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“I was like, ‘Wow, Minnie’s here,’” said Contreras, who was born in Las Martinas, Cuba. “To me, Minnie was a legend. He was one of the reasons I started playing baseball. When I was a kid and people talked about Minnie, to me, it was, ‘I want to be like him.’ Then, when I had the chance to meet him here, it was incredible.”
Among the evidence in that case is a disturbing video that was streamed live on Facebook following the January 2016 murder of a Goonie rival. In the video, about a dozen members of the gang, some as young as 14, wave guns in front of the camera and dance as they taunt the victim, chanting, “How the (expletive) did he get hit?” and “One in the head, no lie.”
A train pulls into the 95th Street CTA Red Line station on Nov. 18, 2021, in Chicago. Mayor Lori Lightfoot hailed President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill, saying it would help expand the CTA Red Line to 130th Street and remove lead service lines. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)
Westside Health Authority Director Rosie Dawson, from left, Ald. Emma Mitts, Rep. La Shawn Ford, Michael Banghart, executive director of Renaissance and Morris Reed, chief executive officer at Westside Health Authority, attend the grand opening of the Renaissance Living Room in Chicago on Nov. 10, 2021. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
The charges also allege that Lee schemed with Darren A. Smith, who operated a medical distribution company in Bolingbrook, to place orders for unnecessary and pricier monthly rentals of equipment from Smith’s company instead of buying the equipment as VA doctors ordered, in exchange for cash payments, federal official said.
A Decatur business executive, Howard Buffett, 66, served as the appointed sheriff of Macon County in central Illinois for a little over a year until November 2018. This spring, he announced he’d run for the job, but ended his campaign shortly afterward, citing changing qualifications written into sweeping criminal justice reforms that were signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker earlier this year.
A custodian mops a hallway at Vaughn Occupational High School, 4355 N Linder Ave., Friday, March 6, 2020, in Chicago. A Chicago Public Schools special education classroom assistant who works at the school has tested presumptively positive for COVID-19, or coronavirus. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
“It should be pretty striking,” said Michelle Nichols, the planetarium’s director of public observing. “It’s a reason to get out and see the sky — and connect to it. People have been observing lunar eclipses for as long as people have been looking up at the sky, and they have tried to ascribe meaning to them. It’s a good excuse to sit back and think about the millennia upon millennia that people have been looking at this same phenomenon, wondering what is that and what does it mean?”
Within 24 hours, the FOP Lodge 7 president went from the brink of an unceremonious firing to announcing he would likely seek the top political office in Chicago, a move that, if it happens, means Catanzara’s opinions on policing and sometimes controversial views on city affairs will likely grow even louder.
Authorities say the youth, who lived on the same block as Yates and her family, came out of his residence firing a rifle at someone on the street at around 9 p.m. on Oct. 17. Yates, police said, was not the intended target of the gunfire, but was hit by a stray bullet.