🌱 Weekend Violence + James Beard Awards + Malibu 'Barbie' Pop-Up

It's Tuesday, Chicago. Let's get to today's top stories.

But first, today's weather: Sunshine and patchy clouds. High: 69 Low: 58.

Here are the top 4 stories in Chicago today:

1. More than 40 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, according to the police department. One person was killed and six were injured in a shooting Saturday at a party in Austin. (WGN)

2. More than 260 new police officers graduated Monday in a ceremony at Navy Pier. “I will have your back,” Mayor Brandon Johnson told the class. “If we’re gonna have a society that we all can be proud of and a society we can raise our families in, it’s gonna take all of us.” (Paid source: Sun-Times)

3. The 32nd annual James Beard Restaurant and Chef Award winners were announced Monday night in Chicago. Local chefs and establishments won several awards, including Emerging Chef for Virtue’s Damarr Brown. Kasama’s Tim Flores and Genie Kwon won in the Great Lakes category for Best Chefs. The city is set to host the awards through 2026. (FOX/BBC)

4. The Field Museum unveiled a new 46-foot dinosaur cast Friday. The “Spinosaurus” dinosaur “lived about 95 million years ago, roaming the rivers of Northern Africa,” according to NPR. (WBEZ)

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Today in Chicago:

• The Old Town School of Folk Music hosts Happy Hour at Gallagher Way. (5 p.m.)
• See a concert at Thalia Hall. (8 p.m.)
• Music Box Theatre offers an outdoor screening of “Wall-E.” (8:30 p.m.)

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From my notebook:

• Loyola Medicine will ship a donated ambulance to Ukraine this week. (WGN)
• Taylor Swift showed a “brilliant knack for making a massive event feel personal, inviting, warm” over the course of three weekend shows at Soldier Field, writes Tribune critic Bob Gendron. (Paid source: Tribune)
• A Malibu Barbie pop-up will open tomorrow in the West Loop ahead of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie release later this summer. (NBC)
• Block Club posted a guide to nearly 100 ice cream treats to try across the city. (Block Club)

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That's all for today! See you tomorrow for more local stories.

— Georgi Presecky

About me: Georgi is a Chicago-based newsletter writer and partner content curator. She spent five years on the entertainment beat for FF2 Media covering film festivals across the U.S. Her feature articles have been recognized with awards from the Illinois Women's Press Association and National Federation of Press Women. As editor-in-chief of the Lewis University newspaper, she and her staff earned honors from the Associated Collegiate Press and American Scholastic Press Associations. She began working for Patch in 2019.

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