Sorry, Lori Ain't Sorry / Zach Levin Signs $215M Extension / Ambushed

Be good and play nice over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, as my mother always says.

Maybe this will save you a Google search: "Fireworks near me."

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Saturday: Perfect Pool Day. High: 82 Low: 69.

Sunday: Wear Sunscreen. High: 86 Low: 71

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• Zach is back! Bulls star Zach Levine inked a 5-year, $215,000 contract extension, the biggest payday in team history, Jeff Arnold reports. (Patch)
• "I just wish he’d leave us alone," said Arcan Abu-hashish, owner of Supreme Smoke Shop in Jefferson Park. His shop was one of several minority-owned stores that were tagged with swastikas. (Patch)
• "They were ambushed," Supt. David Brown said of a shooting left an officer seriously wounded Friday morning. "This wasn't a matter of police tactics. They were ambushed, clearly. The offender had intentions to harm them." (Patch)
• Sorry, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is not sorry for using a bad word to insult a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas. The mayor said,"Thomas has proven himself over and over again - particularly in that concurring opinion - that he is somebody who doesn't care or respect the rights of anyone except for himself." My take: Some people need to get thicker skin. (ABC7)

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— Mark Konkol

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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