Lake Racing / Patch Poll / BGA Wins 1st Pulitzer / 'Mongo' For HOF

Let's start collecting reasons we're looking forward to summer.

Here's one: Sail Grand Prix's brand of high-speed racing is set to make its fresh water debut on Lake Michigan along the Chicago shoreline next month.

Jeff Arnold took a boat ride to get details: Sail GP Brings Formula One Racing On Water To Lake

Feelin' Good. High: 78 Low: 65.

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• Friends and fans of '85 Super Bow champion Bears star, Steve "Mongo" McMichael, are waging a letter writing campaign in hopes of getting the former defensive lineman inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. McMichael, who suffers from ALS, has lost the ability to speak and move his arms. (WGN9)
• The City Council has reached a tentative deal on a new ward map that keeps the number of Black-majority wards intact, Heather Cherone reports. (WTTW)
• The Better Government Association won its first Pulitzer Prize for a joint investigation with the Tribune documenting the city's years-long failure to enforce fire codes. Former BGA reporter Madison Hopkins and Tribune reporter Cecilia Reyes were awarded the Pulitzer for Local Reporting. (Poynter)
• Aldermen and residents got their first chance to air their grievances regarding Mayor Lori Lightfoot's to select Bally's proposal for a casino in River North. Here's what folks had to say. (NBC5)

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• Justin Bieber at United Center (7:30 p.m.)
• Orion Sun, Deem Spencer at Lincoln Hall (7 p.m.)
• Fivio Foreign at Avondale Music Hall (7 p.m.)
• Take Me To The River All-Stars-New Orleans at City Winery (8 p.m.)
• Oliver Wood of the Wood Brothers, Ric Robertson at Space (8 p.m.)

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• Sign the kids up for summer camp before it's too late.
• A man was shot in a church parking lot.
• UIC student Daniel Sotelo has been missing since last week.
• Check out the guns officers in the Englewood District confiscated this weekend.
• Taco Bell's drag-brunch tour comes strutting into Chicago.

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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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