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The final witness for the prosecution on Thursday, IRS Agent Haydee Gonzalez, testified that Thompson should not have claimed tens of thousands of dollars in mortgage-interest deductions in his tax returns because he’d never made payments on $219,000 in debt he had at Washington Federal Bank for Savings, which was shut down by federal regulators in December 2017.
“We have to work long-term on how we address this teacher shortage, how we attract and recruit and retain (teachers),” state Sen. Robert Martwick, a Chicago Democrat and one of the bill’s sponsors, said in an interview. “But in the short-term, we’ve got to do something, now, to get teachers into the classroom.”
A southbound train hit a vehicle near the Lake Cook Road train station in Deerfield, near the 600 block of Lake Cook Road, Northbrook Fire Chief Andy Carlson said. There was no vehicle crossing near where the car was hit, and it’s unclear why they were on the tracks, Carlson said.
Wynne Lacey, a mental health professional, has lived in Oak Park since 2005. She is also a member of the Oak Park Board of Health, which advises the village’s public health department. She has not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and said she has no intention of doing so. (Chicago Tribune / Chicago Tribune)
Rish was convicted of helping with the plot hatched by Edwards, a small-time Kankakee drug dealer, to kidnap Small, the 40-year-old heir to a local media fortune. Edwards took him to a rural area and buried him in a 6-by-3-foot wooden box outfitted with an air pipe, but Small suffocated. Edwards made calls from pay phones to demand money, and police used call-tracing devices and surveillance to nab Edwards and Rish days after the kidnapping.
After Holt was taken out of the house, police said, they found Davis in an upstairs bedroom, armed with knives and refusing to surrender. They tried unsuccessfully to disable him with an electric Taser shock, then called in a SWAT team through the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System, or NIPAS, which was able to Taser Davis and arrest him, Parrott said.
“Claims that kids need ‘make-up time’ as a response to the pandemic instability may come from good intentions, but just don’t make sense,” the petition states. “There is no evidence that simply adding days changes potential ‘learning loss,’ and an earlier school start will further weaken the already ailing tourism and hospitality industries.”
“I can only imagine the trauma to the hearts and minds of residents up and down the block that day as they took cover in their own homes. Our homes are supposed to be safe places. Places of refugee, peace, not fear and violence,” Brown said. “There was no rhyme or reason for a gunfight in broad daylight, and every resident deserves better.”
In bond court Thursday, a lawyer for Villegas, Irena Stefanovski, described him as a father of a 15-year-old and two adult children, including one who is a Chicago police officer. Villegas’ wife offered to post $1,000 for the officer’s release, but Judge Barbara Dawkins said the amount was too low considering the couple also own a restaurant.
Around May 2019, Harris traveled from Texas to Florida with the intention of engaging in sexual conduct with another minor, who was 15 years old, according to the plea agreement. Before taking a flight from Dallas to Orlando on May 2, Harris, who was 19 at the time, planned to meet the 15-year-old minor in Orlando for illegal activity.