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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)
“If he doesn’t have a criminal background that he has to explain, then I think you absolutely put him on,” said Sam Adam Jr., a Chicago attorney also licensed to practice in Wisconsin. “He can explain what was going on in his mind and what he thought would happen to him if he didn’t shoot. It’s not a very hard story to explain, even for a teenager. It’s actually a very easy one.”
Montenegro said last year’s campaign was successful primarily due to people making use of the digital options to donate, even though there may not have been as many people out shopping and passing by the kettles. Last year’s holiday campaign, “Rescue Christmas,” began earlier than ever before, in September, Montenegro said, because the Salvation Army saw about a fivefold increase in people needing help due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
”It was out so bad that the, the app couldn’t do troubleshooting,” he said, adding that he connected to his phone’s hotspot to have access to the internet in the meantime. “I’m currently waiting it out. It’s been in and out all morning.”
In a news conference Monday morning, Brown said the number of officers on no-pay status has fluctuated and is down from about 50 officers at one point The increase means almost 78% of the more than 12,000 department employees, a number that includes sworn officers and civilian employees, has disclosed their vaccination status, Brown said.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker mandates COVID vaccines for teachers, college students and health care workers, and imposes an indoor mask mandate for all, during a news conference at the Thompson Center in Chicago on Aug. 26, 2021. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
Andre Norris, 29, of 1768 Queensbury Circle, was given the maximum 3-year sentence Monday be DuPage Circuit Judge Michael Reidy after Norris pleaded guilty to three counts of felony aggravated cruelty to animals. Per state law, he will not be eligible for parole until he’s served 50% of his term, a state’s attorney’s office news release said.
Over the next three years, five more slayings were allegedly committed on Spann’s orders, according to prosecutors, including a man who’d testified against Spann’s father, rivals believed to be infringing on the Four Corner Hustlers’ lucrative West Side drug turf, and the June 2003 contract murder of Rangel, an aspiring rapper and then-leader of the Latin Kings who was gunned down in a pop-up barber shop.
State legislators approved sportsbooks at big professional stadiums, but Chicago has to lift its ban on sports betting and approve licensing to allow it to move forward and regulate the number of betting kiosks and hours of operation. Burnett’s ordinance would allow sportsbooks at Soldier Field, Wrigley Field, Guaranteed Rate Field, the United Center and Wintrust Arena.
Emergency personnel on the scene of a head-on crash that left eight injured, including a child who was airlifted to a hospital early Sunday afternoon on Route 12 in Fox Lake. Nov. 7, 2021, (Joe Shuman/For The Lake County News-Sun) (Joe Shuman / Pioneer Press)