Groups file suit:

Several community groups have sued the city of Chicago to bypass or even scuttle a draft deal between Chicago and the Justice Department that seeks to reform the nation’s second largest police force without federal court oversight. The filing Wednesday in Chicago federal court argues that any Chicago Police Department overhaul in the wake of a damning civil rights report can’t work without the intense scrutiny of a court-appointed monitor answerable to a judge. The lawsuit says that “absent federal court supervision, nothing will improve.” Plaintiff attorneys are holding a news conference later Wednesday.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration says the Justice Department is reviewing a draft police-reform deal that calls for a monitor, though not a court-selected one. A Justice Department report in January found deep-rooted problems with Chicago police.

Roommate held in killing:

Authorities say a 25-year-old man sought by police in the stabbing death of his roommate, who had moved from Chicago, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has been arrested near the Southern California desert town of Indio. Records showed that Zachary Tait Drey was being held Wednesday at a Riverside County jail in Banning, California, pending a June 27 court appearance following his arrest last Friday at a gas station off Interstate 10. Court records show that Drey is sought on a warrant charging him with murder and robbery in the May 31 killing of 25-year-old Clifton Jade Alexander Taylor in their off-campus apartment. Officials said Taylor was a computer engineering student at UNLV, where he was president of the school’s National Society of Black Engineers chapter.

King to speak at Northwestern:

Tennis great and equal rights advocate Billie Jean King will speak and receive an honorary degree at Northwestern University’s commencement ceremony. King is scheduled to deliver the main address during Friday’s ceremony at Ryan Field in Evanston. King’s tennis career featured 39 Grand Slam titles, including 20 Wimbledon championships. Sports Illustrated named her the magazine’s Sportsperson of the Year in 1972, and in 2009 President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Obama said the award honored King’s off-the-court actions, which included advocating for gender equity and gay rights. King was in the first class inducted into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame and is a founding member of the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative and the Women’s Sports Foundation.