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For the second time in four days, severe thunderstorms swept through parts of Chicago and suburban Cicero on Wednesday, dumping another 1 to 2 inches of rainfall on neighborhoods still trying to recover from Sunday’s downpour.

According to the Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications, the city’s 311 service received more than 2,800 complaints related to basement, street and viaduct flooding throughout the day Wednesday and as of 11 a.m. Thursday. Nearly 2,100 of those were service requests related to water in the basement.

Some pockets of the metro area saw up to 3 inches of rain, said National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Kluber. But for those unfortunate enough to have gotten caught outside, it likely looked similar to the 3 to 7 inches of rain that hit the city and suburbs over the weekend because the soil is still waterlogged.

Read the full story from the Tribune’s Adriana Pérez and Laura Rodríguez Presa.

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As a warming Earth simmered into worrisome new territory this week, scientists said the unofficial records being set for average planetary temperature were a clear sign of how pollutants released by humans are warming their environment. But the heat is also just one way the planet is telling us something is gravely wrong, they said.

The Police Department said the allegations concern an officer or officers assigned to the Ogden District, which covers the Little Village and Lawndale neighborhoods on the West Side.

Few details were available late Thursday about the scope of the investigation. Also a focus was whether some of the migrants allegedly involved in the matter were minors, sources with knowledge of the internal review said.

Judge Edmond Chang approved a joint motion brought by Democratic Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough and attorney Michael Shakman, who first filed a lawsuit challenging the widespread use of patronage in 1969 during the era of Mayor Richard J. Daley, who perfected the Chicago machine.

About 15 days before she was killed, Karina Gonzalez obtained an order of protection against her husband, prosecutors said. A judge had ordered that she should have exclusive access to their Little Village home and care for their children. The judge also banned her husband, Jose Alvarez from the property and from making contact with Gonzalez, the order obtained by the Tribune shows.

But Alvarez never received the order.

Chicago’s life sciences industry is about to get another much-needed shot in the arm. The University of Chicago signed a partnership agreement with CIC, a Massachusetts-based operator of shared workspaces and labs, to incubate dozens of faculty-led startup companies within the university’s leased space in Hyde Park Labs, a flagship science building under construction at the corner of 52nd Street and Harper Avenue.

The 2023 MLB draft begins Sunday at Lumen Field in Seattle, and the White Sox and Cubs each will select 20 new prospects. Both teams have mid-first-round picks and will select from a draft class heavy on college talent. Slot bonuses for those early picks are now in the millions. Here’s what to know.

The Bulls will play four games to open the tournament, beginning today. If they post a strong enough record, they will be seeded in the semifinals to compete for the summer league title. The 26 teams that don’t make the semifinals will play a fifth game on July 15 or 16.

Barely two months have passed since Chicago audiences saw “Other People’s Children,” starring the busy and reliably excellent Virginie Efira. Her instincts locate the tenderness in both drama and light comedy — often in the same instant. That French export, a good one, was distributed stateside by Chicago’s Music Box Films.

Now, Music Box is circulating another recent pickup starring Efira. “Revoir Paris,” which translates as “Paris Memories,” finds Efira working as thoughtfully and effectively as ever, writes film critic Michael Phillips. The film itself is frustrating, however.

Live music is always playing in Chicago in the summer and this weekend is no exception. Or take a trip out to Glen Ellyn to see “Warhol.”