WEATHER: The Monday evening @accuweather  forecast: • Mainly clear tonight. • Beautiful Tuesday and Wednesday with sunshine and patchy clouds. Humidity will remain low. • Heat returns Thursday and Friday.

A veteran school administrator will oversee the Chicago Public Schools system as the search continues for a permanent CEO, @ssmiller  reports.

Juneteenth -- which celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S. -- will be a paid city holiday beginning in 2022, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced.

The FBI is seeking information after a kidnapping was observed by witnesses early today in the north central Illinois community of Peru.

Chicago politics have collided with @StephenKing  (via Stanley Kubrick), @ssmiller  reports.

Aurora's police chief announces her retirement later this summer.

A 28-year-old Portage, Indiana man drowned over the weekend in Lake Michigan after he helped a woman to safety.

As Illinois fully reopened, police had their hands full at a north suburban amusement park.

A west suburban nurse is helping to organize a fundraiser to buy cameras that can help parents monitor newborns at the hospital, @KHQARachel  reports.