| Good afternoon, Chicago. Two men face first-degree murder charges in the killing of 67-year-old Jerry Lewis earlier this week outside his Near West Side office. Lewis was a fixture in the area who for years worked to improve the surrounding communities, his son told the Tribune earlier this week. “(He was) really trying to change
the neighborhood,” son Zach Lewis said the day after his father was shot and killed. “You wouldn’t expect his own neighborhood to turn on him.” Here’s what else is happening today. And remember, for the latest breaking news in Chicago, visit chicagotribune.com/latest-headlines and sign up to get our alerts on all your devices. Subscribe to more newsletters | Asking Eric | Horoscopes | Puzzles & Games | Today in History news People walk along the lakefront near Belmont Harbor on June 5, 2025, as the skyline is
obscured by air pollution from Canadian wildfires. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency declared it an Air Pollution Action Day. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) During a year marked by Canadian wildfire smoke and an unprecedented dust storm, which worsened transportation emissions, Chicago ranked as the third-most polluted major U.S. city in 2025, according to a report released Tuesday. More top news stories: business West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park is pictured in August, 2025. Hospital
officials announced Wednesday it would suspend all patient care operations amid an ongoing financial crisis. (Dominic Di Palermo/Chicago Tribune) West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park is temporarily shutting down its patient care amid a yearlong financial crisis, village and hospital officials said. More top business stories: sports Illinois coach Brad Underwood and his son Tyler react to a play against Purdue on Jan. 5, 2020. (Holly Hart/AP) For Tyler Underwood, this week is about helping his dad march toward the goal he has had since Illinois hired him in 2017: to win a national championship. More top sports stories: eat. watch. do. The nightclub room in “Theater of the Mind,” presented by the Goodman Theatre in the Reid Murdoch Building in Chicago. (Todd Rosenberg) “Theater of the Mind” is quite unlike anything else Chicago’s Goodman Theatre has produced in its first 100 years. More top Eat. Watch. Do. stories: nation & world An ever-growing collection of yellow flowers and notes sit at the home of Nancy Guthrie, the missing mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, on March 6, 2026, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rebecca Noble) Given the tremendous pain their mother suffered from, Savannah Guthrie said she and her siblings knew it wasn’t a case of a person wandering off. Then there were the propped doors, blood on the front doorstep and a camera yanked off. More top stories from around the world: | 
