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* Sun-Times | Illinois Supreme Court to rule today on whether Illinois will become first state in nation to abolish cash bail: The Illinois Supreme Court is expected to rule Tuesday on a controversial provision of the landmark SAFE-T Act that would make Illinois the first state in the nation to abolish cash bail. The ruling, expected to be handed down at 9 a.m., comes six months after the justices halted the Pretrial Fairness Act from going into effect on Jan. 1.

* Crain’s | 2 of ‘ComEd Four’ lose ability to practice law in Illinois: report: Pramaggiore had argued against suspension of her license while her appeal is ongoing, WBEZ reported last week. McClain did not attempt to contest the Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission’s motion to suspend his law license, according to WBEZ.

* Injustice Watch | Cook County’s former top public defender ‘misused confidential information,’ report says: The Cook County inspector general accused former public defender Amy Campanelli of inappropriately sharing data on her office’s youth clients to benefit a nonprofit organization where she later took a job.

* USA Today | Eight former Northwestern players retain lawyer for possible hazing lawsuit: Crump and his co-counsel, Steven M. Levin, are “in conversations with many others,” they said Monday, adding that future legal action is “expected to expand beyond Northwestern’s football program and will expose extreme and abusive hazing in other college athletic programs as well.”

* Crain’s | Doug Scott, an architect of Illinois’ climate policy, takes gavel of ICC: Scott is the new chair of the Illinois Commerce Commission – the agency that oversees utilities and companies in other regulated industries in Illinois. He officially stepped into the role on June 20 after Gov. JB Pritzker announced his plan to replace outgoing chair Carrie Zalewski in March.

* Sun-Times | A day with Chicago migrants and the people trying to help them: Nearly a year after the first busload of migrants arrived, Chicago still lacks an infrastructure to house, feed and care for the more than 11,000 asylum-seekers who have found themselves in the city.

* Tribune | Moving migrants from police stations is ‘top priority,’ Mayor Johnson says on tour of new welcome center at Clemente high school: Johnson was joined by CPS CEO Pedro Martinez and other city officials inside Roberto Clemente Community Academy, where a new center dedicated to assisting young migrants in the West Town community area will debut this week, funded through CPS’ regular operating budget. The new resource hub — designed to help youth enroll in school, as well as connect with medical care, temporary housing and other social services — was pitched as a pilot program that the mayor’s administration hopes to replicate citywide.

* Crain’s | For would-be pot retailers, the lottery was the easy part: Now comes the hard part. Rasheed and the other applicants chosen in the lottery will have to prove they meet the criteria for the pot-shop licenses. They’ll also have to pull together business and operational plans, find real estate — and come up with the estimated $500,000 to $1 million or more that it could take to pay for it all.

* WGN | Few answers one month after suburban mass shooting: It’s now been one month since gunfire abruptly ended a Juneteenth gathering in unincorporated Willowbrook. Twenty-three people were shot and one person killed. No one has been charged and the lack of information from police since then is unsettling to those who were there.

* WBEZ | The link between climate change and Chicago’s bad air quality: he Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has designated Monday, Jul. 17 as another Air Pollution Action Day because of smoke from Canadian wildfires. Bad air quality has affected our region repeatedly this summer and it’s one of the many ways the impact of climate change can be felt locally. Elisabeth Moyer is an associate professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago.

* Sun-Times | New life for stalled renovation of landmark Congress Theater: The City Council’s Finance Committee extended the life of the tax increment financing district until Dec. 31, 2027, and gave the development team tackling the project a $27 million city subsidy.

* Play Illinois | No Cheap Trick: Hard Rock Rockford To Honor Hometown Music Heroes: Hard Rock Rockford is embracing the fact that Rockford is the hometown of famed rock band Cheap Trick. So much so, that a 90-foot tall guitar at the entrance to the casino is a replica of Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen’s famed Hamer standardbred checkerboard guitar.

* Sun-Times | Barack Obama, in TikTok starring Kankakee Public Library staffers, launches drive against book bans: Obama on Monday in an “open letter” to librarians wrote, “Today, some of the books that shaped my life — and the lives of so many others — are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives. It’s no coincidence that these “banned books” are often written by or feature people of color, indigenous people, and members of the LGBTQ+ community — though there have also been unfortunate instances in which books by conservative authors or books containing “triggering” words or scenes have been targets for removal.

* Tribune | Which Chicago White Sox pitchers could be on the move by the trade deadline? Taking a look at the possibilities.: The Sox, who begin a three-game series Tuesday against the New York Mets at Citi Field, are 15 games under .500 at 40-55. They are in fourth place in the American League Central, 8 1/2 games behind the division-leading Minnesota Twins.

* Sun-Times | ‘Cartel wife’ of Chicago cocaine kingpin gets 3.5 years for hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars from feds: Vivianna Lopez made an emotional plea for mercy, telling the judge she feared for the lives of her children after Pedro Flores and his brother, Margarito, famously turned against the Sinaloa cartel and helped bring down Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera.

* ABC Chicago | Emergency slide falls from United plane, lands in backyard near O’Hare Airport: Chicago police: Chicago police said it happened in the 4700 block of North Chester Avenue on the city’s Northwest Side. No one was injured. Patrick Devitt, the homeowner who made the discovery, said he dragged the slide, which fell from a United 767, from his backyard to the front.