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The Chicago Water Taxi, once a mainstay of the city's downtown commuting options, is working to figure out a new schedule for the third summer in a row as the number of office workers remains low.Though warm weather has arrived, the taxi's bright yellow boats aren't yet up and running.Parent company Wendella Tours and Cruises hopes to operate the boats once again on weekdays - a departure from the past two years, when they have run only on weekends, catering to tourists - but the date service will begin and the schedule remain to be seen, taxi executive Andrew Sargis said.

When summer arrives, Chicagoans emerge from their homes to remind themselves why so many of us chose to move here.This past weekend serves as a perfect example.The city was bathed in sunlight and filled with delighted, delightful Swifties, or Taylor Swift fans, some of whom found themselves jostling for sidewalk space with credentialed and baffled delegates from the American Society of Oncology conference.

We have historically thought about weight as the mere outcome of our deliberate choices about diet and exercise.We have not typically thought about weight like a disease.But in the past 18 months, there's been an extraordinary revolution in weight-loss medication that's putting in our hands a therapy that can help people easily shed weight without major side effects.

SCREAMING ON THE INSIDE: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood, by Jessica Grose A funny thing happens when you write an honest book about motherhood.Whenever I go to a place where there are other mothers who know about my work, someone, usually a woman in her late 30s with small children, heavy eyelids and a telltale tightness in her jaw, asks if she can talk to me in private.