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Additional statistics posted on the city of Chicago data portal also showed declines in the number of shooting victims, including in some of the city’s least safe communities, such as Austin, Englewood, Greater Grand Crossing and North Lawndale. Overall, the number of people killed in shootings was down 11% and the number of injured was down 16%.
A 33-year-old man suffered a wound to the right arm, and a second man, 34, suffered a wound to the buttocks. The third man, 47, suffered gunshot wounds to the body and was listed in critical condition at Stroger Hospital where all three men were taken for treatment, police said.
One positive, Campbell said, is that the Carey family, which runs Hawthorne, cares about the racing industry in Illinois. That is in contrast, he said, to Churchill Downs Inc., which closed Arlington after announcing a preliminary deal to sell the site to the Chicago Bears for a potential new football stadium.
Pasin said in a YouTube video posted earlier this week that after police closed the investigation, she emailed the school in December detailing the allegations. While she got a response within a few days, she said she was unhappy with the lawyer the school chose to investigate. She later agreed to an interview, but the school “ghosted” her for two months until last week, she said. At that point she was no longer willing to sit for an interview, and she posted the video as an “absolute last resort,” she said.
Cook County Judge Ellen Beth Mandeltort oversaw the hearing on Friday for Jose G. Matias, who was charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, according to court records and Rosemont police.
He was booked into the jail Feb. 15, and on the Glenwood case is next due to appear at the Markham courthouse April 14, according to jail records. Separately, Tucker has a May 13 court date on his initial booking charge at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building.
A worker inside a shipping container outfitted as a COVID-19 testing facility waits for drive-up appointments in a parking lot at Esperanza Health Centers medical clinic in the 4700 block of South California Avenue, March 30, 2022, in Chicago. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
Prosecutors said on the morning of April 26, 2018, Carlos Nunez was in a “jealous rage” at his wife Jovita, 55, believing she was unfaithful to him. While she slept in an upstairs bedroom, he retrieved a hammer from the garage and struck his wife in the head multiple times, officials said.
Madigan, 79, and McClain, 74, were charged last month in a 22-count indictment alleging they conspired to participate an array of bribery and extortion schemes from 2011 to 2019, including a plot to steer payments from Commonwealth Edison to member of Madigan’s vast political operation in exchange for the speaker’s help with legislation in Springfield.
The woman, her daughter and the child were on a sidewalk in the 3100 block of North Broadway about 1:35 p.m. when the daughter heard what she thought was a car backfiring and saw her mother, who was shot, fall to the ground, according to a Chicago police report.