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Good afternoon, Chicago. A Chicago police sergeant has been charged with wire fraud after she allegedly stole thousands of dollars in COVID-19 relief aid, federal prosecutors announced yesterday. Brandi Wright, 44, is accused of fraudulently obtaining more than $41,000 through a federal pandemic relief fund program meant to keep
small businesses afloat for a bakery she claimed to own but that didn’t actually exist, according to a criminal information filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago on Monday. 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 Workers finish installing words from from President Barack Obama’s speech marking the 50th anniversary of
the Selma to Montgomery march, on the exterior of the Obama Presidential Center Museum building on Feb. 17, 2026, (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) Tickets allow for a timed entry to the museum. The rest of the campus — located in Jackson Park on the South Side — will be accessible without a ticket. More top news stories: business Brookfield Zoo employees strike outside the zoo’s south entrance on May 4, 2026. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune) More than 100 zoo workers, including members of the groundskeeping and custodial staff, walked off the job Monday morning after contract negotiations between the Teamsters and zoo management stalled. More top business stories: sports Princeton guard Madison St. Rose reacts during a first-round NCAA Tournament game against Oklahoma State
on March 21, 2026, in Los Angeles. St. Rose will transfer to Notre Dame for the 2026-27 season. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh) With the women’s basketball transfer portal window closed, most teams have taken shape, though some additions still can be made. Here’s a look at the new rosters for Notre Dame, Northwestern and Illinois — the latter, unlike the Irish, very much unchanged from the 2025-26 version. More top sports stories: eat. watch. do. Will Quam talks about brick bungalows during one of his neighborhood tours in Albany Park, April 19, 2026. Quam,
who runs the Instagram account Brick of Chicago, has a new book called “Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago.” (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) In his new non-fiction
book “Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago,” Will Quam writes that brick in Chicago is “such a ubiquitous material that it is quite easily forgotten or ignored, simple background noise to everything else.” And yet, ever since the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, brick has been a key driver in shaping the city’s look. More top Eat. Watch. Do. stories: nation & world In this photo released by the Telegram channel of Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, China’s Foreign Minister
Wang Yi, right, meets with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Beijing, China, May 6, 2026. (Telegram channel of the Iranian Foreign Minister via AP) The president posted on social media that the war with Iran could soon end and that oil and natural gas shipments could restart — but that all depends on Iran accepting a reported agreement that the U.S. president did not detail. More top stories from around the world: | 
