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“We can’t have a school board that’s more than twice as large as the largest school board in the country. That just doesn’t make sense,” said current Board of Education President Miguel del Valle, the only candidate in the city’s 2011 mayoral race to back an elected school board. “Down the road, I could see dysfunction, I could see lots of problems, I can see stalemates, I can see all kinds of issues here.”
“Fundamentally, I go back to what puts us in the best position to win ballgames and are we being able to execute on that, and that’s what the clubhouse has been completely unified and focused on,” Hahn said “I know there’s been other noise and distractions, understandably so, especially with the injuries, but they’ve been great in terms of remaining focused on the matter at hand and winning the ballgame. If something happens, they are able to turn the page pretty quickly.”
“Throughout the years, it has become abundantly clear through community discussions, enrollment trends, census data, parish data and the great faith of our community that there is an urgent need for an expansion of Catholic education on the West Side of Chicago’s vibrant Little Village neighborhood,” said Scott Ernst, principal of Epiphany.
Four adults, including Houle, his son and two friends, were in the home on Kara Court at the time of the fire. Houle’s son’s friend heard the smoke detector going off and alerted others, fire officials said. Janozik said someone in the home tried to put out the fire, but were unable to control the blaze.
Ross didn’t acquiesce to Rizzo’s request, but the Cubs slugger was back in the lineup Tuesday night after being sidelined the previous six games because of lower back tightness. The Cubs went 5-1 during Rizzo’s absence, aided by Kris Bryant’s versatility and ability to play first base and call-ups Patrick Wisdom and Rafael Ortega complementing a lineup that has found a groove since its early season slump.
The terms of Blagojevich’s supervised release period, originally imposed by U.S. District Judge James Zagel, were standard, including not committing any new crimes, not leaving the jurisdiction without permission, and checking in periodically with a probation officer, court records show.
Indeed, “(s)trains between the Democratic-controlled House and Senate, under two new leaders, were evident when the House (under Emanuel ‘Chris’ Welch) indicated its work for the spring session was largely finished and members headed home. The Senate, under President Don Harmon of Oak Park, planned to return to work later Tuesday and assess an unfinished legislative landscape,” the Tribune’s Rick Pearson, Dan Petrella and Bill Ruthhart write.
COPA spokesman Ephraim Eaddy, however, said the 17-year-old’s family would be able to obtain the video under Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s new executive order that went into effect in March, allowing alleged victims of police abuse to review video evidence in their cases. But as of Tuesday morning, Eaddy said COPA has not received word of such a request.
The next day at the warehouse, authorities executed a search warrant and said they found approximately 40 pallets of vacuum-sealed cannabis weighing 7,688 pounds, 406 pounds of cannabis edibles, 6,891 THC vaping cartridges and more than 700 grams of psilocybin mushroom bars.
In fact, the brief cites the case against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who famously argued that his efforts to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama in 2008 were not tied directly to any campaign donations, jobs or other things of value, and therefore did not constitute a bribe.