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For years, Lee, 35, owner of Chicago-based brokerage Great Tickets, would pass Costello an envelope full of cash, and Costello would pass back an envelope of tickets that, using insider knowledge, he had fraudulently procured for free or at a heavy discount. Lee would then sell the tickets on the online resale forum StubHub, prosecutors said.
The board “has followed the disciplinary process laid out in rule for both private and public schools,” she said in a statement. “Compliance with the state’s mask mandate helps keep students and teachers safe, aids in the reduction of community transmission of COVID-19, and positions schools — both nonpublic and public — to avoid the consequences of failing to adhere to public health requirements.”
Usually by this point in the fall, many Chicagoans have already taken out heavier jackets and gloves to get through the morning commute. But so far this year, those mornings have been comparatively mild. According to the National Weather Service, this September will go down as one of only four on record without a low temperature below 50 degrees.
Her attorney, Carmen Caruso, included as exhibits in the new defamation suit written declarations from Mori and her husband, Mike, both signed Thursday, regarding the alleged Christmas party incident in 2003. The Ohio woman said in her declaration that she reached out to Caruso after reading the Tribune’s story about the first lawsuit. She did not file a suit of her own.
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After Garcia began investigating the overtime issue in early 2020, Thornley, who had worked on Pritzker’s 2018 campaign, raised allegations that he had sexually harassed and abused her in emails she sent to top Pritzker administration officials and in a text to the governor’s wife, M.K. Pritzker, according to filings in a separate federal court case. Garcia has denied the allegations.
“We’ve made a lot of progress in terms of criminal justice reform,” Preckwinkle said. “When I came into office, there were 11,000 people in the jail, including people who were detained because they could not pay even modest cash bonds for nonviolent offenses — drug offenses, shoplifting, not paying your child support, traffic offenses. The jail population is now, even in this moment of crisis, down to about 6,000.”
The payments, gifts, and other benefits continued even well after Kelly’s 2008 acquittal, according to the indictment. As recently as October 2015, Kelly was still making monthly payments to Minor 1 through his businesses, often using the word “SETTLEMENT” in the transaction line, according to the indictment.
She urged people to think about those who might be most vulnerable, such as women forced to travel alone on public transportation early in the morning. News coverage usually presents cases as isolated occurrences, which allows people to think of the cases as “‘tragic,’ ‘horrible,’ ‘weird,’ versus understanding that this is a larger thing, even if you don’t consider race,” she added.
“For more than 30 years, patrol of Chicago area expressways has been a unique duty of this agency and in that time, we have not previously confronted the concentrated levels of gun violence we have faced in 2020 and 2021,” ISP Director Brendan F. Kelly said in the statement. “We are a statewide agency with statewide missions and responsibilities, but we must dedicate the greatest resources to the greatest need, and right now the greatest need is here, on Chicago’s expressways.”