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After beating eight other candidates to become Chicago’s next mayor, buoyed by more than $2 million in support from the Chicago Teachers Union, Brandon Johnson will take the helm of Chicago Public Schools with his inauguration May 15 — embarking on a four-year term that will see Illinois’ largest school district profoundly changed.

With the district’s impending transition to an elected school board and financial disentanglement with the city, certain shifts to come have long been in motion. Others may stem from a schools plan like no other candidate’s, in which Johnson — a CPS parent and recent CTU organizer — advocated for a break from business as usual in CPS’ testing of students, funding of schools and social services to be provided to students.

In the face of declining enrollment, a looming deficit topping $600 million and the challenge of wrestling more money from the state, Johnson faces a number of uphill battles. But the policies he proposed while campaigning aren’t nonstarters, according to experts who spoke with the Tribune on the potential pathways and pitfalls for the mayor-elect’s plan for schools.

Read the full story from the Tribune’s Sarah Macaraeg.

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Fed up with repeated mass shootings, hundreds of people from the Chicago area took part in a march in Washington, D.C., Monday to call for a federal ban on assault guns.

Among them was Lindsey Hartman, who survived the Fourth of July mass shooting during a parade in her hometown of Highland Park last year. She and her husband threw themselves on top of their 4-year-old daughter to protect her, as people next to them were shot and killed.

Barrington High School was evacuated Monday afternoon after receiving a “computerized bomb threat,” then additional bomb threats shortly thereafter, with police summing up the incident as the latest school to be enveloped by a recent trend of swatting events.

Say pierogi and most people need no explanation: fried or boiled, these filled dumplings are nearly as integral to Chicago’s local cuisine as deep-dish pizza and giardiniera.

Maybe you’ve also tried other Polish classics such as gołabki (stuffed cabbage) or makowiec cake (poppy seed roll). Every cuisine is a reflection of geopolitical history, and in Poland’s case, quite a bit of culinary inspiration can be traced to Turkey and Central Asia.

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There are some actors who, whenever they show up on screen, you think: OK, now we’re cooking. That would apply to Michaela Watkins, who has been a reliable comedic presence on everything from “Saturday Night Live” to her roles in “Enlightened,” “Trophy Wife,” “New Girl,” “Casual,” “Search Party,” “The Unicorn” and more.

When it comes to a worst career moment, Watkins has a doozy.