■  … a move Chicago Deputy Mayor Samir Mayekar calls Chicago’s “biggest corporate expansion” ever.

■ Google’s blog praises the center’s “unparalleled public transit access,” boasting that “we will be getting in on the ground floor of a broader revitalization of the Loop.” (2018 photo: Harry Carmichael in the Chicago Public Square Flickr group.)

■ Ex-Gov.—and potential mayoral candidate*—Pat Quinn has launched a drive to avert the only source of funding Mayor Lightfoot has identified for a dome: The renaming of Soldier Field.

■ A Sun-Times editorial: The dome proposal “might well have the words potential boondoggle stamped around the margins.”

■ A Tribune editorial: “This backward form of urban planning gives too much power to the Bears.”

■ A beloved Lincoln Park bike shop is closing after almost half a century.

■ The feds hope a new website—Heat.gov—will help people and businesses cope with increasingly frequent heatwaves.

■ Nevada’s man-made Lake Mead is drying up, exposing human remains that include at least one likely murder.

■ Facing charges they call “bogus,” two teachers could be dismissed today after encouraging students to protest a polluting industrial facility’s relocation near their Chicago public high school.

■ Want a daily emailed update on air quality for your neighborhood? Here you go.

■ Cook County Republicans are mounting their biggest slate of candidates in years for the fall election.

■ Columnist Clarence Page: “Much of the Grand Old Party is campaigning like a party of trolls.”

■ Following Gov. Pritzker’s lead in Bailey’s primary, Democrats are buying TV ads to boost Donald Trump’s pick in a Republican congressional race—a guy running against one of the few Republicans who voted to impeach Trump.

■ A Washington state congressional race spotlights Republicans’ ties to extremist groups.

■ Update: Disney’s updating Hulu policy to accept ads about political issues—including those supporting abortion rights and gun control.

■ The Justice Department’s criminal investigation of the assault on the Capitol—a thing Attorney General Merrick Garland calls “the most wide-ranging investigation in its history”—is reportedly now turning directly to Trump himself.

■ Cook County jail reports one case.

■ Experts assess the odds of contagion from activities including sexual contact (likely) to kissing (possible) to trying on clothing at a store (unlikely).

■ Be careful at Lollapalooza this weekend …

■  … another reason to consider just watching it on Hulu for free.

■ Green Day plans an after-Lolla show Friday at Metro.

■ You can watch here free—with appeals to donate.

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* And—full disclosure—a Chicago Public Square supporter.