Gas Tax Rollback / Bears Back-Up QB / Radio Pirate / Bright Eyes

Mayor Lori Lightfoot plans to roll back the city's recent 3-cents-a-gallon gasoline tax hike, which amounts to about $18-million in revenue for the remainder of this year.

The proposal will be considered at Monday’s City Council Finance Committee meeting.

Finance Committee Chairman, Ald. Scott Waguespack said, "It is mostly helping those people that are in need of saving every penny they can during the price surge."

FOX32: Lightfoot to waive 3-cents-a-gallon gas tax hike temporarily to ease pain at pump

Sunday: Bright. High: 34 Low: 25.

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• "Black and Brown homeowners are low-balled by bank appraisers compared to their white counterparts.," Hugo Balta reports. A new report found 7.4 percent of appraisals in majority-white census areas were below a property’s contract price. However, that figure jumped to 12.5 percent for Black regions and 15.4 percent for Hispanic-Latino census districts. (Chicago Reporter)
• The Bears signed a new back-up quarterback. Former Northwestern quarterback Trevor Siemian, who most recently played for the Saints, to a two-year contract worth $4 million, Jeff Arnold reports. (Patch)
• A pandemic-born summer tradition is sticking around. Sundays on State, a socially distant block party that made part of State Street downtown a pedestrian-only block party for shoppers. (Eater)
• Three out-of-state teenagers planned on committing "mass murders" at Chicago mosques and synagogues, according to recently unsealed court documents. The group planned on entering the "Shia mosque and separate the adults from the children, then murder the adults” all in the name of ISIS. (NBC)
• WORTH A LISTEN: Meet the senior citizen radio pirate from the North Side who has been risking Federal Communications Commission fines for 15 years. Bill, a retired computer and audio engineer, doesn't want you to know his last name so he can stay out of "FCC prison." (WBEZ)

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• No Joke: The World Comedy Expo is coming to Chicago.
• My favorite Cajun restaurant in The Loop, Heaven on Seven, is for sale, recipes included.

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