<h3>Good morning, Chicago. ✶</h3><p>🔎 <b>Below</b>: City and state laws to prevent buses and other vehicles from idling and spewing fumes into the air are almost never enforced, despite the problem occurring "every day, every block."</p><p>🗞️ <b>Plus</b>: A memorial ride for a cycling advocate, alderpersons promise to reject a plan to sell Chicago's parking meters and more news you need to know.</p><p>✍️ <b>Correction</b>: <i>A previous version of this newsletter misstated the origins of a plan to sell the city's parking meters. The entity that owns the meters, Chicago Parking Meters LLC, is seeking to transfer the meters to a New York-based company.</i></p><p>📧 <b>Subscribe</b>: <a class="Link" href="https://newsletter-hub.suntimes.com/" target="_blank" ><i>Get this newsletter delivered to your inbox weekday mornings.</i></a></p><p>⏱️:&nbsp;<i>An 8-minute read</i></p><hr><p></p><h4>TODAY’S WEATHER 🌥️</h4><p>Partly sunny with a chance of thunderstorms and a high near 86.</p><hr><p></p><h4>TODAY’S TOP STORY 🔎</h4><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center> <div class="Enhancement-item" data-crop=""> <figure class="Figure"><a class="AnchorLink" id="image-fa0000" name="image-fa0000"></a> <picture data-crop="medium"> <source type="image/webp" width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/008b800/2147483647/strip/true/crop/8192x4598+0+433/resize/490x275!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F52%2F07%2F33568b254c83af523559e092efc9%2Fexcessiveidling-2606020182.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/50f61ce/2147483647/strip/true/crop/8192x4598+0+433/resize/980x550!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F52%2F07%2F33568b254c83af523559e092efc9%2Fexcessiveidling-2606020182.jpg 2x" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <source width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5192a49/2147483647/strip/true/crop/8192x4598+0+433/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F52%2F07%2F33568b254c83af523559e092efc9%2Fexcessiveidling-2606020182.jpg" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <img class="Image" alt="Charter buses are seen on upper Randolph Street in downtown Chicago." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5192a49/2147483647/strip/true/crop/8192x4598+0+433/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F52%2F07%2F33568b254c83af523559e092efc9%2Fexcessiveidling-2606020182.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c45db7d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/8192x4598+0+433/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F52%2F07%2F33568b254c83af523559e092efc9%2Fexcessiveidling-2606020182.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275" data-src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5192a49/2147483647/strip/true/crop/8192x4598+0+433/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F52%2F07%2F33568b254c83af523559e092efc9%2Fexcessiveidling-2606020182.jpg" data-lazy-load="true" src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" > </picture> <div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Charter buses idle on Randolph Street downtown.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Manuel Martinez/WBEZ</p></div></div> </figure> </div> </div><p></p><h3><a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-whhuddl-l-t/" target="_blank" >Idling limits on diesel vehicles are rarely enforced</a></h3><p></p><h5>By <a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-whhuddl-l-i/" target="_blank" >Maya Cederlund</a></h5><p><b>The laws</b>:&nbsp;A 2006 state law limits diesel vehicles' idling time to 10 minutes per hour and imposes penalties for violations.