Parson’s Chicken & Fish will unveil it’s brand new location in Andersonville next week. The new location marks the fourth in Chicago; with the original Chicago location in Logan Square, the Lincoln Park location, and latest location in West Town rounding them out.

Parson’s, a staple within the Land and Sea Dept. restaurant group is known for its Nashville hot chicken and Negroni slushies both of which are perfect to enjoy on Parson’s large outdoor patios. Also under the Land and Sea Dept. umbrella includes Longman and Eagle, Lost Lake, and Lonesome Rose.

The new Andersonville Parson’s location will be open from 11AM to 11PM every day and is located at 5721 N Clark St, the former location of Stone Fox which closed back in 2019. According to the Chicago Tribune, Parson’s had been eying a location north for quite some time and the Stone Fox outpost had always been circled on their list as it checks the boxes of a classic Parson’s Chicken & Fish location.

I personally am a huge fan of Parson’s entire aura. The menu is absolutely next level and their variety of hot chicken, pickles, and other seafood dishes is the perfect summertime meal. The patio’s at the Logan and Lincoln Park locations are accommodating for groups of all sizes, and while the Negroni slush isn’t my bag, drinking ice cold cans of Parson’s branded beer is a summertime treat. You can find the addresses for all four Parson’s locations below:

Parson’s Chicken & Fish Logan Square | 2952 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647

Parson’s Chicken & Fish Lincoln Park | 2435 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614

Parson’s Chicken & Fish West Town | 2109 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

Parson’s Chicken & Fish Andersonville | 5721 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60660

Parson’s will officially open on Wednesday at 11 AM with a ribbon cutting ceremony from the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce.

Featured Image Credit: Parson’s Chicken & Fish on Facebook

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Performances at the St. James Theatre begin June 26 with an end date set — at least for now — for Sept. 4.

NEW YORK — The Boss just can’t quit Broadway.

Bruce Springsteen will return to Broadway this summer for a limited run of his one-man show “Springsteen on Broadway.” Performances at the St. James Theatre begin June 26 with an end date set — at least for now — for Sept. 4.

“I loved doing ‘Springsteen on Broadway’ and I’m thrilled to have been asked to reprise the show as part of the reopening of Broadway,” the rocker said in a statement.

“Springsteen on Broadway” debuted in 2017 and was extended three times, finally closing in late 2018. Columbia Records put out a two-disc soundtrack of “Springsteen on Broadway” and a filmed version of the show is on Netflix.

In the show, Springsteen performs 15 songs — including “My Hometown,” “Thunder Road,” and “Born in the USA” — and tells stories about growing up in New Jersey. Some of the stories will be familiar to readers of his autobiography, and he even reads from it. His wife, Patti Scialfa, accompanies him for “Brilliant Disguise.”

Audience members will be required to provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination in order to enter the theater.

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Valencia officially launched her campaign Monday at the headquarters of the Painters District Council 14, one of the unions backing her run.

City Clerk Anna Valencia officially launched her bid to succeed outgoing Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White on Monday, promising “everyone will have a seat at my table.”

Before White’s time leading the office, Valencia said it used to be a place where “people with special connections could land jobs” or a “campaign contribution could buy you special treatment or a permit.”

White changed that “pay-to-play” culture, Valencia said, pledging to build on the changes the longtime secretary of state made.

“Running an office that serves all people — Chicago, downstate, in the suburbs, everyday working class people of all races, just like my family — requires the highest standards of integrity and an honor,” the Granite City native said. “That has been the hallmark of my career, and it will be the hallmark of my service as secretary of state.”

She said her father, Joe, “proudly stripes … streets” currently as a member of Painters District Council 58, which endorsed Valencia Monday.

Valencia made her announcement at the headquarters of the Painters District Council 14, which also is backing her bid along with Unite Here Local 1. The unions will provide the boots on the ground, and financial support, needed for the statewide race, which is becoming increasingly hotly contested.

Roushaunda Williams, a leader with Unite Here Local 1 and vice president of the Illinois chapter of the AFL-CIO, said Valencia has “truly earned her place in the heart of our union members,” pointing to her “meetings with fire union workers, walking picket lines with striking hotel workers, advocating for policies that help working people.”

Fran Spielman/Sun-Times file

“Anna has shown us who she was through the years,” Williams said. “She was an outspoken advocate. … With Anna by our side, people started to come forward, with her being a champion for our cause people stepped forward to share their story. Anna has been in our union life, and part of our union family, since 2017. She gets the work done — she does what she says she’s going to do.”

