Put A Dome On Soldier Field? / Ex-Alderman Gets Jail Time / Big Baby

In what many believe could be a Hail Mary to try to keep the Chicago Bears from leaving the city’s lakefront, City Hall released a report calling for putting a dome on Soldier Field, Jeff Arnold reports.

Dome Sweet Home? City Panel May Push For Soldier Field Topper To Keep Bears In Town

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• Former Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson was sentenced to four months in prison. The grandson and nephew of Chicago mayors had been convicted of bank fraud and filing false tax returns. (ABC7)
• Jerry Harris, a former "Cheer" star, was sentenced to 12 years in prison Wednesday. The cheerleading docu-series star pleaded guilty to sex crimes that included child pornography. (CBS2)
• Former Bears general manager Ryan Pace continues to add cast-off players from his former team to the Atlanta Falcons roster, where he now works in the front office. Eddie Goldman, former Bears lineman, became the sixth former Chicago player signed by the Falcons. (NBC5)
• Chicago's police misconduct watchdog has launched an invetigation after video showing an off-duty Chicago cop pinning a 14-year-old boy to the ground in suburban Park Ridge made the rounds on social media. (FOX32)
• More than $100,000 has been raised to help Chicago Public Schools teacher Zoe Kolpack and her family recover after being shot and wounded during the mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July Parade Monday. (Chalkbeat)
• White Sox slugger Eloy Jimenez — also known as "Big Baby" — hit a home run in his first game back in the line-up after 60 days on the injured list. (ESPN)

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