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The family of murdered Chicago police Officer Thomas Wortham IV, including his mother, Carolyn Wortham, third from right, and sister Sandra Wortham, far right, walk in the Leighton Criminal Court Building lobby during a lunch break Feb. 15, 2022, for the trial of Marcus Floyd, one of three men convicted in Wortham’s killing, who is now undergoing a fitness trial. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
Latino Caucus chair Ald. Gilbert Villegas, shown Dec. 14, is calling on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to select a nominee of Asian descent to finish the term of deposed alderman Patrick Daley Thompson, whose tax fraud conviction Monday forces him off the City Council. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
“It seems to be one branch of government at war with another branch of government, where we should be working together, respecting each other’s processes and working through the process, which you are, on the other hand, in appealing this,” Curran said.
Ramirez faces a primary challenge for the open seat from Chicago Ald. Gilbert Villegas, 36th, a Marine Corps veteran, chair of the City Council’s Latino Caucus and a founding member of the council’s Veterans Caucus. Villegas on Monday received the endorsement of the politically active Unite HERE Local 1 labor organization.
Manager Junella Hutchison checks vaccine cards as diners arrive during brunch at Daley’s restaurant in Woodlawn on Jan. 9. The proof-of-vaccine rule could be in place longer than the city’s indoor mask mandate though neither date has been set. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
A man touches a cross for one of the victims after attending a vigil Feb. 17, 2019, outside the Henry Pratt Co. plant in Aurora, where five people were fatally shot by a disgruntled employee two days earlier. On Tuesday, the three-year anniversary of the mass shooting, Illinois State Police officials said they are continuing to focus on reducing a backlog of FOID card reviews. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
“The response from UIC leaders has been disappointing, disingenuous, and inconsistent with our League values. At the end of the day, our League’s Board of Directors realized that UIC leaders were not going to take any action to restore eligibility for their student-athletes — including by making a simple request to the Missouri Valley Conference to enter in 2023. So our Board chose to exercise their authority to grant the student-athletes an exception to the agreed-upon bylaw.”
Area residents and high school students begin to exit after the Hinsdale Township High School District 86 Board of Education rejects a proposal to make face masks optional in schools, during a board meeting on Feb. 10, 2022. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
The number of tickets sold by Lee through StubHub stood out because it was thousands of times greater than anyone else on the site, according to the affidavit. In 2018 alone, for example, he sold at least 11,000 White Sox tickets on the site — 10,871 more than his closest competitor, the document said.
“I wish it hadn’t come to this. I wish (CPS) had come to the table before that, before the years of litigation and before the expense and before putting the parents through this,” attorney Rafael E. Lázaro said of the settlement for his client. “At the end of the day, I think CPS must realize that things like this, when they happen at their school, there’s a responsibility there. There’s an institutional responsibility.”