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The prestigious Michelin Guide has released a list of the seven “best” sandwiches in North America, and one of them can be found at a Chicago shop. The list, released by Michelin Dec. 17, is made up of Michelin Inspectors’ favorite sandwiches from across the country, but fewer than 10 made the cut. Editors say the list ranges from “regional classics to comfort food favorites. In Chicago, the Italiano from Lardon in Logan Square landed on the list. The sandwich — an Amoroso roll with soppressata, salame Calabrese, ‘nduja, provolone, shredded iceberg, tomato, onion and house giardiniera — was a “standout,” editors wrote, “showcasing incredible attention to detail and craftsmanship.” “The soppressata was rich with a touch of saltiness, while the salame Calabrese offered a delightful balance of heat and sweetness,” the list said. “The house giardiniera added a nice acidic punch that paired beautifully with the meats.” The shop, 2000 N. California Ave., specializes in charcuterie and salumi all made on site, the restaurant said, and has received a Michelin Bib Gourmand for the past four years. No other sandwiches from the Midwest made the list. Here’s are the seven sandwiches that made the cut, and where they’re from: Campechano Torta from La 89 in Mexico City Cheesesteak from Dalessandro’s in Philadelphia Cheesesteak from Fred’s Meat & Bread in Atlanta Italiano from Lardon in Chicago Lamb Pita from Yellow in Washington D.C. Muffaletta from Cochon Butcher in New Orleans Pambazo de Carnitas from La Diabla Pozole y Mezcal in Denver The full list from Michelin can be found here. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.

The NFL is marking the 60th anniversary of the Super Bowl with a hometown opening act, but that won’t be the only big-name performance in the lineup. From the national anthem to “America the Beautiful” to the opening ceremony to halftime and beyond, the star-studded lineup has finally taken shape as the big game nears. Super Bowl 60 is set to take place on Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Here’s a look at who is performing: Who will perform the opening ceremony? Green Day will kick off the big game with an opening ceremony, the league announced Sunday. The performance will celebrate six decades of the championship’s history, with the band helping usher generations of Super Bowl MVPs onto the field. The trio, who formed in the East Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area and are made up of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool, are expected to perform a selection of their best-known anthems as part of the tribute. “We are super hyped to open Super Bowl 60 right in our backyard!” lead singer Armstrong said. “We are honored to welcome the MVPs who’ve shaped the game and open the night for fans all over the world. Let’s have fun! Let’s get loud!” The ceremony airs live at 5 p.m. CT on NBC, Telemundo, Peacock and Universo. “Celebrating 60 years of Super Bowl history with Green Day as a hometown band, while honoring the NFL legends who’ve helped define this sport, is an incredibly powerful way to kick off Super Bowl LX,” said Tim Tubito, the league’s senior director of event and game presentation. “As we work alongside NBC Sports for this opening ceremony, we look forward to creating a collective celebration for fans in the stadium and around the world.” The opening ceremony will take place ahead of the pregame entertainment. Who is singing the national anthem? Charlie Puth is set to perform the national anthem. Puth is a four-time Grammy-nominated singer known for his songs “Attention,” “We Don’t Talk Anymore” and his 2015 breakout hit “See You Again,” with Wiz Khalifa, from the “Furious 7” movie soundtrack. His appearance will come ahead of his fourth studio album “Whatever’s Clever!” due on March 6. Despite backlash on social media from some who criticized Puth’s selection, the 33-year-old has promised it will be “only of my best vocal performances.” “I’ll never claim to be as good of a singer as Whitney Houston ever was,” he wrote on X. “But I assure you we’re putting a really special arrangement together—in D major.” Brandi Carlile will sing “America the Beautiful” and Coco Jones will deliver “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Carlile has won 11 Grammys and won praise for her eighth studio album “Returning to Myself,” which was released in October. She’s nominated for two Grammys with Elton John for their album “Who Believes in Angels?” released in April and their song “Never Too