Chicago Public Square returns in full Tuesday.
■ Monday: No edition, to accommodate a Press Forward huddle at the Chicago Community Trust.
■ Around the clock through the weekend—as always, between editions—find breaking news and commentary via the Square account on Bluesky.
■ For now, a highly abbreviated edition:
Stay cool. At the summer solstice, Chicago was bracing for “dangerously hot and humid” weather tomorrow through Monday.
■ The American Prospect: “Climate change will bankrupt the country.”
■ Jimmy Kimmel, bidding his audience adieu ahead of a hiatus through Labor Day: “I’m going to spend the bulk of my summer at the Newark Airport.”
■ Columnist Neil Steinberg: “Once upon a time I looked down on columnists who wrote about the weather. It seemed a failure of imagination. And I can report, on good authority, that is indeed exactly that.”
For today, we gift you our weekly news quiz. This edition’s concocted by The Conversation arts and culture editor Nick Lehr—filling in for past Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions winner Fritz Holznagel, who’s taking a much-needed break to stare at redwoods in Oregon.
■ Are you a Fritz fan? Mark your calendar for Tuesday at 1 p.m. Central, by which point he’ll have pulled himself away from those trees to help present a free webinar: “Using Generative AI: Practical Advice.”
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Weekly Dingus. Columnist Lyz Lenz bestows her dubious achievement award on Utah Sen. Mike Lee.
■ A young man awarded an American flag by Lee in 2016 is sending it back.