City Cast Chicago
🍴 Eat your way through ‘The Bear’
June 27, 2024 · —Sidney Madden
Where are my friends with green thumbs? You have until Sunday to enter your garden in a citywide competition. If you’re wondering what to expect, I spoke to the organizer last year 🌱
What's CITY Talking About?
SCOTUS Decision Could Affect Local Corruption Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a federal bribery case and found that state and local officials shouldn’t be criminalized for accepting after-the-fact “gratuities.” The ramifications of the decision could result in another trial delay for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and a new trial in the ComEd bribery case. [WBEZ, Sun-Times]
- Brush up on the messy details about the case that came out of Northwest Indiana. [Hey Chicago 💻]
Highland Park Shooter Rejects Plea Deal
Nearly two years after the fatal Highland Park Fourth of July parade, Robert Crimo III rejected a lifelong sentence for the mass shooting. His trial is scheduled for February 2025. [WTTW]
Snag Corporate Erin’s Bestseller
If you’ve been on TikTok, you might have come across Erin Throlopolis, aka Corporate Erin, aka Chicago comedian Lisa Beasley. Now, Beasley is out with a new book, “Circle Back, Follow Up, Close The Loop: A Corporate Dictionary.” [City Cast Chicago 🎧]
What To Do
Thursday, June 27
- Archery 🏹 Palos Park | 4–6 p.m. | Free
- Pride Party 🌈 Lincoln Park Zoo | 6:30–10 p.m. | $25
- Rolling Stones 🎸 Soldier Field | 8 p.m. | $122+
Today on City Cast
The One About ‘The Bear’
City Cast Chicago podcast host Jacoby Cochran and contributor Greta Johnsen discuss the new season of “The Bear,” the Sundance films in Chicago this weekend, and summer reads.
Is Chip City better than Crumbl? I’m about to find out after City Cast marketing coordinator Mariah McBride let me know there is a new location 🍪
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