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Annie Shea Wheeler was set to graduate from Columbia College when a walk home from the Blue Line in Wicker Park changed everything.

Chunks of concrete, some the size of couch cushions, fell from a building and smashed her skull.

"It feels like my whole life did a somersault," she told reporters Monday in her first interview since the April 6 accident.

Chicago College Student's Life Has 'Done A Somersault' Since Traumatic Injury

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  • Keep your mask on while riding CTA and Metra. Chicago-area transit officials said the current mask mandates will remain in place despite a Florida judge's ruling that voided national mask mandates on public transportation. (NBC5)
  • The former Chicago cop convicted of murdering 17-year-old Laquan McDonald will not face federal charges. U.S. Attorney John Lausch said Laquan's family agreed with the government's decision to not pursue a second trial against Jason Van Dyke, who was released from prison in February. (Patch)
  • Two police officers and three other people were injured in a crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 31st Street. A driver involved in the crash was arrested for drunken driving. (Patch)
  • Ald. Pat Dowell doesn't want a casino built in her ward. Dowell, who is running to replace U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, says Hard Rock Casino's plan would be a neighborhood disruption in the South Loop. (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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