Late” from his documentary film “Elton John: Never Too Late.” Jones is an R&B star who won a Grammy in the best R&B performance category for her song “ICU” in 2024 and released her debut album “Why Not More?” which is nominated for best R&B album at next year’s ceremony. She also stars as Hilary Banks on Peacock’s television series “Bel-Air,” entering its last season. “Charlie, Brandi, and Coco are generational talents, and we are honored to have them — alongside our extraordinary deaf performers — on Super Bowl LX’s world stage,” said Desiree Perez, CEO of Roc Nation, which is producing the show with DPS and Jesse Collins. “This moment embodies the very best of culture, live performance and our country.” The pregame performances will air on NBC, Telemundo and Peacock. Who is performing at halftime? Bad Bunny will be the Super Bowl halftime headline performer, putting the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican artist on the league’s biggest stage. He performs in Spanish and is expected to do so at the Super Bowl. The decision sparked…

A judge and his wife were shot at the front door of their Indiana home, and whoever did it remains on the loose. Security has been tightened at the courthouse where the judge worked following the attack, the latest violent incident against a public servant. Judge Steve Meyer was ambushed at the front door of his home in Lafayette, Indiana. His wife Kim was at his side, and both of them were wounded when a man with a gun yelled through the door that he had found their dog. The shooter then opened fire through the door and an adjacent window before escaping. It played out just after 2:15 p.m. in the afternoon daylight in an Indiana neighborhood. Yet the gunman has not been publicly identified or caught. The Lafayette police radio crackled on Sunday with an ominous announcement: “Additional units possibly going to be a shooting…” The shooting happened in a duplex development near downtown Lafayette, approximately 120 miles southeast of Chicago. Early reports suggested the gunman might have been wearing a disguise of some sort. However, detectives believe he was wearing a hoodie and gym shoes. The ruse he used, claiming to have found the judge’s dog before opening fire, may have been caught on a doorbell camera – visible in a picture taken from the street to the right of the door and a covered-up window that may have been blasted during the attack. Judge Meyer and his wife, Kimberly, on the other side of the door and window, were wounded and cut from flying glass. He’s having a second surgery on one arm, and she has damage to her hip. The sudden and yet unexplained attack on a sitting state judge of 12 years has raised questions about motive and judicial security. “It’s definitely shaken everybody in our community,” said Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Deptartment Chief Deputy Terry Ruley. “Something you certainly don’t expect to see or hear or want to hear, but it unfortunately happens.” According to Ruley, since the judge and his wife were shot on Sunday, “Everybody’s been on edge, and additional resources from the sheriff’s office were called out to help try and mitigate this to the farthest extent we could.” At the Tippecanoe County courthouse, other judges and staff returned Monday after the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to increased security following Sunday’s armed ambush. There was more manpower and more firepower at the judicial center – even as there were more unanswered questions about what led to the incident and who was behind it. “Precautionary, we’ve decided to take road deputies who are out on patrol, and we’ve requested extra security be present in our courthouse for the rest of this week,” Ruley said. A recent internal survey of Indiana judges showed that more than half have been threatened. Meanwhile, the FBI and local authorities are scrubbing Judge Meyer’s casework looking for someone with a grudge and the desire to settle a score with a trigger pull. “You know judges targeted like that, not just locally, but throughout the country, is disturbing. And it’s taken very seriously,” stated Ruley. Steve Meyer is a well-known Indiana political and judiciary figure. He started as a city council member in Lafayette – a post he held for 23 years. Meyer was elected to the bench as a Democrat in 2014. For the past 12, he has heard numerous hot-button criminal cases and imposed some controversial sentences. Recently he announced that he would not run again for judge. Retirement not soon enough to evade that Sunday attack at his home.

