Also in the news: children made up most of the nine shooting victims in Chicago yesterday. One of them was killed; a ceremony celebrating the best of Chicago’s music scene is set to return this year; seven community improvement projects are getting one-and-a-half million dollars each in Mayor Lightfoot’s competition designed to help put people *in control of their neighborhoods; and much more. 

Other top stories include Mayor Lori Lightfoot having her first press conference after being  in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 and taking about going to a meeting in Washington D.C & activists on the south side are fighting to keep the city from granting a permit for a relocated metal recycling to continue operations 

Also in the news; two Waukegan men...accused of taking part in the armed robbery of a store in Beach Park on Sunday night...are in custody thanks to the help of Lake County Sheriff’s K-9s; a proposed loosening of Indiana's regulations on nursing education programs is advancing in the legislature; a volcanic eruption in the South Pacific island nation of Tonga over the weekend was so powerful that its shock wave caused 'changes in air pressure' here in Chicago; and much more. 

In other news: An overnight shooting in the Little Village neighborhood leaves three people wounded, one seriously; Activists in Chicago call for federal charges against Jason Van Dyke; A woman is charged in the vicious stabbings of two women and a dog in Rogers Park on the North Side last weekend; and much more 

Other top stories include funding to fix bridges across the state and Mayor Lightfoot gets support from a nonprofit to seize street gangs assets