Taste Of Chicago Returns / Konkol On GOP Debate / Paul Vallas 4 Mayor

For the first time, all six Republican gubernatorial candidates are scheduled to participate in ABC7's candidate forum tonight.

Here's hoping we can skip variations of familiar questions, including but not limited to:

"Did you vote for Trump?"

"Does Trump make you happy or sad?"

"How much Trump could a Trump trump, if a Trump could trump a Trump?"

KONKOL COLUMN: Chance Of GOP Governor Hopefuls Answering Tough Questions Is Debatable

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• A Chicago police officer was shot during a traffic stop in Englewood. Someone inside the car suddenly shot into the squad car, wounding the officer in the shoulder, Lorraine Swanson reports. (Patch)
• Paul Vallas is running for mayor again. "Chicago Public Schools aren't putting students first. Lead in our water is poisoning children. Sky-high property taxes are driving people out of their homes. Violent crime is rampant. Chicago is burning," Vallas said in his YouTube announcement. (Patch)
• The Illinois Department of Child Services didn't investigate claims of neglect against an the mother of Amaria Osby for over two months. Now the 8-year-old girl is dead. Her mother admitted to suffocating her with a plastic bag, Chris Tye reports. (Patch)
• “I am another head on a pike in the public square,” former Park District board president Avis LaVelle was recorded saying about her resignation in the wake of the lifeguard sex abuse scandal uncovered on her watch, Dan Mihalopoulos reports. (WBEZ)
• Taste of Chicago is making a comeback — and Grant Park can no longer hold it. The return of the annual food fest will have three consecutive mini-Taste weekend festivals in Austin, Pullman and Little Village. (Eater Chicago)

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Kraftwerk 3-D at The Aragon Ballroom (8 p.m.)
Luke Winslow- King Ft. Roberto at Space (7:30 p.m.)
Sophia Galate w/ The Juju Exchange at Schubas (7:30 p.m.)
Cathay Richardson at City Winery (8 p.m.)
Juan Luis Guerra at Allstate Arena (7:30 p.m.)

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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."

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