🌱 Sky Parade Day / Konkol Column / Mega Pot Shop / Cop Shot

Get ready to party like it's 1998 — the last time a Chicago pro-basketball time brought home world championship. Today, we'll celebrate the Chicago Sky's WNBA title with a parade down Michigan Avenue that kicks off from Wintrust Arena at 11 a.m. and culminates with a rally at Pritzker Pavilion in Millennial Park.

Patch's Jeff Arnold had details: Chicago To Celebrate Sky's WNBA Title Down Michigan Avenue

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Last week, Gov. J.B. Pritzker made a generous, if not Trump-like, offer to send the National Guard to the violent streets of Chicago. "Obviously, we’ll help in any way we possibly can,” the governor said in an act of political pandering to anyone who might accuse him of being soft on crime while running for re-election. It's too bad Pritkzer seems more willing to offer up an occupying force than significant state funding to address the city's rampant violent crime problem that stretches from poor, neglected neighborhoods to just outside his Gold Coast mansion's front door.

KONKOL COLUMN: Call In National Guard? Pandering Pritzker Plays Trump-Like Card

Perfect day for a parade. High: 71 Low: 56.

• A massive legal weed dispensary is coming to a former Wrigleyville bro-bar. Cresco Labs won zoning approval for Sunnyside Lakeview — a 10,000-square-foot pot shop with 21 check-out lines equipped to serve 2,000 customers per day at the former home of John Barleycorn on Clark Street. (Block Club)
• A former DePaul University student was convicted of A former Chicago college student was convicted on a terrorism charge. A federal jury found Thomas Osadzinski, 22, guilty of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State group. (WGN)
• Nearly 6,000 cops and firefighters — folks that run into burning buildings and dodge bullets – face getting fired for not reporting whether they have been vaccinated against coronavirus to City Hall. Some officers were stripped of their police powers and sent home without pay Monday. Nearly all Streets and Sanitation workers, on the other hand, weren't afraid to let the mayor know their vaccine-status — 24-percent haven't been jabbed. Click to see the city report. (WBEZ)
• A police officer was shot in the face in Lincoln Park after a confrontation at Ulta Beauty. Authorities said a man was in custody. The officer did not suffer life-threatening injuries. (Fox32)

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• Mr. Blotto at Reggie’s (7 p.m.)
• Blackhawks vs. Islanders at United Center (7 p.m.)

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• An armed robbery crew raided four convenience stores downtown Monday. It's a trend.
• Lola's Coney Island brings Detroit hot dogs to Loyola's Rogers Park campus.
• Turns out a ComEd power outage did not cause summer boil orders in Morgan Park.
• There was a protest of a protest outside Ald. James Cappleman's house.
• Chance the Rapper has a Chicago Sky championship hangover.

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