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Pamela Saul, center right, hugs a fellow mourner at a memorial for 8-year-old Melissa Ortega in the 3900 block of West 26th Street Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, in Chicago. Melissa was fatally shot while walking with her mother on Jan. 22. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
While 40% of the EBF revenue must come from vending machines and prison employee commissaries, data in the IG report shows that prison officials have routinely fallen short of that. In fiscal year 2012, for instance, EBFs reported total revenues of $711,125, and only 25% of that, or $180,127, came from the vending machines and commissaries. For each fiscal year after that through 2017, the vending machine and commissary revenues hovered between 20% and 30%, the data show.
A superseding indictment in the Arroyo case added new wire and mail fraud charges against him and also charged James Weiss with bribery, wire fraud, mail fraud and lying to the FBI. Weiss, who has pleaded not guilty, is married to former Cook County Democratic Chairman Joe Berrios’ daughter, former state Rep. Toni Berrios, D-Chicago.
On Dec. 27, 2001, Berry said he and three friends drove to Country Club Hills, Illinois, in Chicago’s south suburbs, to case a house that they planned to burglarize later. Berry, then a certified HVAC technician, was 20-years-old and married with three children. He often hung around with an older friend, Loree Scott Young, 35. Berry said sometimes Young suggested ways for them to make quick money.
People go to CRED wanting to change for different reasons. But sometimes, even if a person is ready to change, their past might try to catch up with them, the supervisor said. Though there’s always a risk that something like what happened Thursday can happen when participants are at high risk, it doesn’t happen often, he added.
State law calls for expanding the industry to include social equity applicants, defined as people from areas of poverty or that had high arrest rates for cannabis offenses. After more than a year delay in awarding the licenses, and complaints about the unfairness of the process, the state this summer awarded the first 40 craft grower licenses, before the court prohibition took effect, so those are going forward.
“I have been fighting for working people my entire life and am dedicated to social and economic change,” said Jackson, a construction business owner in Bronzeville and a leader in his father’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. “As a businessman, college professor and activist, I have been on the forefront of the struggle for civil and human rights.”
Filbert Elonge, 28, and a still-unidentified male driver were traveling in their vehicle when someone in a white truck shot them both, causing the car to crash into a fixed object and burst into flames, said police and Chicago Fire Chief Curtis Hudson.
Amita continued to perform many elective surgeries throughout this latest surge, though there were more delays in surgeries at some of its larger hospitals, he said. Now, the number of people needing hospitalization because of COVID-19 has dropped significantly enough that, as of Thursday morning, “virtually every site was back to full activity around elective surgery,” he said.
In the ensuing years, Emanuel made a name for himself as a political commentator and Democratic party insider. Then earlier this month, he took a post as ambassador to Japan. His appointment to that office was not without controversy, given his history with the McDonald case, but the Senate confirmed him last month regardless.