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  "textContent": "<p><i>Good afternoon! It’s Monday, and May the Fourth be with you. This is </i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1419300803574321&set=pcb.1419300836907651\" target=\"_blank\" ><i><u>how my cats would react</u></i></a><i> if I made them wear “Star Wars” costumes. Here’s what you need to know today.</i></p><p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.wbez.org/criminal-justice/2026/05/02/swedish-hospital-police-shooting-highlights-critical-security-fail-points-chicago\" target=\"_blank\" ><b><u>1. The Swedish Hospital police shooting highlights critical security fail points</u></b></a></p><p>In a shooting at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital that killed a Chicago police officer and left another gravely wounded, the presence of a gun on a patient exposes the potential security fail points when a detainee arrives for treatment, my colleagues Kade Heather and Elvia Malagón write.</p><p>The shooting was the second at an Endeavor Health hospital in the Chicago area in less than a year. In last week’s incident, prosecutors accuse Alphanso Talley of using the same 10 mm handgun from a dollar store robbery that morning to kill Chicago Police Officer John Bartholomew and wound his partner.</p><p>Chicago Police Department policy laid out at least two searches in this scenario: after Talley’s initial arrest and before Talley was transported to the hospital. Officers — not the ones who were shot — searched Talley after his arrest and found stolen cash in his pockets but no gun, according to prosecutors, who said Talley “had been concealing [the gun] from the moment he was arrested.”</p><p>It remains unclear if anyone, either Chicago officers or hospital security, patted Talley down again once he was at the hospital. However, security experts say a wand used correctly should have picked up the gun, even if it was concealed on the body.</p><p>CPD policy allows officers to conduct a strip search, meaning an arrestee removes some or all of their clothing, in cases involving a firearm or drugs and when there is “reasonable belief” they are concealing a firearm or drugs. It’s unclear what type of search officers conducted after Talley’s initial arrest. A Chicago police spokesperson declined an interview request, saying the “entire incident” is under investigation. [<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.wbez.org/criminal-justice/2026/05/02/swedish-hospital-police-shooting-highlights-critical-security-fail-points-chicago\" target=\"_blank\" ><u>Chicago Sun-Times</u></a>]</p><p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2026/05/04/chicago-launches-e-scooter-safety-campaign-in-wake-of-recent-scooter-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" ><b><u>2. Chicago launched an e-scooter safety campaign in the wake of recent scooter deaths</u></b></a></p><p>The campaign, spearheaded by Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Department of Transportation, aims to improve rider behavior, reduce sidewalk riding and strengthen parking compliance ahead of peak riding season.</p><p>It includes new rider safety messaging across the city, expanded scooter parking and bike infrastructure, and stronger compliance requirements for operators and riders that will include stronger parking standards and expanded sidewalk riding detection technology.</p><p>So far, more than 1 million Lime and Divvy e-scooter trips have been taken throughout Chicago in 2026, city officials said. Last year, more than 7 million trips were taken — a record in e-scooter usage for the city.</p><p>At least two trips taken on e-scooters have ended tragically this year. Seventeen-year-old Astrid Alexandra Carrillo Noguera and 15-year-old Violet Harris were killed after being hit by vehicles while riding e-scooters roughly a month apart on the South Side earlier this spring. [<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2026/05/04/chicago-launches-e-scooter-safety-campaign-in-wake-of-recent-scooter-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" ><u>Chicago Sun-Times</u></a>]</p><p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/2026/04/30/demolition-gradual-demise-lincolnwood-town-center'\" target=\"_blank\" ><b><u>3. Demolition and gradual demise are in store for Lincolnwood Town Center</u></b></a></p><p>The 36-year-old plaza just outside Chicago’s northern boundary has been on a downward slide for years, with ever-rising store vacancies. It’s expected to close in a few months as a developer — with the village of Lincolnwood’s blessing — pursues a new plan for the tract at 3333 W. Touhy Ave.</p><p>Lincolnwood officials told the Chicago Sun-Times operations will wind down over several months. Smaller stores still in the mall will have to close soon, but questions remain about the future of Kohl’s, the mall’s biggest draw and last department store.</p><p>Lincolnwood Town Center sits on property once belonging to the Bell & Howell projector company. Original anchors were Carson Pirie Scott and Madigan’s, a local department store that closed there just a year later. The center, an investment of mall kingpin Melvin Simon, once had 90 stores and restaurants and pitched itself at a middle-income crowd.</p><p>Carson’s lasted until 2018. Like other malls throughout the Chicago area, Lincolnwood’s has been overrun by the Amazon ecosystem and the spread of bare-bones apparel stores with quick inventory turnover, such as Marshalls and Ross Dress for Less. [<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/2026/04/30/demolition-gradual-demise-lincolnwood-town-center\" target=\"_blank\" ><u>Chicago Sun-Times</u></a>]</p><p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2026/05/02/illinois-opioid-settlement-purdue-pharma-kwame-raoul\" target=\"_blank\" ><b><u>4. Illinois is in line for a $148.8M opioid settlement payout from Purdue Pharma</u></b></a></p><p>As my colleague Mitchell Armentrout reports, the amount is part of a nationwide $7.4 billion settlement agreement that took effect Friday, marking the state’s latest payout from companies that systematically addicted generations of Americans to opioids.