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• Meet Lucero Varela, a 17-year-old Lake View High School student who was a guest of honor last week at the White House Science Fair. For Lucero, it was one step closer to her dream career; not a physicist or chemical engineer, but a congresswoman.

Yes, she shook the president's hand. She's in the pink.

(Provided/Lucero Varela)

No need to go to Michigan anymore. Chicago's only pick-your-own organic fruit orchard is coming to Back of the Yards.

Breanne Heath on the site of Pie Patch Farm, her pick-your-own organic fruit orchard in the works on South Laflin Street. (DNAinfo/Janet Rausa Fuller)

• An online petition signed by almost 10,000 people demands that the city revisit a new policy that reduces the time required before the city pound sends cats and dogs to animal-rescue agencies.

(PAWS Chicago)

• Brian Kelly, coach of the legendary Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, will hold a clinic for Far South Side elementary students this summer. 

Will he be scouting future talent?

Getty Images/Rob Carr

After months of uncertainty, plans to build a controversial Uptown luxury high-rise on the lakefront have resurfaced.

It's replacing the old Maryville Academy.

Flickr/Mark Susina

Deadheads and Juggalos, they aren't so different. Read about how a Grateful Dead cover band's attempted April Fools' prank — which may or may not have led them to cover the Insane Clown Posse — bridged the gap between these two passionate musical fan groups.

Terrpin Flyer, a Grateful Dead cover band.

• File this under "not a good idea." A man was arrested after he threatened police officers who testified against his brother, prosecutors said. He later jumped into a car, driven by a third brother, trying to block the path of the officers after they left the courthouse. That means all three brothers appeared as defendants in the Cook County court system this week.

• A new nature reserve is taking shape on the Far North Side.

(DNAinfo/Benjamin Woodard)

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