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Brandon Johnson commenced his mayoral term with a promise to propel the “soul of Chicago” to its greatest era yet, capping off the former commissioner and longtime labor organizer’s once-improbable rise to be the most progressive leader of the nation’s third-largest city in decades.

Johnson began his sweeping remarks by shouting out the greatness of Chicago: the “beauty” of Lake Michigan, its “boundary-breaking” arts and cultural scene and even the signature Italian beef.

His 100-day agenda includes: doubling youth employment, finalizing a “Treatment Not Trauma” plan to send a nonpolice response to certain mental health crises, and passing “Bring Chicago Home,” a measure to hike the real estate transfer tax on properties above $1 million to fund anti-homelessness initiatives.

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Concluding its run in a location where it always found itself on shaky financial footing, the Museum of Broadcast Communications earlier this month moved out of its home in a four-story River North building after a commercial development firm exercised its right to buy the remainder of the structure.

Museum officials aren’t saying yet where the museum, which is home to the nation’s only Radio Hall of Fame, is headed.

After more than 18 months of creating public art that speaks to climate change, artists from across Chicagoland will launch their projects throughout the city’s parks and neighborhoods beginning June 3 under the banner E(art)H Chicago, or Earth Art Chicago.

The first Black boxing champion was a man named Jack Johnson and a few years before he died in 1946, he told a young reporter, “Just remember, whatever you write about me, that I was a man.”

You will meet this man in all his ferocity, style, audacity and courage in a spectacular new book, a dynamic and unforgettable collaboration between artist Youssef Daoudi and writer Adrian Matejka, writes Rick Kogan.

Texas running backs coach Tashard Choice saw all of the ways Roschon Johnson can affect a team as the senior totaled 93 carries for 554 yards and five touchdowns in 2022 as the backup to Bijan Robinson — the No. 8 pick in the draft.

Choice spoke recently to the Tribune about what type of player and leader Johnson can be for the Bears.

In the city’s history, the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 is perhaps one of its grandest moments — Chicago’s emergence on the world stage as a new metropolis rising from the ashes of a great fire just 22 years prior.

But in recent years, the city’s finest hour has been inextricably intertwined with its first serial killer, the dapper and duplicitous H.H. Holmes, thanks largely to Erik Larson’s wildly popular 2003 novel “The Devil in the White City.”