Naked Woman Steals Cop Car / Daley Leaves Hospital / Cop Charged

Powerful storms rolled through town Monday night that knocked down trees, triggered sirens warning of tornados and ended, like too many Bears games — with no touchdowns.

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• Good news: Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is expected to fully recover from a "neurological event" that landed him in Northwestern Memorial Hospital last week. Daley was transferred to a rehabilitation facility for a "short stay" before going home. (NBC5)
• Why was the naked woman lying in the road? When a police officer stopped to find out in Garfield Park, the naked woman stole his patrol car, ran him over and crashed. (Patch)
• Remember the police officer caught on video shoving around a Black woman walking her dog at North Avenue Beach last year? He quit last week —a move that secures his pension— and was charged with two felonies Monday, including aggravated battery. (WGN9)
• Five more Chicagoans have confirmed cases of monkeypox, public health officials said. One person reported attending the International Mr. Leather in Chicago last month. (ABC7)
• Only one Chicagoan took home a James Beard Award last night. Congrats to Erick Williams, owner of Virtue in Hyde Park, for taking home the medal for Best Chef: Great Lakes. (Eater)

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• Dad's get a free Rainbow Cone on Father's Day.
• WBEZ found the loveliest food pantry in Chicago.
• Cuteness alert: Big roar, little lion.
• Monday was a two homerun night for Jose Abreu in a White Sox winner.
• Photographer Barry Butler camptures Chicago amid the storm.

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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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