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Cook County Commissioner Stanley Moore, who opposes an ordinance to change Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day, holds a family photo of his great-great-grandfather, William Alford Trotter, top row, third from right, at the Gerald Griffin Gallery in Chicago on May 28, 2021. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
For this year’s events, the city will also host a qualifying competition, the “Race to Gately” for students in grades five to 12 on June 12, 19 and 26. The race will consist of a 60-meter sprint. On those days, the competition will be held at Lindblom Park, Jackson Park, Lincoln Park at Wilson Avenue and La Follette Park in the mornings, and Dunbar Park, Marshall High School, Brooks High School and Steinmetz High School in the afternoons.
Jeremy Hylka faces five criminal charges in connection with his April 27 visit to a Joliet-area McDonald’s to allegedly meet and solicit someone whom he believed to be an underage boy he met through the internet, according to court documents. The criminal charges include traveling to meet a child, two charges of indecent solicitation, grooming and soliciting to meet a child — all felonies.
The turnaround model involved taking over low-performing public schools, firing and rehiring staff. As AUSL Executive Director Donald Feinstein, a former CPS principal, once wrote in letter published in the Tribune, “When students return to their neighborhood school in the fall, they have a new principal, new teachers, new curriculum and after-school programs, and a new culture of high expectations.”
“Under the timeline for the currently scheduled March 15, 2022, primary, candidates could begin circulating their nominating petitions to appear on the ballot at the end of August, with filing set to begin on Nov. 22. If lawmakers don’t approve a congressional map until sometime in the fall, as expected, that would leave little time to qualify for the ballot under the current timetable.”
It was In Charleston, South Carolina, and the city’s Black residents had already reburied the Union soldiers who had died in a POW camp there. There, on May 1, 1865, three weeks after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, a parade of 10,000, led by 3,000 Black schoolchildren singing a Union marching song, commemorated the soldiers who had given their lives as “martyrs” for the cause of human freedom.
Fiat Chrysler, now owned by Stellantis, said some service and owner’s manuals had the wrong torque specifications for tightening the lug nuts that hold the wheels to the hubs. If the nuts were tightened too much, the wheel studs could be damaged and wheels could come off.
Adbert Alzolay threw 5⅔ shutout innings in unseasonably cold and windy conditions for his third win, allowing five hits while striking out six with three walks. David Bote homered for the only run, and the Cubs bullpen turned in 3⅓ scoreless innings, increasing their franchise-record streak to 38 innings without allowing an earned run.
The city of Chicago in 2016, proclaimed that May 28 was Robert Williams Day in recognition of his work that solidified Chicago as a house music beacon. But by the time Chicago’s house music community got around to honoring Williams, it was 2020 and the city was in the midst of a pandemic. Finally on Friday, from 6 to 9 p.m., fellow house music lovers can come to 610 W. Root St. to sign the official proclamation. But even if you don’t know Williams, you might know this city’s famed dance club the Warehouse.
MOCA budtenders make about $20 an hour, which is above the national average of $15 an hour, according to a 2020 salary guide published by Vangst, a Denver-based cannabis recruiting website. Among the concerns for MOCA employees is that they are no longer able to receive tips and their discount for buying cannabis products has been reduced under Ascend, Glimco said.