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Bliss. High: 85 Low: 72.

  • The White Sox beat the Cubs in 12 innings on a walk-off home run to clinch the crosstown season series 3-1. But there was little reason to celebrate. Tim Anderson left the game with a groin injury. (SBNation)
  • The body of missing University of Illinois-Chicago student Daniel Sotelo was pulled from Lake Michigan about a mile offshore, authorities said. Sotelo and his girlfriend, UIC student Natally Brookson, went missing in April. Her body was found in the lake earlier this month. (Patch)
  • So far this holiday weekend, 32 people have been shot, six fatally. (CBS2)
  • Two firefighters were injured battling a house fire in the Back of the Yards neighbborhood Sunday. (NBC5)

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