Taste of Chicago opens today in Grant Park, families and supporters of the Whittier Field House Library will picket to prevent construction crews from entering school grounds to stop them from the demolition of special education classrooms, Conrad Black leaves the U.S Dirksen Courthouse after a federal judge said that he had not served enough time for crimes related to his looting of a newspaper empire that once included the Chicago Sun-Times and Cookie, a cockatoo, turns 78 on Saturday, June 25.