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“As much as it sucks to get married in the middle of a cicada awakening, it is definitely memorable,” said Bree Aguilar, who had an outdoor ceremony earlier this month.
That makes nine schools renamed since a Chicago Sun-Times investigation found 30 schools were named for slaveholders, and schools named after white people — mostly men — vastly outnumbered those named for African Americans, Latinos and indigenous people.
Everything at the business — Commercial Pallet, 2029 W. Hubbard St., including inventory, machinery, equipment, vehicles — was 'a total loss,' in the fire, the owner's daughter said. Fire crews were rotated in and out to protect them from heat exhaustion.
Families turned out on the first day that Chicago Park District pools opened. Others had a splash at the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park. The city could reach 90 degrees for seven straight days, with very little cool down overnight.