Author: staff
Gladys Simpson, founder of the Academy of Scholastic Achievement, a West Side charter school that is also one of the event’s community partners, said Juneteenth gives everyone, especially the young, the opportunity to come together and acknowledge a shared history.
The main organizer, T.J. Crawford, 45, says the event was shared on Facebook, and nearly 1,500 people agreed to participate in the ride along between the Near West Side of Chicago from Malcom X College, through downtown and ending in Pullman at the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum.
The weekend night rule is an outdated part of the city ordinance on lights put in place in 1988. Wrigleyville residents didn’t want to have to search for parking when they got home from work on a Friday night, and the Cubs were willing to agree to the provision to allow lights for the first time in the ballpark’s history.
At 3:15 a.m. Nov. 1, 2019, officers responded to a call of a person shot at the white-stoned home in the 6200 block of South Morgan Street on the South Side, according to a Chicago police report included in a city complaint filing against the building’s owner. Officers found a 26-year-old man lying on the kitchen floor in his own blood with gunshot wounds throughout his body, telling the officers, “Get me some help.”
As the body was removed from the building around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, wails of grief rose from the people gathered behind police tape. The body was placed in a van and as it drove off one man shouted, “We love you, boy!” Another man ran behind the van, his hands in the air as if to wave goodbye or, possibly, to try to hold onto the victim a little longer.
As a die-hard suburbanite, though, I’d kind of love it. After years of being told our quarter-acre lots and oceans of free parking will be irrelevant in the high-density, Uber-ized future, this turnabout would feel like sweet payback. Sure, the traffic would be godawful and taxpayers undoubtedly would be stuck with a huge chunk of the tab, but those are worries for another day.
The three were in a vehicle westbound in the 2800 block of West 79th Street in the Ashburn neighborhood when a car, possibly a burgundy Dodge Durango, came alongside, police said. Several shots were fired from the vehicle thought to be a Durango, which fled.
The Chicago Fire released a new logo — formally ditching the “Fire Crown” badge — after the redesigned crest leaks on social media on Friday, June 18, 2021. The new logo, designed by Matthew Wolff, will be worn starting with the 2022 season. (Chicago Fire FC)
That same month, according to TSN, senior management held a meeting that included then-Blackhawks President John McDonough, general manager Stan Bowman, vice president of hockey operations Al MacIsaac and Gary. The report states that then-skills coach Paul Vincent told team executives two players had accused Aldrich of sexual assault and requested they contact the sex crimes division of the Chicago police, and that the request was denied.
Ivoryana Neal, 18, stands with her friend Danaria Keys, 17, in the cafeteria at Proviso Township Math and Science Academy in Forest Park on June 17, 2021. Both students served in a committee that created a history course on Black studies. Neal is headed to Spellman College this fall, while Keys will start her senior year. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)