Valencia said her campaign will focus on equity, accessibility and modernization from “Chicago to … Granite City, Springfield, Peoria and Rockford — and everywhere in between,” vowing that “everyone will have a seat at my table.”

Her plan to carry through on that includes reducing language barriers for those needing to do business with the office, expanding library hours, increasing grants for technology upgrades and investments so “no matter what ZIP code you live in your library can get you plugged in to the digital world.”

Valencia also said that, if she’s elected, she’ll call for a commission to make sure the state is a leader in expanding access to voting.

Valencia’s official arrival in the race comes a day after former state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias won the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia.

Asked about the Southwest Side Democrat endorsing another, non-Latino candidate in the race, Valencia said she wasn’t concerned.

Rich Hein/Sun-Times file; Brian Kersey/Getty Images

“The most important endorsement I can get is from the voters,” Valencia said. “We’ve got a year and 21 days in this race to build a grassroots coalition like you saw today — Latino pastors and Black women and union painters, Unite Here Local 1. This is what the coalition is going to look like — very inclusive, very diverse, all across the state — and this is just the first of many endorsements that we’re going to be rolling out.”

Valencia went on to say she feels “very confident” about her chances, pointing to her roots in southern Illinois and her experience in an executive office over the last four years.

“It’s about relationships, it’s about momentum and strategy and that’s what my team has,” Valencia said. “This is a long game — a year and 21 days — and we’re playing the long game. So, I’m very confident that we’ll have every resource we need to go on TV, to advertise, digital, all of that.”

Ashlee Rezin Garcia; Brian Jackson; Rich Hein/Sun-Times file

Valencia joins Giannoulias, Aldermen Pat Dowell (3rd) and David Moore (17th) and state Sen. Michael Hastings, D-Tinley Park who are all vying to replace White, who announced in 2019 he would not seek reelection.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the average carbon dioxide level for May was 419.13 parts per million. That’s 1.82 parts per million higher than May 2020 and 50% higher than the stable pre-industrial levels of 280 parts per million, said NOAA climate scientist Pieter Tans.

The annual peak of global heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air has reached another dangerous milestone: 50% higher than when the industrial age began.

And the average rate of increase is faster than ever, scientists reported Monday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the average carbon dioxide level for May was 419.13 parts per million. That’s 1.82 parts per million higher than May 2020 and 50% higher than the stable pre-industrial levels of 280 parts per million, said NOAA climate scientist Pieter Tans.

Carbon dioxide levels peak every May just before plant life in the Northern Hemisphere blossoms, sucking some of that carbon out of the atmosphere and into flowers, leaves, seeds and stems. The reprieve is temporary, though, because emissions of carbon dioxide from burning coal, oil and natural gas for transportation and electricity far exceed what plants can take in, pushing greenhouse gas levels to new records every year.

“Reaching 50% higher carbon dioxide than preindustrial is really setting a new benchmark and not in a good way,” said Cornell University climate scientist Natalie Mahowald, who wasn’t part of the research. “If we want to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, we need to work much harder to cut carbon dioxide emissions and right away.”

Climate change does more than increase temperatures. It makes extreme weather — storms, wildfires, floods and droughts — worse and more frequent and causes oceans to rise and get more acidic, studies show. There are also health effects, including heat deaths and increased pollen. In 2015, countries signed the Paris agreement to try to keep climate change to below what’s considered dangerous levels.

The one-year jump in carbon dioxide was not a record, mainly because of a La Nina weather pattern, when parts of the Pacific temporarily cool, said Scripps Institution of Oceanography geochemist Ralph Keeling. Keeling’s father started the monitoring of carbon dioxide on top of the Hawaiian mountain Mauna Loa in 1958, and he has continued the work of charting the now famous Keeling Curve.

Scripps, which calculates the numbers slightly differently based on time and averaging, said the peak in May was 418.9.

Also, pandemic lockdowns slowed transportation, travel and other activity by about 7%, earlier studies show. But that was too small to make a significant difference. Carbon dioxide can stay in the air for 1,000 years or more, so year-to-year changes in emissions don’t register much.

The 10-year average rate of increase also set a record, now up to 2.4 parts per million per year.

“Carbon dioxide going up in a few decades like that is extremely unusual,” Tans said. “For example, when the Earth climbed out of the last ice age, carbon dioxide increased by about 80 parts per million and it took the Earth system, the natural system, 6,000 years. We have a much larger increase in the last few decades.”

By comparison, it has taken only 42 years, from 1979 to 2021, to increase carbon dioxide by that same amount.

“The world is approaching the point where exceeding the Paris targets and entering a climate danger zone becomes almost inevitable,” said Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, who wasn’t part of the research.

