| Good morning, Chicago. A woman apparently drowned Sunday evening in the Des Plaines River at a Lake County Forest
Preserve in Libertyville, according to local authorities. The woman went underwater at about 7 p.m. in the river at the Independence Grove Forest Preserve. According to Forest Preserves Police Chief Ron Davis, the woman went into the water to assist her son. After helping the boy reach another family member, the woman went underwater. A family member and others nearby helped pull her from the water. Read the full story. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day, including the candidates running to be the next Chicago school board president, Chicago White Sox taking a day-to-day approach with pitching for the City Series and our review of Mister Tiger, Korean home cooking in West Town that’s not your grandma’s galbi. Today’s eNewspaper edition | Subscribe to more newsletters | Asking Eric | Horoscopes | Puzzles & Games | Today in History A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge in New York, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pitching a plan to help shield local police officers who make immigration arrests from possible financial consequences if they are accused of on-duty misconduct. Luigi Mangione attends a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (David Dee Delgado/Pool Photo) Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which was slated to begin Sept. 8, has been postponed indefinitely as his lawyers seek to have the case thrown out on double jeopardy grounds following his guilty plea last week to federal charges. Candidates for Chicago Board of Education president, clockwise from top left, Hilario Domínguez, Victor Henderson, Jessica Biggs, Sendhil Revuluri and Jennifer Custer. (Chicago Tribune) In a historic first for Chicago, all 21 school board seats will be on the November ballot. The board was previously composed of seven mayoral appointees, but is currently in a two-year transition period, split between 10 elected and 11 appointed members. Get to know the candidates for school board president. The setting sun illuminates the exterior of South Chicago Chapel in the 2900 block of East 95th Street on Aug. 7, 2026, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) An Evergreen Park police officer was immediately suspicious in June 2024 when he found a Chrysler minivan with two canvas-wrapped, clearly decomposing corpses inside and a “horrible stench” wafting from within. The typical family van — which bore no indication it belonged to a funeral home — was double-parked on a residential street at nearly 2 a.m. A Cook County Forest Preserves employee clears brush from the Poplar Creek Bike Trail on July 31, 2023, in Hoffman Estates. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune) More than 230 members of Teamsters Local 700 working for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County went on strike yesterday, the unit’s first-ever strike at the preserves. A car stops at a security checkpoint before entering the construction site for the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park on Aug. 7, 2026, in Chicago. Mayor Brandon Johnson appeared at a “Community Over Quantum” event at a Southeast Side school over the weekend. (Vincent D. Johnson/for the Chicago Tribune) Mayor Brandon Johnson faced boos from a crowd of anti-data center activists on the South Side Saturday after not disavowing the massive “Quantum Shore” development. Chicago White Sox pitcher Erick Fedde (47) pitches during the first inning against the Houston Astros at Rate Field on Sunday, July 26, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) Davis Martin is on the injured list. Noah Schultz is in Triple A. What options do the Chicago White Sox have to provide length today and tomorrow during the City Series? Chicago Cubs' Dansby Swanson looks on during a game against the Washington Nationals, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams) The Chicago Cubs are hopeful that shortstop Dansby Swanson will be back in the lineup before the regular season ends. Swanson went on the 10-day injured list yesterday after an MRI showed a left oblique strain that forced him to exit Sunday’s game. Alex Fegan, center, has her bachelorette party at Modales Winery in Fennville, Michigan, on Aug. 14, 2026. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune) There was a time when a book could shake the world and on Aug. 17, 1976, a book titled “Roots: The Saga of an American Family” by Alex Haley arrived on bookstore shelves and immediately began to fly off those shelves and into apartments and homes across the country, starting a cultural rumble and sparking national conversations about race and slavery. The dino rib woodae galbi with wasabi onion relish and roasted mushrooms served with a banchan set and white rice at Mister Tiger, 1132 W. Grand Ave., in Chicago, on Aug. 13, 2026. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune) Mister Tiger, a Korean restaurant that opened as an ode to a grandmother’s home cooking, has become a new chef’s culinary coming of age. Min Lee co-owns the business, which debuted in West Town in May 2025, with her brother Charlie Park and her husband, Brian Lee. Park, a product manager, also leads the bar program and front of the house. Brian Lee, an attorney, oversees operations. Chef Min Lee was previously a structural engineer. “I grew up with my grandma, eating her food,” she said of Bong Kim, who cooked and cared for the family after they emigrated from Busan, the seaside city in South Korea. “I just wanted to bring that to Chicago.” | 
