Walking Man Burned / Konkol / Gas, Food Giveaway / City Council 'Liar'

An entire classroom of Texas kids and two teachers got slaughtered by an assault rifle-wielding teenager with a speech impediment who got bullied at his high school.

And all I could think about is why there isn't anyone running for Illinois governor — from either political party — offering up a comprehensive plan to do more to protect children in our state, where more kids die from homicide and suicide than any other cause.

KONKOL COLUMN: What Will IL Gov. Candidates Do To Prevent Child Homicide? Not Much.

Threatening. High: 70 Low: 53.

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• Mayoral candidate Willie Wilson is back on the street today giving away money. This time around, the businessman is giving a way coupons $25 of food and $2-a-gallon off gas. (Patch)
• Someone lit Chicago's "Walking Man" on fire early Wednesday. Joseph Kromelis, 75, suffered burns over half his body after someone set him ablaze while he was lying down on Lower Wacker. (Patch)
• Longtime Chicago Democratic state Rep. Luis Arroyo was sentenced to nearly five year prison on bribery charges by a federal judge looking to send a message to corrupt politicians. (NBC5)
• Do you know where your kids are? Because if they're are out unchaperoned past 10 p.m. on weekends in Chicago, that's s a curfew violation. The City Council approved an ordinance that rolls back curfew hours by an hour for kids up to age 17. (ABC7)
• Chicago police are looking for a man who pointed what appeared to be gun at a news crew reporting live from River North on Wednesday morning. Nobody was hurt, or in custody. (FOX32)

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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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