🎤 New Lollapalooza headliner

Beverly Church Perseveres After Vandalism

Earlier this month, someone vandalized Pride banners and flags adorning the Beverly Unitarian Church. In response to the anti-LGBTQ+ actions and to support the far South Side neighborhood’s queer community, the church is planning another event June 30. [Block Club]

• Plus, more Pride events this month. [City Cast Chicago 🎧]

Lollapalooza Gets a New Headliner

Minutes after rapper Tyler, the Creator posted on X he wouldn’t be performing at this summer’s festival, organizers announced that rapper Megan Thee Stallion will be performing in his place. Is this a welcome “Hot Girl Summer” lineup change? [NBC 5]

• City Cast Chicago podcast host Jacoby Cochran says he’d still see Megan Thee Stallion Aug. 1. Who do you think has the best music fest lineup? [City Cast Chicago 🎧]

What Will Reparations Task Force Do?

Mayor Brandon Johnson is establishing a reparations task force that would address systemic inequities that have disenfranchised Black Chicagoans. [City Cast Chicago 🎧]

This Week’s Must-Read

In this powerful interactive audio slideshow, meet a group of Venezuelan migrants en route to the U.S., as they share the difficulties of their journey and why they have no choice but to leave their homes. [Sun-Times/WBEZ]

It’s news quiz o’clock! Check out past Hey Chicago newsletters and City Cast Chicago podcasts for help. Here’s our first question:

While Chicagoans try to stay cool this week, next month marks almost 30 years since the city’s deathly 1995 heat wave. What was the highest temperature recorded then?

• 98°
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Reparations in Chicago, County Jail’s Deadly Year, and Chief Keef Returns

The Triibe’s Tonia Hill and Injustice Watch’s Carlos Ballesteros talk about the mayor's reparations task force, Cook County jail's deadliest year in a decade, and Chief Keef’s return to Chicagoland.