New 11th Ward Boss / Konkol On 'Pizza City' / Population Decline

Don't believe the fake pizza news circulating on social media.

The latest "definitive list of the best cities for pizza" — based on AnytimeEstimate.com's statistical computation of demographics, Google search trends, cheese-pizza prices and three list-making publishers, including Pizza Today — is a bunch of bunk.

Detroit is not now, nor ever will be, America's No. 1 pizza city.

KONKOL COLUMN: Latest Best-City Clickbait Has Ingredients For Worst Pizza List

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• Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she plans to push the City Council to give Chicagoans some relief from skyrocketing prices at the pump. “We’ve got to do our part at the city level to provide some relief for people that are struggling,” she said. (NBC)
• Chicago Public Schools is flush with coronavirus relief cash but slow to spend it, according to reporter Sarah Karp's analysis of district spending. About 69 percent of the $536 million budgeted this year — some $370 million — is unspent. (WBEZ)
• Mayor Lori Lightfoot tapped Chinatown native Nicole Lee to replace felonious former 11th Ward alderman Patrick Daley Thompson, who was forced to resign after being convicted for cheating on his taxes and bank fraud last month. (Patch)
• The Chicago metro area's population declined by about 90,000 people during the coronavirus crisis. Deaths outpaced births and people moved out of town, according to a new U.S. Census report. (AP)

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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."