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The Illinois Supreme Court last week ruled that indicted elected officials are allowed under state law to spend campaign cash to pay their criminal defense attorneys, effectively giving former House Speaker Michael Madigan permission to continue to tap political war chests engorged by his biggest donor — Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

KONKOL COLUMN: Madigan Defends Himself With Swollen Campaign Fund Thanks To Gov.

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• An intoxicated man jumped the fence at Midway Airport and attempted to climb on a private plane. There wasn't a Hollywood ending. He was arrested after getting naked on the runway. (Patch)
• Bank robbers dressed in security uniforms got away with $100,000 from a Chase Bank branch near Roosevelt Road and Ashland Avenue. The actual security guard was punching in the code to get in the backroom, and that's when they bum rushed her and put everybody on the floor and got to that back vault," an officer was heard saying over the scanner. (CBS2)
• Getting slapped by the Fresh Prince at the Oscars is good for business. There's been a surge in demand for tickets to Chris Rock's "Ego Death" comedy tour, which makes a stop in Chicago in October. (NBC5)
• Putting a casino along the Chicago River is about as bad as putting one on the lakefront, Patty Wetli reports. “We’re so close to people believing the river is an actual resource, that it’s alive and not dead,” Friends of the Chicago River executive director Margaret Frisbie said. (WTTW)

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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."