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Monday's City Council meeting felt like 1983 all over again.

A former journalist turned ward boss who was groomed by former House Speaker Michael Madigan's political machine has taken the lead advocating for legislative checks and balances on a Chicago mayor with the support of indicted Ald. Ed Burke — one of the "Council Wars" masterminds who undermined the late Mayor Harold Washington's administration.

Could that be why Trump-loving Fraternal Order of Police boss John Catanzara has amped up his political rhetoric to include the threat to challenge the re-election of any alderman who sides with Mayor Lori Lightfoot on the city's vaccine mandate?

KONKOL COLUMN: Chicago Police Union Gets Hand From Madigan-Machine Ward Boss

Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Sun's back! High: 55 Low: 45.

  • Bears fans wanted rookie Justin Fields as the team's starting quarterback. Now, they've got to deal with the "stuff" — fumbles, interceptions and losing — that comes with it, Patch's Jeff Arnold writes. (Patch)
  • A victim of notorious serial killer clown, John Wayne Gacy, was identified 43 years after his murder thanks to genetic genealogy. Authorities identified the body of a man buried under the remains of another Gacy victim as Francis Wayne Alexander, a North Carolina man who moved to Chicago in 1975. (Patch)
  • A signed pair of Michael Jordan's size 13 Nike "Air Ship" sneakers that he wore during his fifth NBA game sold for $1.5 million at a Las Vegas auction. The record-breaking sale price was the first time anyone paid more than a million bucks for a pair of sneakers at an auction. (Patch)
  • Exposure to police may cause anxiety and depression in Black youth, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Even just driving past [the police], you get a feeling of anxiousness and not knowing what's going to happen," a Dyett High School student said. (WBEZ)
  • How did the "the finest Rhum experience in the city" survive the pandemic in Hyde Park? Racquel Fields, owner of 14 Parish Restaurant and Rhum Bar, says "the Black community pushed the world to see us, embrace the black culture and promote black businesses." (Chicago Defender)

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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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