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Chicago beaches will be open every day with lifeguards through Labor Day. Visitors scattered across North Avenue Beach on Friday, lounging on towels and playing in the water.
The buzzing coming from the cicadas is expected to get louder as more insects emerge from the ground.
A man, 43, was shot in the neck about 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the 5000 block of North Winthrop Avenue. He is hospitalized in critical condition. The other man, 40, was grazed in the head and declined medical attention.
Illinois mistakenly overspent its latest round of funding and will run out of money for hundreds of programs that serve about 15,000 kids in Chicago. The programs' advocates encourage state lawmakers to intervene.