / Playground Fire

Bad news for fellow Bears fans who were quietly wishing head coach Matt Nagy would get stuck in a hotel due to NFL coronavirus quarantine protocols for another week.

Jeff Arnold on Sports: Bears Coach Nagy Clears COVID-19 Protocol, To Coach In Pittsburgh

Sunshiny. High: 51 Low: 38

• Attention astrophotography fans: A rare lunar eclipse is coming this month. That is all.
• Someone set fire to the playground at Nixon Elementary School in the Hermosa neighborhood. The Chicago Teachers Union tweeted a photo of the blaze. (Patch)
• A reminder that my neighborhood's excellent vegan restaurant, Majani, should not be overlooked once Culver's opens in Pullman on Monday. (Eater)
• Behind the Tribune's paywall, reporters Tracy Swartz and Christy Gutowski offer an excellent behind-the-mic look at the "toxic and sexist" culture in local radio from the perspective women who worked there. (Tribune)
• Signing up your kid for a coronavirus vaccination at Chicago Public Schools' mobile van can earn parents a $100 gift card. (Chalkbeat)
• Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx has moved to vacate the convictions of five people as part of an investigation into the corrupt career of former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts. (ABC7)

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• Kanye West shaved his eyebrows. Some fans are worried.
• Here's a fond Bears memory: No one did it better than Devin Hester.
• Love "Squid Game" on Netflix? Visit the Squid Arcade at Replay in Lincoln Park.
• Another day, another eight robbery victims in West Town, CWB reports.
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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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