Residents against a proposed data center in suburban Naperville plan to pack a council meeting Tuesday night, where members are expected to consider a possible vote to move the development forward. Developers have already made changes and even scaled back on their initial proposal, but some residents said they don’t buy it. They told NBC Chicago the bottom line is they don’t want the data center in their neighborhood. “We want a no vote from the council,” said Clara Lambert, a Naperville resident. Lambert lives just feet away from where developers want to build the new data center along the Interstate 88 corridor in Naperville. “Our biggest thing – it being located in the middle of a residential area,” she said. “The area has been transitioned over the last six years in residences, and its proximity to homes is what our biggest challenge is.” She’s part of a coalition made up of dozens of residents concerned about the project and possible health risks. “We’re talking about a lot of noise, a lot of diesel emission, and even with the highest standards -there’s still emission, and any emission is bad,” she said.The Naperville City Council will vote on whether to approve a conditional use permit and development agreement for a data center with Karis Critical for the project at 1960 Lucent Lane. “We have no interest in building and developing a facility that causes trouble within the community,” said Greg Strom, SVP of Strategy and Operations for Karis Critical. Developers said their plan calls for a smaller campus of one 200,000-square-foot building instead of two after hearing from concerned residents. “Because those buildings are paired down, some of the equipment and infrastructure required also starts to decrease, the number of backup generators decreases, the number of air-cooled chiller that go onto the roof to chill the equipment also goes down,” he explained. Oher changes include downsizing the number of parking spaces and increasing the height of the equipment screening wall. Developers also conducted multiple noise studies and said the power usage would be capped at 36 megawatts down from 100 megawatts. “We as a developer do not want rates to go up, so we’ve committed to any infrastructure build-out cost,” he said. “We committed to bearing any additional cost that comes a lot with that 36 megawatts of power.” Developers believe the data center will help to revitalize the tech corridor in Naperville and believe it will benefit the community in the long run creating jobs and tax revenues to provide a boost for the local economy. But some residents are still not sold. “The things they have said they have done—they say they’re mitigating the concerns – whether it’s noise or diesel emissions, but mitigation is not elimination,” said Hiba Suleman, a Naperville resident. “The risk is still present.” At least 40 residents have signed up to speak during public comment. If developers get approval, they still need to close on the property and secure several permits. If everything goes according to plan, they could break ground as early as summer.

Editor’s Note: The video in the above player is from a previous report. If you purchased canned tuna recently, you’ll want to double check what is in your cabinet. El Segundo, California based Tri-Union Seafoods announced in an FDA recall issued Tuesday that a third-party distributor “inadvertently released quarantined product that was associated to a February 2025 recall” to grocery store locations in nine states. The affected products are two kinds of Genova Yellowfin Tuna cans. The cans of recalled tuna were shipped to Meijer locations in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin, according to the recall. Giant Foods locations in Maryland and Virgina and Safeway, Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions stores in California also received the products. The recall was first issued in February 2025 because the “easy open” pull tab on the cans had a manufacturing defect that could compromise the product seal, causing it to leak or be contaminated with the toxin that causes botulism, a potentially fatal form of food poisoning, according to the recall. Here’s a closer look at the recalled products: Genova Yellowfin Tuna in Olive Oil 5.0 oz 4 Pack: UPC no. 4800073265, Can Code S84N D2L with Best if Used by Date 1/21/2028 and Can Code S84N D3L with Best if Used by Date 1/24/2028 Genova Yellowfin Tuna in in Extra Virgin Olive Oil with Sea Salt 5.0 oz: UPC no. 4800013275, Can Code S88N D1M with a Best if Used By Date 1/17/2028 Anyone with the product should not use it, even if it does not look or smell spoiled, the FDA said. Those who do consume the product and begin feeling unwell should seek immediate medical attention, the FDA added. The recalled cans of tuna can be returned to their place of purchase for a refund, thrown away, or customers can request Tri-Union can provide them with a retrieval kit directly and a coupon for a replacement product. Questions and inquiries about the retrieval kits can be directed to Tri-Union Seafoods at support@thaiunionhelp.zendesk.com or 833-374-0171.