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Cardwell, a native of West Virginia who had previously lived in New Jersey, was found strangled to death in her sixth-floor room inside the residential portion of the Leaning Tower YMCA, 6300 W. Touhy Ave., on Nov. 8, 1992, police said. Cardwell’s sister and brother-in-law discovered her body during a weekly visit, Det. Sgt. Mike Boba of the Niles Police Department said during a press conference last year.

“The story of the blizzard is one of delay, despair, destruction and death. It is also a story of patience, courage, neighborliness and heroism. All forms of transportation were hopelessly snarled, travelers were stranded for hours, roofs collapsed from the weight of snow and people died from shock and exposure.” Chicago Tribune, Jan. 28, 1967 Share quote & link

“Its 32 owners — none of whom are Black — profit substantially from the labor of NFL players, 70% of whom are Black. The owners watch the games from atop NFL stadiums in their luxury boxes, while their majority-Black workforce put their bodies on the line every Sunday, taking vicious hits and suffering debilitating injuries to their bodies and their brains while the NFL and its owners reap billions of dollars,” it added.

“It’s just a lot easier right now to convert that straight to cash and move on,” Woodworth said. “You could have $100 in crypto, wake up and it’s worth $50 the next morning because it never sleeps. Vice versa, you could turn around and it’s worth $150 when you wake up. That’s one of the reasons we currently don’t hold it. Do I see a time down the road where, if it stabilizes better, nonprofits might hold it? Sure. That time is not now for us.”