The Spin: Lightfoot calls COVID-19 uptick ‘alarming’ | Pritzker’s public health team puts brakes on reopening plans | Biden picks Candace Jackson-Akiwumi for seat on Chicago appellate court

Meantime, President Joe Biden announced this morning he’s nominating former assistant federal defender Candace Jackson-Akiwumi to Chicago’s federal appellate court, the Tribune’s Jason Meisner reports. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she would be the only Black woman on the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.