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State Rep. Kam Buckner wants to move on from his 2nd DUI conviction as he contemplates running for Chicago Mayor.

KONKOL COLUMN: After 2nd DUI, Time For Rep. Buckner To Move On From Mayoral Ambitions

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• Willie Wilson made it official. He's running for Chicago mayor, hoping a third try is the charm. (Patch)
• It's Opening Day at Sox Park, and Sox fans have reason to cheer. Hall of Famer, Harold Baines will be at his first home opener since having a life-saving heart and kidney transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Scott Merkin reports. (MLB.com)
• North Side neighbors who live along the Chicago River are demanding somebody remove the partially sunken boat that has been lodged on the bank since September. No one is in a rush to help. "It sort of feels like it’s going to be a pothole in the road that just never gets fixed," Eric Gosh said. (FOX32)
• After months of negotiations, workers at El Milagro tortilla factory won $1.3 million in wage increases— a pay raise that would have taken employees five years to earn under former conditions, Aimee Levitt reports. (Eater)

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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."