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“We are completing our diligence, collecting data, and conducting site-specific analysis to ensure that each applicable ash pond unit is appropriately closed in a manner that is protective of the environment and health of the community,” Meranda Cohn, a Vistra spokeswoman, said in a statement.
* Also in Bronzeville, around 9:48 p.m., a 43-year-old man and his dog were both shot while they were in front of their home in the 4600 block of South Drexel Boulevard. The man suffered a graze wound to his hand, and was treated at the scene. Additional details — including the type of dog, where it was struck or the dog’s condition — were not available Sunday, a police spokesman said in an email. The gunman had fired the shots from an open rear door of a black Nissan Maxima, which fled north on Drexel.
Hobart Police Capt. James M. Gonzales said a witness told police the man entered the bank about 11:25 a.m. and gave the teller a note and displayed a pistol, tucked in his waistband. The teller gave the man, who wore a black mask, baseball cap and hoodie, an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.
A CPD veteran of about 20 years, Alderden is a recipient of the Carter Harrison award, one of the city’s two highest honors for first responders, for his response to a November 2018 shooting at Mercy Hospital & Medical Center that claimed the lives of pharmacist Dayna Less, Dr. Tamara O’Neal and Chicago police Officer Samuel Jimenez.
In another fatal shooting, shortly before 9 p.m. Friday, a 20-year-old woman was killed while she was a passenger of a vehicle in the Gage Park neighborhood in the 4700 block of South Rockwell Street. The woman was with her boyfriend when someone approached on foot and yelled gang slogans before opening fire. She was struck in the neck and left hand, and was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said.
Ignacio Martinez, left, and wife Gabriela Pedroza sit and talk along with their dog, Ty, on June 11, 2021, outside the Jumping Bean Cafe in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood as Chicago and Illinois drop COVID-19 restrictions. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
In addition to the June 1, 2020, incident at the Egg Harbor Cafe at 175 W. Jackson St., Vargas also admitted in the plea that earlier the same night he used a baseball bat to strike an Aurora bank’s ATM and attempted to pry it open with a metal street sign pole, the release said.
Bakalis, who is now retired, ruled that Webber “clearly” had a mental illness, borderline personality disorder, but no longer posed a threat. The judge ruled that Webber needed treatment but wouldn’t get that in state custody, due both to her fault and that of the state, for failing to implement a transition program where she could be observed outside a secured environment.
“I think when people see that the downtown is fully reopened, and I’m seeing it now, there’s an uptick in the number of people taking the trains now, traffic is definitely back up. I think there’s a real hunger to be back together,” Lightfoot said during an appearance on WGN-TV. “Just as we’re seeing people really excited to be in restaurants, music venues, and just outdoors, we’re going to see people wanting to come back downtown to work.”
Horvat and his colleague, Assistant State’s Attorney Paul Fangman, were acting as civil attorneys, they argued. As members of the office’s Civil Actions Bureau, they were not prosecutors in the traditional sense, Assistant State’s Attorney Amy Crawford said, and Horvat had no idea about Trutenko’s relationship with the witness until the night before the testimony.