Viral Bleacher Brawl Video / Chuoy the Buoy / Konkol Column / Sox Win

At Manny's Deli on Wednesday, I scored some Chicagwa — City Hall's new brand of Chicago tap water in cans — to wash down a $21 Reuben sandwich and share a taste of Lake Michigan with strangers.

"It tastes like it's coming out of a hose when you're 10-years-old," Rich Franco said, which, to me, sounded like a compliment.

It's a flavor ex-Chicagoans who have fled to Arizona, Florida, Texas and California must miss every time they take a drink from the kitchen tap at their new water-challenged address.

City Hall should sell Chicagwa to them.

KONKOL COLUMN: 'Chicagwa' Should Be Money-Making Export To Ex-Chicagoans, Snowbirds

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• The CEO of Bally's, the rumored front-runner to build Chicago's first casino, was in town Wednesday to meet with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. City Hall's decision is imminent. And 1st Ward Ald. Brian Hopkins isn't happy about it, Mary Ann Ahern reports. (NBC5)
• An Edgewater apartment building was the scene of a homicide and a suicide a day apart. Police are investigating whether the deaths are connected. (ABC7)
• The Sox beat the Cubs 4-3 Wednesday. In other Crosstown Series news, viral video of a "very strange fight" in the Wrigley Field bleachers starred a fat Cubs fan using his girth to pin down a bald Cubs fan. Viewer discretion advised. (NYPost)
• Oak Street Beach made Travel And Leisure's Top 25 Best U.S. Beaches. Indeed, the view of traffic on Du Sable Lake Shore Drive is beautiful in the summer. (T+L)
• Read Patty Wetli's story about "Chuoy the Buoy." It's the tale of a buoyant, data-collecting robot keeping tabs on Lake Michigan's unpredictable conditions to keep swimmers and boaters safe. (WTTW)

For A Good Time, Click:

• Saba: The Back Home Tour at Aragon Ballroom (6:30 p.m.)
• The Lemon Twigs, Tchotchke at Lincoln Hall (7:30 p.m.)
• Omar Apollo, deb never, Tora-I at The Riv (8:30 p.m)
• The Mavericks at Thalia Hall (8 p.m.)
• Steven Page (formerly of Barenaked Ladies) at Old Town School of Folk Music (8 p.m.)

Just The Links:

• Looking for a place to celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Urban Matter has suggestions.
• The world's largest bouncy house is coming to the suburbs.
• Former Cubs skipper Dusty Baker became the first Black manager to win 2,000 games.
• The Lewis brothers started a podcast to deal with their sadness about the Bears.
• A locker room portrait of the Crosstown Champs.

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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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