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Eleven Marines, one Navy sailor and one Army soldier were among the dead, while 18 other U.S. service members were wounded in Thursday’s bombing, which also claimed the lives of more than 160 Afghans. Officials have blamed the bombing on Afghanistan’s offshoot of the Islamic State group.

The lowest-paid alderman is Marty Quinn, who represents the Southwest Side 13th Ward that’s former House Speaker Michael Madigan’s seat of power. Quinn makes $109,812, according to city records. At the high end, 31 aldermen are paid $123,504. The other 18 council members have salaries between those poles.

“Marginalized communities have always been a part of the struggle for workers’ rights, from women and children working in the factories, to immigrants working in the fields, to the free African Americans who were hired to work as porters,” Haaland, a former Teamster, said in her keynote address Monday.

“It’s been a long time since we’ve marched in person,” Michael Lufrano, who helps organize the parade and is a lifelong participant, said. “(The parade has) been about our neighbors, it’s been about coming together on Labor Day and Memorial Day to celebrate our country, to celebrate our community.”

“I have family members that I don’t invite over for family gatherings, just because of some of the issues that come with that family member that is living a life of crime. I don’t want to bring it to my home,” he said, before directly addressing families, adding that he was not trying to “condescend” to anyone. “I would encourage you, as a family, to protect your children from people in the family that are on the wrong side of the law.”

Mychal “MJ” Moultry Jr., 4, of Alabama, died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021, after being shot late Friday while getting his hair braided in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago. MJ is shown here at an airport on his way to Chicago this past weekend. (Family photo)

“Unsurprisingly to anyone who stepped outside the last few months, summer 2021 in Chicago was warm and humid,” Trent Ford, Illinois state climatologist, wrote in an email to the Tribune. “The average temperature was 75.3 degrees, the eighth highest on record (back to 1873). This compares to 76.7 degrees last summer, which was the warmest summer on record. Four of the top 10 warmest summers on record in Chicago have occurred since 2010 (2010, 2012, 2020, 2021).”

This Monday’s holiday has deep Chicago roots: It was the Pullman factory strike of 1894 that led to the establishment of Labor Day as a national holiday. Decades later, the famous Pullman Porters would form the first Black union to receive a collective bargaining agreement with a major U.S. corporation.

Around 3 a.m. Sunday, a 14-year-old boy was shot while standing outside in the 2500 block of South Trumbull Avenue in Little Village. The teen was shot at by someone in a white vehicle who then fled the scene, police said. He was shot in the thigh and buttocks and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition.

The shortage was created by Advocate’s decision to end contract negotiations with United Anesthesia Associates, a private anesthesiologist practice based in Elgin with whom it has had a contract for 30 years, spokesman Dr. Sanjay Sutaria said. The move led to 17 anesthesiologists losing their jobs, he said.