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Tate, 27, was drunk in the bowling alley’s bathroom when a 42-year-old man tried to go into the men’s room, Kathryn Morrissey, a Cook County assistant state’s attorney, said at the virtual hearing at the Markham courthouse. Tate blocked him because Tate’s sister was in the bathroom, Morrissey said.
The 59-page indictment outlined a series of schemes in which Burke allegedly tried to muscle developers into hiring his law firm, Klafter & Burke, to appeal their property taxes. Among the projects Burke tried to capitalize on was the massive $800 million renovation of the post office in the West Loop, according to the charges.
Patrick Daley Thompson, an 11th Ward aldermanic candidate at the time, reacts as he sees his live image on a TV screen while giving a speech on April 7, 2015, to supporters at Laborer’s Union Hall in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)
The funding, which comes from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan President Joe Biden signed into law in November, is just a portion of the roughly $17 billion the state is expected to receive from the overall package. It should provide a boost to a state that has more than 2,300 bridges rated in “poor” condition, according to federal data, the third-largest total among all 50 states.
But it is the timing of Bailey’s most recent PPP loan that prompts questions. Bailey announced his candidacy for governor on Feb. 22, four days before he received the second PPP loan for his farming operation, and exactly one month before he loaned his campaign $150,000. Usually, candidates give money to their campaigns at the same time they announce to demonstrate financial wherewithal for the campaign ahead.
Over prosecutors’ objections, DuPage County Judge Michael Reidy allowed Berrier to go to Brust Funeral Home in Lombard, interment at Arlington Cemetery in Elmhurst, and to a family lunch, while monitored by an electronic tracking device, court documents show. He was to return to DuPage County Jail by 2 p.m., but authorities said he didn’t.
Judge Robert Adrian presides over court on Aug. 26, 2020, in Adams County, Ill. Adrian, who found an 18-year-old man guilty of sexual assaulting a 16-year-old girl, has come under fire after he later threw out the conviction this month, saying the 148 days the man spent in jail was punishment enough. (Jake Shane/Quincy Herald-Whig)
Casey Gallagher, 10, raises her hand in math class at St. Benedict Catholic School on Jan. 12, 2022, on Chicago’s North Side. The Archdiocese of Chicago’s elementary and high schools were busy fielding phone calls from parents this week, frustrated by the latest Chicago Public Schools versus Chicago Teachers Union standoff, hoping to enroll their children in one of the city’s Catholic schools. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)
Dr. Justin Fiala, assistant professor of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, works on an oil painting depicting hospital employees in scrubs riding a bus to work in his art studio on Jan. 9, 2022, in Chicago. Fiala has been working on the paining for two months and anticipates the painting to take at least two more months to complete. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
From center, Justice Jones looks up while releasing balloons during a vigil, April 19, 2021, for 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams who was fatally shot six times in a vehicle while sitting in a McDonald’s restaurant drive-thru in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)