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• The city and CPD will lease out the 4 parking garages under Grant and Millennium Parks for 99 years for $563 million. Sounds like a lot, but they'll only net $157 million, making it a less lucrative deal than the Skyway deal.
• A new Metra station is planned to go right by US Cellular Field.
• Chicago's hot (literally) neighborhoods.
• In regional news: UW put its marching band on probation for hazing and rowdiness involving liquor and sex, and a nun in Indiana became a saint.

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