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The Law Department was unsuccessful in preventing the news station from airing the story, which ran in mid-December 2020, sending shock waves through City Hall. It prompted police Superintendent David Brown, who was not leading CPD at the time of the raid, to revamp the Police Department’s search warrant protocols.
Members of Fraternal Order of Police and supporters rally outside of City Hall Oct 25. After a judge’s ruling that the city must arbitrate the vaccine deadline for city workers with the FOP, nearly two-dozen other unions have now filed their own legal challenge. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
Prosecutors said numerous dogs in Mercado’s care had been mistreated, suffering puncture wounds, lacerations, abrasions, weight loss, muscle wasting and dehydration. They added that kennel runs were unsanitary, that dogs were kept in cages that were too small and stacked upon each other, and that one dog was tethered to a bar in a bathtub.
“With our partners in the General Assembly we’ve made tremendous progress in putting Illinois on the right fiscal path, supporting small businesses, and creating good jobs in every part of our state,” Pritzker said in a statement Tuesday. “I am committed to building on this significant progress while tackling our remaining fiscal challenges.”
Sun Ng, 71, who came to the U.S. from Hong Kong to celebrate his granddaughter’s first birthday, contracted a case of COVID-19 so severe that in mid-October he ended up on a ventilator at Edward Hospital in Naperville, according to a complaint filed by his daughter, Man Kwan Ng.
“I am writing to inform you of the tragic news that shortly before 2 p.m. today, a recent graduate of the University was shot and killed off-campus near the intersection of E. 54th Place and Ellis Avenue. We are working with the Chicago Police Department to gather more facts about the case, and the University of Chicago Police Department is immediately increasing patrols near campus. While we have not had any indication that this is an active incident, we encourage you to be vigilant and exercise caution.”
The defense disputed this claim by calling Nick Smith, who used to work at the car lot and told Rittenhouse, a friend of a friend, about plans to guard the property. He testified the owners’ sons specifically asked for help, took pictures with the guards and promised to pay them for their efforts. However, no one ever received payment, Smith said.
As cars streamed past on Schoolhouse Road, Donegan, wearing a T-shirt that featured an image of her daughter, shouted chilling statistics into a megaphone — that 2 out of every 5 fake pills tested by the DEA contain a lethal amount of fentanyl, and that a record 93,000 people died of drug overdoses last year.
According to a federal complaint, agents saw the private plane, a Bombardier CL-600, land at Gary/Chicago International Airport in Indiana Nov. 3. As first reported by the crime blog CWB Chicago, the agents watched as Vazquez-Gamez and others helped an airport employee unload suitcases from the plane. The suitcases appeared to be “significantly weighed down,” the complaint contends.
Attendees take their seats at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium on Nov. 3, 2021, during the Black and Brown Dialogue. It is a series of events hosted by the Mexican General Consulate where Black and Latino leaders are engaging in activities to create an agenda to work in unity to push for policies that benefit both communities. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)