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  • A man heard a woman screaming from inside an abandoned house on the far South Side. "She was screaming, 'Help' ... that is when I made the 911 call. The police said her legs were chained and her hands were handcuffed. (ABC7)
  • Stacy Davis Gates was elected president of the Chicago Teachers Union after a contentious challenge from two union caucuses. Davis Gates received 56-percent of the vote. (FOX32)
  • Two men are being held without bond after being charged in connection with Thursday's mass shooting in the Near North neighborhood. Court documents shed new light on what happened. (NBC5)
  • Yankees designated hitter Josh Donaldson "made a disrespectful comment. Basically, he was trying to call me Jackie Robinson, like, 'What's up, Jackie? I don't play like that," White Sox star Tim Anderson said after Saturday's game. Sox skipper Tony La Russa called Donaldson's remark racist. Anderson agreed. Major League Baseball officials plan to investigate. (The Score)
  • Watch out: Robbers are targeting Divvy bike riders on the lakefront trail. It’s happened twice since May 13 (CWB)

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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."

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