</p><p>The money will be doled out over the next 15 years, mostly in the next three, under the deal reached last spring by a coalition of state attorneys general, including Illinois’ Kwame Raoul. Settlement funds are dedicated to addiction treatment, prevention and recovery programs.</p><p>Overdoses spiked in Cook County during the COVID-19 pandemic to a staggering high of 2,001 deaths in 2022, with 91% of those cases tied to fentanyl. Fatal opioid overdoses have declined since then, with 1,822 deaths countywide in 2023, 1,169 in 2024 and 687 last year, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. [<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2026/05/02/illinois-opioid-settlement-purdue-pharma-kwame-raoul\" target=\"_blank\" ><u>Chicago Sun-Times</u></a>]</p><p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.wbez.org/music/2026/05/04/aadam-jacobs-online-archive-tapes-concerts\" target=\"_blank\" ><b><u>5. A volunteer project is turning a Chicagoan’s collection of live recordings into an online archive that can play on forever</u></b></a></p><p>Starting in 1984 and up until recently, Aadam Jacobs brought tape recorders to thousands of indie, rock and punk shows, capturing full audio sets of everyone from R.E.M. at the UIC Pavilion in 1986 to Nirvana (twice) in 1989.</p><p>“I began doing it after learning that I could sneak a tape recorder into concerts from a friend of mine. I was 17 at the time and I’d only just gone to concerts or listened to them on the radio,” he recalled. “And it snowballed. At first, it was just a teenage kid who just loved to go to shows, but then it felt like my job to capture everything that was important to me. It was an obsession.”</p><p>Jacobs’ collection — which up until recently was largely stored in his Hermosa basement — has naturally been a point of curiosity for music fans, especially after the release of a 2023 documentary on Jacobs, called “Melomaniac,” from producers Charles Cotterman and Katlin Schneider. Word trickled into the “tapers” community, and soon Jacobs had offers to help digitize the collection for posterity’s sake. With a good chunk of those files now online at the Internet Archive and accessible for free, interest has been soaring with the project in the news again.</p><p>Currently, there are 2,500 shows available online with roughly 10 new ones added daily. Upcoming entries include James Brown, George Clinton, Jane’s Addiction, Built To Spill, Broken Social Scene and “a lot of emo.” [<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.wbez.org/music/2026/05/04/aadam-jacobs-online-archive-tapes-concerts\" target=\"_blank\" ><u>Chicago Sun-Times</u></a>]</p><p><b>Here’s what else is happening</b></p><ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;\" id=\"rte-1a3178a6-47f7-11f1-b032-531e69f64fca\"><li>The U.S. Supreme Court gave the abortion pill mifepristone a one-week reprieve from new regulations saying the drug cannot be prescribed via telehealth or sent through the mail. [<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/05/04/nx-s1-5810510/supreme-court-mifepristone-appeals-telehealth\" target=\"_blank\" ><u>NPR</u></a>]</li><li>President Donald Trump’s political retribution powers will be tested in this week’s Indiana primary. [<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/05/04/nx-s1-5788979/trump-indiana-primary-redistricting-retribution-midterm-election\" target=\"_blank\" ><u>NPR</u></a>]</li><li>Here are the winners of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes. [<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/books/pulitzer-prizes-books-winners-finalists.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f1A.WvL0.hW0eqEy-PJMO&smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" ><u>New York Times</u></a>]</li><li>This year’s Met Gala takes place tonight with a “Fashion is Art” theme. [<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/live/met-gala-2026-fashion-celebrities\" target=\"_blank\" ><u>AP</u></a>]</li></ul><p><b>Oh, and one more thing …</b></p><p>Biking is slow enough to expose riders to things they would miss by car but covers enough ground to keep the adventure from stalling, WBEZ contributor Elaine Glusac writes.</p><p>The birthplace of the rails-to-trails movement, the Midwest offers numerous diverting trails. Built on abandoned railways largely using crushed stone, these routes tend to be flat, attracting both recreationalists — riding gravel, mountain or hybrid rather than road bikes — and those fit enough to do 100-mile “century” spins.</p><p>For cyclists seeking breakaways to rural areas and small towns linked by scenic cycling routes, here are five destinations cyclists can take their bikes for a weekend of memorable rides in the Midwest. [<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.wbez.org/travel/2026/05/02/bicycling-midwest-bikes-rails-trails-conservancy-illinois-prairie-path-northwestern-university-lakefill-elroy-sparta-wisconsin\" target=\"_blank\" ><u>WBEZ</u></a>]</p><p><b>Tell me something good …</b></p><p>A lot of changes are coming to Chicago-area malls, from Lincolnwood Town Center’s imminent closure to Water Tower Place’s upcoming revamp. So I’m wondering, what are your favorite mall memories?</p><p>Feel free to email me, and your response may be included in the newsletter this week.</p>",
  "title": "Security at Chicago-area hospitals: The Rundown",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-04T20:45:01.998Z"
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