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• Chicago's top doc wants Lollapalooza revelers to test their illegal drugs for fentanyl before taking a snort or popping a pill at the Grant Park music fest. Also, don't forget to pack Narcan. (CBS2)
• Will someone at the city transportation department please fix the streetlights in the 113th block of Wallace Street. They've been out for weeks, Roseland neighbors say. (NBC5)
• Shedd Aquarium has two new residents. You can watch female southern Rockhopper penguins, Tussock and Pinguino in the Polar Play Zone at Shedd Aquarium. In private, Shedd scientists hope they make babies. The population of rockhopper penguins are declining. (Patch)
• Mayor Lori Lightfoot signed an executive order banning the police department from helping outside agencies investigate people who travel to Chicago for abortions. (WTTW)
• Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell says the festival remain in Chicago for another decade. "The mayor has given us a 10-year extension in the park,” Farrell told WGN’s Dean Richards. (WGN9)

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• Wallows w/ Pom Pom Squad at The Vic (10 p.m.)
• Lollapalooza at Grant Park (Noon)
• Gracie Abrams w/ Mia Joy at Lincoln Hall (10 p.m.)
• Summer Wine Fest at Lincoln Park Zoo (6 p.m.)
• Celese Barber: Fine, Thanks at Chicago Theater (7 p.m.)

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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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