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In an image from video released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, a man is shot and killed by a Chicago police officer responding to a domestic disturbance at an apartment on Oct. 4, 2021, in the 7800 block of South Carpenter Street. (COPA)

“(His) conduct on January 6, like the conduct of scores of other defendants, took place in the context of a large and violent riot that relied on numbers to overwhelm law enforcement, breach the Capitol, and disrupt the proceedings,” they said. “But for his actions alongside so many others, the riot likely would have failed.”

Chicago women of Czechoslovakia ancestry in native costumes to protest meeting. About 65,000 gathered for the affair on Sept. 25, 1938. “Sixty-five thousand persons gathered in and near the Chicago Stadium yesterday to cheer predictions that Czechoslovakia will not fall victim to Nazi aggression,” wrote the Tribune on Sept. 26, 1938. “The meeting, arranged by several Czecho-slovak societies of Chicago, was preceded by three parades in which several thousand, many in native costumes, participated,” (Chicago Tribune historical photo)

“How dare Michael treat us that way after everything we did for him and his precious brand,” Pippen writes, adding, “To make things worse, Michael received $10 million for his role in the doc while my teammates and I didn’t earn a dime.” (Pippen and several Bulls players appeared on camera for the documentary. It has not been publicly disclosed how much Jordan, whose company Jump 23 was part of the project, made for the series.)

The new 35,000-square-foot Amazon Fresh grocery store opens Thursday in Westmont. It’s Amazon’s fifth in Illinois and the third nationwide to use the “just walk out” technology, which uses cameras and other sensors to track items as customers pick them up and add them to a virtual shopping cart.

Latosha Barnes-Henderson, center, her husband Kevin Henderson and Darlene Morris, their real estate agent, examine the basement stairs on Nov. 3, 2021, at their final walkthrough before closing on their Country Club Hills home. (Andrew Burke-Stevenson / Chicago Tribune)

In all, more than 100 Watts-related convictions have been tossed out. Attorneys for the accusers have been presenting potentially eligible cases to Cook County prosecutors for their review, and until this year, petitioners’ attorneys and prosecutors had presented a largely united public front. The most recent “mass exoneration,” clearing out nine cases, was in February of this year.

Blake, who is Black, was shot in the back several times by a white police officer in August 2020, sparking protests and often-violent unrest in the city. Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from north suburban Antioch, traveled across state lines to volunteer as an armed guard amid the chaos and ended up shooting three men, killing two of them.

“(There’s) a lot you can say about him as a player and how talented he was, how natural he was, but even how hard he worked beyond that natural ability,” Toews said. “You talk about the generational talent that you only see every 10 years, I feel he’s right on the edge of that, if not (that).

A Sotheby’s employee holds a pair of Nike sneakers of worn in game by former NBA player Kobe Bryant, estimated to sell between 25’000 – 35’000 Swiss francs, during a preview at Sotheby’s before auction sale, in Geneva, Switzerland, on Nov. 2, 2021. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/AP)