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Your wallet and politics: “And I think in a lot of advanced economies, people started feeling, rightly, that they were stuck, that their own standard of living wasn’t improving and that the stratification in their societies was probably more acute. That creates stress, anger, resentment, that I think oftentimes finds expression in populism, both left and right.”
Urban Prep enrolls around 2,000, mostly Black young men at three public charter high schools in “high-need communities” in Chicago, and includes Englewood, Bronzeville and West campuses. Touted as the first public charter high school for boys, Urban Prep premiered in Englewood in 2006 and claims an unbroken streak of every graduate being accepted to a four-year college.
The man, whose identity was not released, was driving southbound on McLean Boulevard near Big Timber Road at a high rate of speed, according to police reports. The vehicle then crossed the Metra train tracks where the man lost control and ended up in the northbound lanes of McLean Boulevard, left the roadway again and struck a traffic gate, police said.
One officer left his unmarked police SUV and called Eaton over for an interview, but she refused and began to run away, prosecutors said. The officer gave chase, and when he was a few feet behind her, she reached back with a gun and fired at the officer while she ran, prosecutors said.
Israel Capistran, 45, was taken into custody Sunday on a charge of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, prosecutors said. When Waukegan police arrested Capistran, he was in his car and during a search of the vehicle, police found a handgun. Authorities lodged additional charges against Capistran for not having a firearm owners identification card, officials said.
Through Sunday, there were 269 homicides in Chicago, a 5% increase over the same time last year when 256 people were slain across the city, according to official Chicago Police Department statistics. But the total number of people shot in the city, non-fatally and fatally, has jumped by double digits over last year.
Harris’ brother pushed her and told her to start running, so she did, Harris said. She was shot twice in the left leg, but if her brother hadn’t pushed her, Harris said she would have been shot in the back. She was taken to Stroger Hospital and later released, and her brother fell to the ground and avoided being shot, Harris said.
Dubois County Coroner Katie Schuck said Dawn R. Jankovic, 47, of Brunswick, Ohio, died Friday night at a Jasper hospital. She was found unconscious earlier that evening when The Voyage roller coaster completed a ride and returned to a station at Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari.
Duckworth, D-Ill., arrived in Taiwan with Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, as part of a larger trip to the region. Although the United States has no formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, a self-governing democracy, it is the island’s most important ally and its main weapons provider. The senators’ visit is likely to go over poorly with China, which claims Taiwan as its territory.
The measure, Senate Bill 1646, which legislators recently passed with bipartisan support, allows longtime teachers who are nearing retirement, and whose salary increases are capped at 6%, to teach summer school, with the additional pension costs to be paid for by the state rather than the school district, Illinois Education Association spokesman Bridget Shanahan said.