Visitors at the 37th annual Rainbow PUSH Coalition Conference and its first annual Youth Conference were presented with a unique opportunity Tuesday. For the first time ever, all seven schools of the City Colleges of Chicago instantly enrolled students on site.

As mixed as this week was for Chicago news, there was one constant that rang true throughout the last five days.  They've been hot.  So hot, in fact, that a friend confessed yesterday he's been forced to kick his cat off his bed at night to avoid further warmth in his non-air-conditioned apartment.  It's a sad day when the heat affects the kitties.

And with that, here's this week in review.

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We here at the Windy Citizen believe in the importance of the weekend. These precious forty-eight hours should be embraced and worshipped. Waking up should be a dragged out, day-long process and going to sleep should happen only once a certain fun threshold has been crossed. In short, life should just be easier. With that in mind, we've put together The Weekender, our look back on the week's biggest news. Now even keeping informed is almost as easy as staying in bed.