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By the time he died, S.B. Fuller had amassed a fortune, lost millions, gained some of it back, and helped a lot of other Black owned businesses along the way. At his funeral, attended by Haymore as well as luminaries such as Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, Gov. Jim Thompson and even Donald Rumsfeld representing the White House, Johnson Publishing Co. founder John H. Johnson “got up and said ‘if it hadn’t been for this man here, I wouldn’t be the man I am today,’” Haymore said. “A lot of wealthy Black men know they owe everything to Mr. Fuller. He was incredible.”

The fall 2020 emails, released to the Tribune under an open records request, offer a window into the extent to which Lightfoot hoped to stop the public from learning details of the behind-the-scenes debate over General Iron’s attempted move from a wealthy, largely white Lincoln Park neighborhood to a lower-income, predominantly Latino one on the Southeast Side.

For several years, Preckwinkle lived in and was registered to vote in the Kenwood condo, which is in a three-story, vintage building on South Woodlawn Avenue that was built in the late 1920s and that is located just one block east of former President Barack Obama’s mansion. Preckwinkle, her then-husband Zeus and her daughter bought the condo together in 2013 for just $72,500. Preckwinkle’s ex-husband deeded his share in the unit to Preckwinkle in late 2013, and then Preckwinkle and her daughter sold the condo last year for $240,000 in an off-market transaction.

Built in 2001 and located in the Hunters Farm area of Fox River Grove, the house has 3-1/2 baths, a two-story foyer with double princess balconies on the second floor, chair rail in both the living and dining rooms, a kitchen with stainless steel appliances and a granite center island, a first-floor home office, a family room with a fireplace, a primary bedroom suite with double sinks and dual walk-in closets, an unfinished English basement and an attached, three-car garage.

The move comes as Wisconsin-based Kohl’s, which has 66 stores in Illinois alone, has received multiple buyout offers in recent weeks. Private equity firm Sycamore Partners had reportedly approached Kohl’s about a potential deal last month. A group called Acacia Research, backed by activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP, bid $64 per share, or about $9 billion.

Marriott human resources recruiter Mariela Cuevas, left, talks to Lisbet Oliveros, during a job fair at Hard Rock Stadium, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Last month, U.S. employers might have shed jobs for the first time in about a year, potentially raising alarms about the economy’s trajectory. Yet even if the January employment report coming Friday, Feb. 3, 2022, were to show a deep loss of jobs, there would be little mystery about the likely culprit: A wave of omicron wave of infections that led millions of workers to stay home sick, discouraged consumers from venturing out to spend and likely froze hiring at many companies — even those that want to fill jobs. (Marta Lavandier/AP)

The 35-room brick mansion at 40 E. Burton Place was built between 1909 and 1911 by architect Richard E. Schmidt of the Schmidt, Garden and Martin architectural firm. The mansion was built for John L. Shortall, and it was later owned by William G. Beale and then by Gladys Netcher before it was purchased by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America for $200,000 in 1962.

She alleges she didn’t realize they had tested her urine for drugs until two days later, shortly before her labor was induced, at which point an obstetrician told her she had tested positive for opiates. The woman said she told nurses and doctors that she had not taken any drugs, and the only possible explanation was that it was a false positive because, the day she was tested and the day before, she had eaten makoweic, a poppy seed cake that’s a traditional Polish Easter dessert.

Facebook employees take a photo with the company’s new name and logo outside its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Oct. 28, 2021. Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, saw its stock plunge after-hours Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, after reporting a rare decline in its fourth quarter profit due to a sharp increase in expenses. (Tony Avelar/AP)

Marriott human resources recruiter Mariela Cuevas, left, talks to Lisbet Oliveros, during a job fair at Hard Rock Stadium, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Last month, U.S. employers might have shed jobs for the first time in about a year, potentially raising alarms about the economy’s trajectory. Yet even if the January employment report coming Friday, Feb. 3, 2022, were to show a deep loss of jobs, there would be little mystery about the likely culprit: A wave of omicron wave of infections that led millions of workers to stay home sick, discouraged consumers from venturing out to spend and likely froze hiring at many companies — even those that want to fill jobs. (Marta Lavandier/AP)