Daley Hospitalized / Konkol / Will R. Kelly Get 25 Years? / Blues Fest

Recently retired Ald. Michael Scott Jr. wants his sister to replace him as 24th Ward boss.

Or his chief of staff, Charles Rice. The former ward boss would be pleased if the selection committee and, ultimately, Mayor Lori Lightfoot picked either as his successor.

Well, what Chicago needs now is another legacy alderman — like it needs more shootings on a Thursday night.

KONKOL COLUMN: Chicago Doesn't Need Another Family Legacy Alderman In City Council

Pretty. High: 75 Low: 62.

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• Former Mayor Richard Daley is in the hospital. Daley, who turned 80 in April, was taken to Northwestern in an ambulance Wednesday. His longtime spokeswoman Jacqueline Heard said the former mayor was alert and talking with family. Get well soon, mayor. (CBS2)

• The machete-wielding man wanted for a string of North Side robberies is in custody. Andre Gonzalez, 35, has what looks like an owl neck tattoo, and faces four counts of armed robbery. (Patch)
• The 20-year-old hero who saved a fellow CTA rider that fell on the Red Line's electrified third rail was rewarded with a car. Early Walker, founder of "I’m Telling, Don’t Shoot, " gave Anthony Perry a 2008 Audi on Wednesday. (WGN9)
• New York prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Chicago hip-hop star R. Kelly to 25 years in prison for his conviction on racketeering charges related to the abuse of women and girls. (ABC7)
• An unidentified man was found dead with a cord wrapped around his neck in a Ford City Mall parking lot. "Gruesome," police called the homicide. No one is in custody. (Patch)

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• Tributosaurius becomes Crosby, Stills and Nash at Martyrs (7 p.m.)
• Reik: En Cambio USA Tour at Rosemont Theater (8 p.m.)
• Chicago Blues Festival at Millennium Park (12 p.m.)

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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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