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The Morning Dispatch
Vol. XVI, No. 212
Tuesday Morning Edition
Rain by noon, 54°
Lead Story / City Hall
Two contractors, three change orders and a steel shortage later, the span that carries 11,000 cars a day between Pilsen and Bridgeport is scheduled to carry them again at 6 a.m.
By Marcy Oyelaran, City Desk · Filed 5:42 a.m.
Four pages · Updated 7:10 a.m.
World
A longer route around the cape adds nine days to a crossing. We called four importers who sell into Midwest grocers and asked what that does to a price tag. Three of them had already changed their spring orders.
By Theo Brandt · 6 min read
Business
We pulled six years of lease filings along a nine-block stretch and matched them against county sales tax receipts. The gap explains most of the paper signs in the windows this autumn.
By Marcy Oyelaran · 8 min read
Schools
Federal relief money paid for after-school reading help at eleven campuses. That money runs out in June. Principals told us they found out from a spreadsheet, not a memo.
By Theo Brandt · 5 min read
From the Editor
Opinion runs on page 3, signed, with a name and a phone number attached.
“We publish one edition a day because one is what three people can report properly. Everything on this page was called in, walked to, or read line by line before breakfast.”
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