Hey there! It’s Thursday, and kiss the sun goodbye, because it looks like it’s taking a weeklong summer break. As ABBA says, “Hasta mañana ’til we meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when.” Here’s what you need to know today.

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1. Supporters of renaming Lake Shore Drive back a compromise after City Council fiasco

Proponents of renaming Lake Shore Drive are now throwing their support behind a compromise that would change the name of Chicago’s most iconic road to Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive. So long LSD, hello JBPDLSD?

But supporters say they’ll only back the hybrid name change if the City Council takes a vote on the issue at tomorrow’s meeting.

The council was expected to take up the issue yesterday. But chaos erupted and the meeting was cut short after aldermen delayed a vote over Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s nomination of Celia Meza to lead the city’s Law Department. Meza is under fire for trying to dismiss a lawsuit from social worker Anjanette Young, who was left standing naked in front of police officers during a botched raid. [Chicago Sun-Times]

Yesterday’s fiasco comes amid a heated debate between progressive aldermen and Mayor Lori Lightfoot over reforming the Police Department and traditional policing.

This week, a coalition of activists and aldermen opened a new front in this fight by unveiling a plan that would use $1.8 billion in federal stimulus funds on social services, like mental health clinics, and not on the Police Department.

But it’s unclear how much support the plan will attract as Chicago confronts a surge in gun violence. President Joe Biden this week announced Chicago and other cities can tap into more federal funds to help support their police departments. [WBEZ]

2. What the bipartisan deal on Biden’s infrastructure plan means for the nation

President Biden and a bipartisan group of senators today announced they reached a deal on an infrastructure package, a critical piece of Biden’s economic agenda.

The compromise would provide about $559 billion for roads, bridges, broadband internet and other projects. Many details still need to be laid out, but the plan is not expected to be funded by hiking the gasoline tax or raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

But the deal leaves out many priorities Biden wanted to address, such as investments in child care, tax credits for families and much of his climate change agenda. Democrats are now hoping to tackle those issues separately. [NPR]

3. The life expectancy of Americans took its biggest hit since World War II

The life expectancy dropped from about 79 years to 77 years between 2018 and 2020, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal.

“We have not seen a decrease like this since World War II. It’s a horrific decrease in life expectancy,” said Steven Woolf of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and an author of the study.

Black and Hispanic Americans each saw even greater drops of 3.3 years and 3.9 years, respectively.

The life expectancy in the U.S. had been slowly dropping even before the pandemic, NPR reports, and the downward trend is unlikely to reverse entirely. [NPR]

4. Pelosi says she’ll create a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today said she is pressing forward with plans to create a select committee to investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a move that comes about a month after Senate Republicans blocked a vote on creating a 9/11-style commission.

The select committee would need to be approved by the Democrat-controlled House. While the committee would give Democrats a more centralized forum to investigate the insurrection, it’s also a more partisan route compared to an independent commission.

And that means lawmakers might not come to a consensus over what caused the attack. [NPR]

5. How long will your mail be delayed under USPS slowdown?

The U.S. Postal Service’s plan to slow down mail delivery in an effort to fix its finances would disproportionately affect western and southwestern states, as well swaths of Florida and the northeast, according to an analysis from The Washington Post.

You can enter your ZIP code in the link and see how the slowdown would affect your mail delivery. I put mine in, and it shows the Chicago area won’t see much of a difference from the current two day delivery time. But some parts of Illinois could see delivery times jump to three days. [Washington Post]

Here’s what else is happening

• More than 90 people are unaccounted for after a building partially collapsed in Florida, causing at least one death. [NPR]
• A Chicago police sergeant could face discipline for his role in a narcotics arrest more than 15 years ago involving corrupt former Sgt. Ronald Watts. [WBEZ]
• Cook County officials plan to go on a hiring spree after years of layoffs. [WBEZ]
• Chicago has 50 years to remove lead pipes. [WBEZ]

Oh, and one more thing …

Tonight is the strawberry moon, and no, I’m not talking about some minor band from the 1970s.

Tonight’s full moon is known as the strawberry moon, but that doesn’t mean it’ll look red or pink, proving once again that the moon is one of the biggest stunt queens in our solar system.

As NPR reports, the name comes from the “Algonquin tribes of North America who related its appearance to the start of the strawberry picking season.” The so-called strawberry moon goes by other names, like hot moon, rose moon and honey moon.

Maybe we should update these names and call tonight’s full moon the super gay moon since it’s Pride Month. [NPR]

Tell me something good …

It’s officially summer now, and I’d like to know: What are your summer plans?

Toni writes:

“My mother died one year ago, during the pandemic, in California, where my three siblings live. Next week I am finally flying to California to be with my sisters and brother as we scatter our mom’s ashes and celebrate her life. A year is a long time to wait.”

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