The move effectively calls for a carve out for religious organizations from the rarely used IRS rule called the Johnson Amendment, put in place in 1954 and named after then-Sen. Lyndon Johnson.

Officers responded to calls of a person shot around 8:35 a.m. in the 13400 block of South Torrence Avenue and found the wounded boy, Chicago police said.

Chicago passed on a top rookie to land veteran guard Ariel Atkins. With Citron surging and Atkins settling in, the early ...