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During a news conference Monday at Chicago Police Department headquarters, Brendan Deenihan, chief of detectives, described the video and said the killing stemmed from a “very minor” traffic crash. After that incident, Deenihan said, a group of people approached the vehicle.

Gasoline tankers pass by Colonial Pipeline storage tanks May 10, 2021, in Austell, Georgia. Colonial Pipeline paid cybercriminals a ransom of 75 bitcoin, then valued at roughly $4.4 million, to regain control of its computer system. Some of the funds were later recovered. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com/AJC/TNS)

Some aldermen said the city should sue the men who harassed the women, to try to get them to pay the settlements from their Fire Department pensions. But city attorney Renai Rodney said the city wouldn’t be successful in trying to recover the money, and would only spend more money trying in vain to do so.

First-year New York owner Steve Cohen hired law firm WilmerHale in March to review the organization and detailed changes he’ll make in an email to employees Monday, saying he wanted “to ensure that our community and culture will always be safe, respectful, and inclusive.” The email was obtained by The Associated Press.

Melody Billups, from left, and recent Homewood-Flossmoor High School graduates, Syncere Billups and Carrington Valentine and other family members are opening Breaking Point rage room. “We decided to do it in Homewood because we all live here,” Melody Billups said. “It’s a family business.” (Bill Jones / Daily Southtown)

There were 37 flight delays at O’Hare between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday, while Midway Airport had 10 delays and three cancellations, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, which is grappling with active thunderstorms, topped the so-called MiseryMap with 63 delays and 12 cancellations Monday afternoon.

American and other airlines have had trouble matching their desire to offer flights with their ability to assemble crews, although it expects to complete training for furloughed pilots by the end of June. The airline said it dropped flights in markets that have other options for passengers and is working to make schedule changes in advance of travelers’ departure dates.

Then, after more than a year of dialing in, the physical office, in all its fluorescence, began to beckon. After a heat wave in the Northeast and triple-digit temperatures in the West, some employees started to wonder if the grass might be greener — or, at least, the cubicle cooler — on the other side.

“Racial justice is a term that’s thrown around these days’ there’s an understanding that it needs to be said, but there’s a lack of an understanding of how it is done,” Power said. “What I’m so proud of is operationalizing that work, pushing the boundaries of philanthropy to fund individuals, and for profit media organizations, creating so many partnerships with the MacArthur Foundation, with the Democracy Fund, and the Chicago Community Trust. “Beyond funding partnerships, I see myself as a notorious collaborator. In many ways, I feel that, while Field Foundation has been extremely important, the walls fell away from Field, and I feel like I worked as an ensemble member with people across the city on these issues that are so important. That’s really what I carry with me. Legacy is such a heavy word, who knows what that will be but what I carry with me are those pieces.”

click to enlarge Urban Growers Collective, a Black- and women-run nonprofit, is one of the groups working to create food equity in the city. Adam M.…