Good afternoon! There’s a chance of some rain this weekend. But what caught my eye is an expected high of 79 degrees on Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know today.

1. Chicago Police won’t discipline nine officers who signed up for an extremist group linked to the Jan. 6 insurrection

Leaders at the Chicago Police Department have decided not to punish any officers whose names appeared on the leaked membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that played a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, my colleagues Dan Mihalopoulos and Tom Schuba report.

“The investigation is closed and the allegations were not sustained,” a spokeswoman for the CPD said in a statement, declining to provide any documents from the internal probe.

That brief statement stands in stark contrast to Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling’s zero-tolerance vow to the City Council in October, after WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times revealed the misconduct records of the cops with ties to the Oath Keepers.

The top cop’s comments echoed the campaign promises last year of his boss — first-term Mayor Brandon Johnson, who promised to fire officers with clear ties to extremist groups. [Chicago Sun-Times]

Snelling today defended the decision not to discipline any of the officers. [WBEZ]

2. The ACLU says Chicago may be unprepared for protests during the Democratic National Convention

The civil liberties group says city officials have been so vague about its security plan for the DNC that it may be unprepared for protesters this August, my colleague David Struett reports.

“Despite suggestions by some Chicago officials that the city is prepared for the Democratic National Convention, we are here today because they are not,” Ed Yohnka, spokesman for the ACLU of Illinois, told reporters this week.

“Sadly, the city has not created a clear, transparent plan for welcoming those who want to come to demonstrate and express themselves on the issues of our day.”

So far, the city has denied nearly every protest application from other groups that applied to march during the convention, which will be held from Aug. 19-22.

The city offered them an alternative route through Grant Park, but the activists say that’s too far from their target audience of delegates and reporters who will be converging on the United Center and McCormick Place. [Chicago Sun-Times]

3. A bank card was crucial to tracking down a man wanted in the killing Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca

The suspect, Xavier Tate, used a relative’s card in a store not long before Huesca was gunned down, Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said today shortly before Tate was to make his first court appearance on first-degree murder charges.

Video taken from the store where the card was used helped link Tate to the shooting, he said.

A water bottle bought from the store was found at Huesca’s SUV, which was abandoned blocks from the shooting. Also found were clothing he had worn then.

“Tate’s DNA was on the evidence,” the superintendent said.

Investigators approached the relative and it became “clear” that Tate was involved, according to Chief of Detectives Antoinette Ursitti. [Chicago Sun-Times]

4. Chicago’s Pride Parade faces more cuts by the city

The parade’s route will be shortened as city officials downsize the number of participants, Jake Wittich at the Windy City Times reports.

During a closed door planning meeting this week, city officials said the parade will not begin at its typical starting point in the Uptown neighborhood, Wittich reports. Instead, the starting point will be moved to the intersection of Sheridan and Broadway in Lake View.

Jin-Soo Huh, chair of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Advisory Council on LGBTQ+ Issues, said city officials have been making decisions about this summer’s parade without input from the council.

“Now they’re cutting the route, and this is another decision that’s being made without our input,” Huh said. “It started with the number of floats and the time of the parade, but now they’re shortening the entire route.” [Windy City Times]

Meanwhile, more than 1,200 people have signed a petition to stop a Florida-based male strip club from opening at the shuttered LGBTQ+ bar’s location. [Chicago Sun-Times]

5. ‘The Bear’ uses codenames while filming in Chicago. But what does ‘Kubelik’ mean?

Bright pink filming notices popped up on street lamps and apartment buildings in the city earlier this year for a project called “Kubelik.” It didn’t take long for observers to figure out it was a code name for the hugely popular FX kitchen drama The Bear.

The show appears to have dropped Kubelik and is instead now moonlighting as “Windy City Law.”

But at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Kubelík lives on, my colleague Courtney Kueppers reports.

“Rafael Kubelík had two bouts of fame in Chicago,” Kueppers writes.

“The first was as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s fifth music director, leading the orchestra from 1950-1953. The scrappy young conductor arrived in town charged with reimagining an institution in need of a new identity.” [WBEZ]

Here’s what else is happening

• Hiring slowed down in the U.S. last month, but layoffs remained low. [AP]

• Campus protests over the war in Gaza have gone international. [NPR]

• Sales of Apple products have fallen across the globe. [BBC]

• A chef shares his favorite dish ideas for … cicadas. [NPR]

Oh, and one more thing …

Jerry Seinfeld’s Netflix movie Unfrosted is “an astonishingly unfunny, deeply weird, live-action cartoon that is so clear-the-room dreadful it almost plays like a horror movie,” entertainment columnist Richard Roeper writes.

As you can probably guess, Roeper gave the movie one star, calling it “one of the decade’s worst movies.”

Unfrosted is a comedy about the rivalry between cereal companies Kellogg’s and Post and the “the real story” of the birth of the Pop-Tart.

“I’m surprised that director/co-writer/producer/star Seinfeld, one of the sharpest and most observant comedic minds of his generation, didn’t halt production halfway through, call time of death and apologize to everyone for wasting their time,” Roeper writes. [Chicago Sun-Times]

Tell me something good …

What Chicago-area festivals or events are you looking forward to this summer?

Michelle Melin-Rogovin writes:

“Garage Galleries in Forest Park is hands down the best day of the year! The village hosts nearly 100 artists in a walkable setting, and visitors come from miles around to browse mini art galleries. Neighbors have spent weeks spiffing up their garages to make gritty or boho gallery settings for the afternoon with snacks and beverages! You can buy one-of-a-kind art and gifts and enjoy the day — I never miss it!”

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