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Ben Macuga, a biology researcher from the Indiana University Northwest, takes water samples from Burns Ditch at the Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk for testing on Aug. 21, 2019. The National Park Service closed the Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk beach areas and waters at Indiana Dunes National Park due to a chemical spill. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)
“We sincerely hope that we, as a school community, can navigate this challenging situation without further escalation of conflict, and we thank you for continuing to comply as we wait for the legal wrangling to resolve and we get more clarity on the future and when CPS will no longer require masks.”
Wortham’s father, Thomas Wortham III, himself a retired Chicago police sergeant, said at Taylor and McGee’s trials in 2014 that he saw much of the attack unfold while in his slippers, first from the doorway of his house as the two men attempted to rob his son, then on the street as he engaged the Floyds in a gunbattle.
Northwest Side Ald. Nick Sposato, 38th, said it wasn’t just what Thompson did for a living that made him a federal target, but the fact he’s a Daley. “I just think he got the royal screw job because of what his name is,” Sposato said. “If his name had been John Smith, they would have said, ‘Pay us what you owe us and we’ll call it even.’”
The Chicago Board of Education approved the name change in March 2021, months after the Chicago Sun-Times identified some 30 Chicago schools named for slaveholders and several other schools that bear the name of someone who held racist or misogynistic attitudes. CPS administrators have vowed to consider a change if a school is named after “individuals who do not represent the values of our students, families, faculty and support staff.”
Jordan, then 33, scored 44, 40, 36, 35 and 40 points in consecutive games from Nov. 23 to Dec. 3, 1996, at the end of a seven-game trip. The Bulls were 16-1 after the streak ended, and no one was all that surprised about Jordan’s output. He already had eight NBA scoring titles under his belt and twice had averaged 35 points or more in an entire season.
When we go into these grocery stores and try to get these accounts, they’re not just looking at us as a product. They’re looking at who we are as individuals and then the question lies: Do they do that with anybody else of different backgrounds? When we first started, we were told from a gentleman that was in this industry for over 40 years, that this was the first time his people were sitting down with Black people. To hear those statements, and realize the importance of African American business … our role is to say that all Black men are not dangerous. Just because we’re from Chicago, the South Side, young, Black males, we automatically have this stereotype, or stigma over us, which is not the case.
Today, Jordan owns an 11-bedroom, 28,000-square-foot, $12.4 million mansion on three acres in Jupiter, Fla. He also paid $3.14 million in 2010 for the two top-floor penthouses in a condominium in downtown Charlotte, N.C., just two blocks from the arena where the NBA team he owns, the Charlotte Bobcats, plays. And, he owns a six-bedroom, 12,310-square-foot mansion in Cornelius, N.C., which he purchased in 2013 for $2.8 million. And although it received no coverage at the time, Jordan sold a five-bedroom, 9,574-square-foot house near the Glenwild Golf Course in Park City, Utah in December 2020 to a buyer from the Seattle area for an undisclosed price after that home had been listed for $7.5 million.
Today, Jordan owns an 11-bedroom, 28,000-square-foot, $12.4 million mansion on three acres in Jupiter, Fla. He also paid $3.14 million in 2010 for the two top-floor penthouses in a condominium in downtown Charlotte, N.C., just two blocks from the arena where the NBA team he owns, the Charlotte Bobcats, plays. And, he owns a six-bedroom, 12,310-square-foot mansion in Cornelius, N.C., which he purchased in 2013 for $2.8 million. And although it received no coverage at the time, Jordan sold a five-bedroom, 9,574-square-foot house near the Glenwild Golf Course in Park City, Utah in December 2020 to a buyer from the Seattle area for an undisclosed price after that home had been listed for $7.5 million.
Thompson, 52, the grandson and nephew of Chicago’s two longest-serving mayors, is charged with falsely claiming mortgage interest deductions on his tax returns and repeatedly lying about lines of credit he received from Washington Federal Bank for Savings, which was shut down by federal regulators in late 2017.