Sky Wins Title / Malort Soup / Rogers Owns Bears / CTA Chicken

To quote Dwayne Wade's tweet: "LEGEND!!!!! Candace Parker went back home and got that chip!" A WNBA Title, that is. The Chicago Sky clinched the team's first WNBA crown with a late come-back win over the Phoenix Mercury at a sold-out Windtrust Area on Sunday.

Sky Superfan, Chance the Rapper, plans to celebrate with a tattoo of the team's choosing.

At a time when Chicagoans really needed a win — the Sky delivered. See you at the parade Tuesday!

JEFF ARNOLD ON SPORTS: Candace Parker's Championship Homecoming Becomes Reality

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A sunny, championship Sky. High: 69 Low: 53.

• Listen Up: Catch Jon Hansen's "It's All Good" podcast for Block Club as the intrepid broadcaster talks about how the Chicago Sky's championship run could impact girls hoops in Chicago. (iTunes)
• What's scarier than Malort Soup? You'll have to check out chef Rick Bayless' culinary entree into immersive theater, A Recipe For Disaster. The circus-inspired farce opens Wednesday in Petterino's basement. (Eater)
• The standoff between City Hall and the Chicago police union over the city's employee vaccine mandate coincides with a new order: Police officer elective time off is restricted until further notice. "This should have been very simple issue for us. Get vaccinated ... instead it's become a battle of wits," Ald. Ray Lopez said. (ABC7)
• When will we start seeing smiles indoors again? Chicago's top doc, Dr. Allison Arwady says she expects masking mandates could be rolled back by the end of the year if the number of new cases per day drops below 200. "We're a little over 300 cases right now, so when we're halfway in that substantial mark, we will recommend taking them off," she said. (ABC7)
• A Lincoln Park carjacker got busted by ... AirPods. That's right, the cops caught up with Kejuan Franklin, who faces charges for allegedly hopping off a bicycle and hijacking a car at gun point, by tracking the victim's earbuds to the 18-year-old's pocket. (CWB)

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• Packers quarterback Aaron Rogers to Bears fans after touchdown run: "I still own you."
• Chicago's Children's Choir celebrates 65 years of singing with a new collaboration.
• Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his wife made $5.1 million during the coronavirus crisis.
• The police officer who accused former top cop Eddie Johnson of sexual abuse is seeking on-duty disability for post-traumatic stress disorder.

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