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Kari Anne Bakker, of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, stretches with others while taking an intermediate/advanced roller skating class with teacher Myesha McCaskill. Bakker was traveling to the U.S. for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic to visit roller skating communities in Chicago, New York and Atlanta. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)

In 2018, a political reform group complained Wilson violated state election law when he gave away more than $200,000 at a South Side church, but he was cleared by state officials who found that he did not violate state law despite mistakenly broadcasting his charitable foundation’s money giveaway on a campaign Facebook page, among other issues.

State Rep. Delia Ramirez, 4th District, left, and Lillian Jimenez watch as volunteers teach how to canvass before heading out to Chicago’s Belmont Cragin neighborhood on April 2, 2022. Ramirez is running for the Illinois 3rd District for the U.S. House of Representatives and Jimenez is running for the Illinois House of Representatives 4th District. (Trent Sprague/for the Chicago Tribune)