<h3>Good morning, Chicago. ✶</h3><p>🔎 <b>Below</b>:&nbsp;At a Joliet prison designed to treat people with serious mental illness, desperate men are setting themselves on fire.</p><p>🗞️ <b>Plus</b>:&nbsp;Temporary protected status ends for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, storms batter the Chicago area, data center rumors and more news you need to know.</p><p>📝&nbsp;<b>Keeping score</b>:&nbsp;<a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-wudyug-l-j/" target="_blank" >The Cubs beat the Cardinals</a>, 7-3;&nbsp;<a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-wudyug-l-t/" target="_blank" >the White Sox fell to the Yankees</a>, 9-5.</p><p>📧 <b>Subscribe</b>: <a class="Link" href="https://newsletter-hub.suntimes.com/" target="_blank" ><i>Get our morning newsletter delivered to your inbox weekday mornings.</i></a></p><p>⏱️: <i>An&nbsp;8-minute read</i></p><hr><p></p><h4>TODAY’S WEATHER 🌤️</h4><p>Mostly sunny with a high near 78.</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-f10000" name="image-f10000"></a> <picture data-crop="medium"> <source type="image/webp" width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9d8485b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1845x1035+0+97/resize/490x275!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ff5%2Fb9%2Fd3a6cfda458a9884ac6ca9db1871%2F773821c7-24c5-4ef1-a365-d0f9f37966fb.png 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/81764e8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1845x1035+0+97/resize/980x550!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ff5%2Fb9%2Fd3a6cfda458a9884ac6ca9db1871%2F773821c7-24c5-4ef1-a365-d0f9f37966fb.png 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/0115a96/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1845x1035+0+97/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ff5%2Fb9%2Fd3a6cfda458a9884ac6ca9db1871%2F773821c7-24c5-4ef1-a365-d0f9f37966fb.png" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <img class="Image" alt="A security camera in the Joliet Treatment Center shows a fire in one man&#x27;s cell in July 2024" srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0115a96/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1845x1035+0+97/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ff5%2Fb9%2Fd3a6cfda458a9884ac6ca9db1871%2F773821c7-24c5-4ef1-a365-d0f9f37966fb.png 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/877de78/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1845x1035+0+97/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ff5%2Fb9%2Fd3a6cfda458a9884ac6ca9db1871%2F773821c7-24c5-4ef1-a365-d0f9f37966fb.png 2x" width="490" height="275" data-src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0115a96/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1845x1035+0+97/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ff5%2Fb9%2Fd3a6cfda458a9884ac6ca9db1871%2F773821c7-24c5-4ef1-a365-d0f9f37966fb.png" data-lazy-load="true" src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" > </picture> <div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>A security camera in the Joliet Treatment Center shows a fire in one man’s cell in July 2024</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Kaplan &amp; Grady</p></div></div> </figure> </div> </div><p></p><h3><a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-wudyug-l-h/" target="_blank" >At Joliet prison, desperate men set themselves on fire</a></h3><p></p><h5>By <a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-wudyug-l-k/" target="_blank" >Shannon Heffernan</a></h5><p><b>Prison on fire</b>:&nbsp;There have been more than 70 fires at the Joliet Treatment Center in the last three years, according to an investigation by The Marshall Project, WBEZ and the Sun-Times. They include a dozen cases in which incarcerated men set themselves on fire.</p><p><b>Inside the facility</b>:&nbsp;The Joliet Treatment Center opened in 2017 with the promise of being a new kind of prison in Illinois, designed to provide intensive mental health treatment.