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“What we want to do is rethink the role of police. Having them focus on the violence, having them focus on homicides and shootings, trying to prevent the next one, trying to solve the one that just happened, that’s the best use of their time and energy,” Duncan said.
Melissa was a student in the third grade at Emiliano Zapata Academy. She and her family had just moved to Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood last August from her hometown of Los Sauces, in the Mexican state of Tabasco, where she is expected to be buried, according to information from a verified GoFundMe account.
During a Tuesday hearing, Newton County Circuit Court Judge Jeryl Leach, who is presiding over the case, approved a 3-day jury trial starting April 11, with a pretrial hearing set for March 7. Paul Stracci, one of Martinez’s attorneys, requested a trial date as early as possible because Martinez is on the May primary ballot seeking reelection.
“Every time a charter school is up for renewal, it has to submit literally hundreds of pages of documentation to CPS and go through a monthslong process. So when you’re doing that every two years, like Montessori School of Englewood will have to do, it really limits their ability to focus on academic improvement,” Broy said.
Travis Reinking at a hearing in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2018. Jury selection is set to begin Jan. 25, 2022, in the murder trial of Reinking, who killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in April 2018 and led police on a two-day manhunt. (Mark Humphrey/AP)
Scott Comstock of Milk & Honey Farmstead in Wauconda said that the bison, dubbed Billy by some of her fans, has been staying close to the farm in a forest preserve, and he has been able to see her daily, sometimes from as close as 10 feet away. Using food, he is encouraging the wily 950-pound bovine to walk in and out of an enclosure he built for her capture.
Through a Freedom of Information Act request, the Tribune determined that about 40 of the district-run schools were below the 10% sign-up threshold as CTU prepared to vote on the safety agreement in mid-January. A few schools, such as Mildred I. Lavizzo Elementary School in the Roseland neighborhood and Mount Greenwood Elementary School, had fewer than 2.5% of students registered for testing at the time, according to CPS data.
Prosecutors said Lathem and his co-defendant, Andrew Warren, had made a suicidal pact to kill each other, but instead killed Cornell. And whatever the motive, they said, the physical evidence pointed to Lathem having an active role in the slaying. He also sent a video to his parents in the days after the stabbing saying, “I killed him,” and that it was not an accident.
Students depart Oriole Park School on Jan. 25, 2022, in Chicago. In a recent letter to parents, Oriole school officials said based on the new guidance, “students with a documented COVID case within the last 90 days are exempt from remote learning.” (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
Pritzker, a Democrat whose reelection campaign this year will face tough questions over his administration’s handling of a deadly 2020 coronavirus outbreak at a state-run veterans home in LaSalle, did not sign or veto the proposal within 60 days after it reached his desk, meaning it automatically becomes law.