Author: staff
Last February, the mayor’s commission on monuments flagged statues of Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and William McKinley, as well as a Benjamin Franklin statue, a police memorial tied to the Haymarket Riot and a statue of Leif Erikson at Humboldt Park, as potentially problematic, but did not make final recommendations about what should happen.
De Zwaan, an authentic Dutch windmill, is seen among tulips on Windmill Island during “Tulip Time” in Holland, Michigan, on May 5, 2021. De Zwaan, which is Dutch for “the swan” or “graceful birds,” was built in the 1770s and was moved to Windmill Island from the Netherlands in 1964. (Joel Bissell/Tribune News Service)
Customers buy a bag of books at an Amazon Books store, Nov. 20, 2017, in New York. Amazon is confirming it’s closing all of its physical bookstores as well as its 4-star shops and pop up locations as the online behemoth reworks its physical footprint. (Mark Lennihan/AP)
“If he’s here on the last day of the season,” Davidson said of Fleury, “I’m fine with that because we have a lot of young players, we have a lot of players who are learning a heck of a lot from someone that’s one of the best people in the game and one of the best professionals in the game.
“This is a kind of case, if this is in fact true, of such incredible significance — somebody who has really shaped Illinois politics for 40 years, dominated almost every aspect of life, from a political standpoint, from a legislative standpoint — you better have a tight case because you’re going to take the shot, you’re not going to want to miss,” Lightfoot said.
For better or worse, the Bears’ 2022 depth chart remains pretty bare. Of the eight receivers currently on the roster, four have contracts that expire March 16: Allen Robinson, Marquise Goodwin, Damiere Byrd and Jakeem Grant. Three others — Dazz Newsome, Nsimba Webster and Isaiah Coulter — spent all or most of last season on the practice squad.
According to an MLB memorandum found crumpled into a ball in a recyclable bin outside Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Fla., a ghost negotiator would not be physically present in the room during talks, nor would he or she be named. In fact, neither side would know anything about the opposing side’s ghost negotiator except that said negotiator would no longer be living, as dictated by his or her ghost status.
“They were trying to sneak things through us, it was like they think we’re dumb baseball players and we get sleepy after midnight or something,” Stripling said. “It’s like that stupid football quote, they are who we thought they were. They did exactly what we thought they would do. They pushed us to a deadline that they imposed, and then they tried to sneak some shit past us at that deadline and we were ready for it. We’ve been ready for five years.”
Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, for decades the most powerful politician in the state, was indicted Wednesday on federal racketeering charges alleging an array of bribery schemes aimed at using the power of his office for personal gain.
Since Reed’s sentence was commuted, Reed’s attorneys argued, the matter is closed. Prosecutors cannot try him again since the order to throw out his conviction was never technically signed, they said, and Reed’s sentence has been completed. Any further action would be in violation of Reed’s double jeopardy rights, they argued at a hearing in November.