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At Wednesday’s Board of Commissioners meeting, Juanita Irizarry, the executive director of Friends of the Parks, said the group applauded Lightfoot’s call that led to Kelly’s resignation but added that the agency’s Board of Commissioners had also not responded to the abuse scandal, among other issues, “with adequate urgency or sense that you are accountable to all Chicagoans for these things.”
“I wouldn’t say nerves,” said Jones, speaking for himself and perhaps for the team as well. “There’s expectation, of course. There’s expectation in all sports, no matter what position you’re in. I obviously put a lot of expectation on myself as well. Whatever the fans, the organization or the media is putting on me, I’m putting just as much or even more.”
Much has changed since then, however. For one, Spann, 44, is now standing trial on federal racketeering charges, rather than a simple murder count in state court. The Rangel killing is just one piece of an extensive indictment that places him at the head of the Four Corner Hustlers, which prosecutors say controlled the West Side drug trade by robbing competitors, killing rivals and terrorizing the community.
Chicago Bears kicker Cairo Santos (2) makes a field goal in the fourth quarter against the Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. The Bears beat the Raiders 20-9. (Jose M. Osorio/ Chicago Tribune) (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
It is absolutely a common and often beneficial practice to “run information past sources” before publishing a story. And while the obsequious tone of the email is off-putting, some of it is clearly joking, and the rest can be chalked up to source-building. But sending a full draft to a source before your employer, and framing it all as fair game? That is far beyond normal practice, and a revealing look at how NFL scoops are driven by front offices.
The proposed $900 million budget projects $146.4 million from fares, $458.8 million in sales tax revenues and $202 million in previously allocated federal relief funds. Metra is requesting an additional $92.8 million from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan from the Regional Transportation Authority, which is distributing the funds, Ochab said.
Regarding the MacArthur report, the ShotSpotter spokesperson said it “draws erroneous conclusions from researchers’ interpretation of police report categorizations, falsely equating them with no shots fired,” and that a separate review found the report relied on “deeply flawed analyses of incomplete data that the Center clearly did not understand or ignored.”
John Catanzara, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, addresses attendees as Mayor Lori Lightfoot looks on during the unveiling of names for five Chicago police officers at the Gold Star Families Memorial and Park on Sept. 9, 2021. Four of the officers died of COVID-19 symptoms in 2020, and Officer Ella French was fatally shot on Aug. 7. during a traffic stop while on patrol. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
But as envisioned, it would include service in at least a dozen new cities including Columbus, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Indiana and Madison, Wisconsin. It calls for a new route from Chicago to the Quad Cities, extending on to Des Moines, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska. Another new route could connect a train line out of Dallas to Wichita, Kansas, and on to Chicago, said Laura Kliewer, director of the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission.
Officers were called to the 1000 block of North California Avenue in Humboldt Park around 7:25 p.m. Tuesday, near Humboldt Park Health, also known as Norwegian American Hospital. A city ambulance was taken, allegedly by a 33-year-old woman, according to Chicago police.