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Rachelle Zola, right, comforts her friend Mazell Sykes while Sykes discusses her childhood in Mississippi on Monday, June 14, 2021, outside Cosmopolitan United Church in Melrose Park. Zola began a 40-day all-liquid hunger strike to support H.R. 40, a House bill that would set up a commission to study reparations. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias photographed on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. (E. Jason Wambsgans/ Chicago Tribune)….OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, NEW YORK TIMES OUT, CHICAGO OUT, NO DIGITAL MANIPULATION (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
Broadnax is survived by his wife Valerie; children Wallace II (Dayquinesha) Broadnax of Indianapolis; Parrish Broadnax; Carmelita V. Perry and Edward (Shauntella) Perry all of Gary; two brothers, a sister, an an aunt, 10 grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews other relatives and friends. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, July 2, with family hours from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Guy & Allen Chapel, 2959 W. 11th Ave. Gary. Funeral services will start at 11 a.m. July 3 at First Baptist Church, 626 W. 21st Ave., Gary, with Rev. Dr. Timothy F. Brown officiating. His internment will be at Evergreen Memorial Park.
“Some are still looking for more creative ways to do a show,” said Michael Cartolano, president of Melrose Pyrotechnics of Kingsbury, Indiana. Examples might be to do a drive-up show, or to shoot only high-altitude fireworks than can be seen from a wide surrounding area. Some towns, such as Glencoe, are electing to wait and do Labor Day fireworks instead.
“I know that within an hour or two that we were here, Major League Baseball was already in touch with (general manager) Rick (Hahn) and concerned,” Sox manager Tony La Russa said. “Within minutes after (pitcher Michael) Kopech finished throwing (a simulated game) and Billy Hamilton and Zack (Collins) got maybe eight minutes of swings, it started storming, lightning and thunder. I figured there was no chance.”
click to enlarge A handmade sign advertises the $20 entrance fee. Pride North illegally charged a $20 entrance fee to the festival on Sunday, city officials…
Michael D.V. Carwell, 22, 1900 block of Bayview Lane, has been charged with murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm in connection with the shooting outside the Trilogy Nightclub that killed 23-year-old Khalief McAllister, of Aurora, and left three others wounded, Kane County State’s Attorney’s officials said in a news release.
The Illini and Irish will meet in the Challenge for the third time in seven years when Notre Dame visits the State Farm Center on Nov. 29. The Irish won 84-79 in 2015 in Champaign — the first game in the renovated State Farm Center — and 76-74 in 2018 in South Bend, Ind.
The other person, whose identity has not been released, died at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn and had a gunshot wound to the left arm and into the chest, the medical examiner said. The family had not yet been contacted regarding the death as of Monday morning, according to the medical examiner.
“Had (Durham) won a gold medal in 1984, the sky would have been the limit,” said Jim Schmidt, a creative partner in the Downtown Partners advertising agency. “She would have hopped on the gravy train. No exaggeration, she would have made millions. She was a marketing trifecta: African-American, world-class athlete, woman. There would have been a shoe deal, a beverage deal, cereal … She would have been on TV commentating, maybe her own show, maybe even movies. Certainly a book. Someone like her, there would have been no end to it.”