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PARIS — Google is being fined $268 million by France’s antitrust watchdog for abusing its ‘dominant’ position in online advertising.

The search engine giant is also promising to overhaul the way its platform is used for buying and selling digital ads, at least in France, which could have repercussions on its ongoing legal fights with regulators elsewhere in Europe, the U.S. and around the world.

Google’s advertising practices have harmed its competitors along with publishers of mobile websites and applications, the French Competition Authority said Monday. The authority said it is the responsibility of a company with a dominant market position to avoid unfairly undermining its competition.

Google, based in Mountain View, California, did not dispute the facts and opted to settle after proposing some changes, according to a prepared statement from the Competition Authority.

The settlement might serve as a roadmap for other governments that are scrutinizing Google’s market power, said Douglas Melamed, a Stanford University law professor.

“I imagine that Google’s decision to settle reflected a judgment that it could live with those terms even if it were forced upon it by other jurisdictions,” he said.

The head of the authority, Isabelle de Silva, said the decision was unprecedented in the way that it delved into the complex algorithmic auctions that power Google’s business selling online display ads.

The fine, along with Google’s commitment to changing its practices, “will make it possible to re-establish a level playing field for all players, and the ability for publishers to make the most of their advertising space,” de Silva said.

Google France’s legal director, Maria Gomri, said in a blog post Monday that Google has been collaborating for the past two years with the French watchdog on issues related to ad technology, notably the platform known as Google Ad Manager. She wrote that commitments made during negotiations would “make it easier for publishers to make use of data and use our tools with other ad technologies.”

After tests in the months ahead, changes will be deployed more broadly, some of them globally, Gomri said. She didn’t specify which changes would apply outside of France.

The French authority’s investigation was prompted by complaints from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., French newspaper group Le Figaro and Belgium-based Rossel La Voix. Le Figaro later withdrew its complaint.

U.S. tech giants have been facing intensifying scrutiny in Europe and elsewhere over their business practices. Germany became the latest country to launch an investigation of Google, using stepped up powers to scrutinize digital giants.

The German competition watchdog said Friday that it was examining whether contracts for news publishers using Google’s News Showcase, a licensing platform launched last fall, include “unreasonable conditions.”

Google has been facing pressure from authorities to pay for news and signed a deal earlier this year with a group of French publishers that paves the way for it to make digital copyright payments.

European Union regulators have also charged Apple with stifling competition in music streaming and accused Amazon of using data from independent merchants to unfairly compete against them with its own products. They are investigating Google’s data practices for advertising purposes and recently opened a formal antitrust investigation into Facebook’s advertising practices.

In the U.S., the Justice Department and dozens of states brought antitrust lawsuits against Google last year. They are seeking to prove that Google has been methodically abusing its power as the internet’s main gateway in a way that hurts consumers and advertisers.

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama coach Nick Saban, who has won a record seven national championships, has agreed to a three-year contract extension running through the 2029 season.

Alabama announced the extension on Monday, including $8.425 million in base salary and talent fee for the current contract year with annual raises of unspecified amounts.

The 69-year-old Saban, who has led the Crimson Tide to six national championships since taking over in 2007, will receive an $800,000 “contract completion benefit” after each contract year from 2022-25.

Saban said in statement that he and his wife Terry “are pleased and happy to sign another contract extension that will keep us in Tuscaloosa through the end of our career. Our family calls Tuscaloosa and the state of Alabama home, it’s a place where our roots now run deep.”

He signed a new eight-year deal in 2018 worth at least $74.4 million, including $400,000 annual raises and three payments of $800,000 for completing contract years.

Alabama won another national championship in Saban’s 14th season this January with his second perfect record with the Tide. It was a record seventh national title for Saban, who also won the 2003 BCS crown at LSU, breaking the tie with former Alabama coach Bear Bryant among FBS coaches.

He has led Alabama to seven Southeastern Conference championships and a 170-23 on-the-field record (five wins were vacated in 2007 due to NCAA infractions).

“Coach Saban is the best college football coach in the nation, and one of the greatest coaches of all time in any sport, and we are extremely fortunate that he has agreed to another contract extension at Alabama,” Tide athletic director Greg Byrne said.

Alabama has been ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press Poll for at least one week for 13 straight years, breaking the previous record of seven set by Miami from 1986-92.

Alabama’s 127 wins over the past decade is the best 10-year run by any FBS school during the AP poll era going back to 1936.

The financial terms of the contract remain subject to approval by the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees, who have been notified of the proposed terms and conditions.

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