Good morning, Chicago.

Beyoncé will bring her global “Renaissance World Tour” to Soldier Field this Saturday and Sunday. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the show is expected to begin at 8 p.m.

Whether you have a front-row seat, or will be listening from the parking lot, here’s everything you need to know about Beyoncé’s eagerly-awaited Chicago Renaissance tour stop.

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The sweet smell of chicken soup filled Ari’s home as she cooked dinner while her husband was at work. Her 2-year-old son was napping, but his toys adorned the living room floor.

Ari, 32, and her family arrived in Chicago from Venezuela last September seeking asylum. She remembers that day and the uncertainty she felt “as if it had been yesterday.”

Now, she said, she’s grateful to have made a home of her own in an apartment in a North Side neighborhood thanks to a rental assistance program that helps asylum-seekers move out of shelters and into permanent housing.

But while many migrant families like Ari’s have received rental assistance and signed leases for housing units around the city, more than 11,000 new arrivals remain in limbo, housed in city and volunteer-run shelters and police stations.

The latest data at least offers a hopeful sign that the increases in violent crime during the pandemic were not the start of a new era of steadily rising crime, as many experts had worried. But the data is limited to the cities in which the council could obtain data, and the authors cautioned that for some categories only a few cities released statistics.

The Will County Board approved plans this week for an oil pipeline and barge terminal to be built on a strip of land between the Des Plaines River and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in unincorporated Will County near Romeoville and Lockport.

The day Northwestern University fired head football coach Pat Fitzgerald in response to the team’s hazing scandal, alums Jim Nugent and Vicki Olivera Nugent immediately decided to cancel their football season tickets and requested a refund in protest.

As the university endures continued fallout from recent football player hazing revelations, some fans are grappling with whether they’ll continue attending football games or ditch their tickets for the upcoming season. The first home game is Sept. 9 against the University of Texas at El Paso, after the season opener Sept. 3 against Rutgers in New Jersey.

In a new job with an NFL team defined by mediocrity for most of this century, Chicago Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren has an urgent mission to reprogram parts of Halas Hall.

At a minimum, many around the NFL expect Warren to infuse the organization with new talent, raise the performance levels of those under him and reduce the franchise’s overall clumsiness.

NHL Productions’ cameras went behind the scenes at last month’s draft in Nashville, Tenn., to follow Connor Bedard, Oliver Moore — taken at No. 19 by the Hawks — and five other picks.

“Welcome to the NHL: Nashville 2023″ premieres at 4 p.m. CDT today on ESPN+ and at 6 p.m. on NHL Network, then later on YouTube and NHL.com.

The fourth floor of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, through Oct. 1, will be a haunted house, a liminal space, a gateway to a past not settled, writes Christopher Borrelli.

That’s one way to describe “Public Enemy,” a sweeping new survey of four decades of absorbing work by Gary Simmons, whose name alone, first heard in the late 1980s, conjures the ghosts of the art world’s past. Indeed, the show itself, with its light touch belying histories of trauma, takes the shape of a ghost. Simmons traffics in ghosts. He paints, sketches, fabricates, smudges, erases, mutes, conceptualizes. But his true medium is ghosts, phantoms of a racial and cultural history that, however faint they may become, never entirely vanish.

Two big live music events in town — Pitchfork Music Festival and Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour at Soldier Field — may be hogging the spotlight this weekend, but there is plenty else going on. A convention for pets, Rudy Francisco and Taste of Lincoln Avenue included.