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The efforts then became defensive, with a total of 10 engine companies, five truck/tower ladders, 12 tenders, five ambulances and 11 chief officers on the scene. Because there are no fire hydrants near the church, the fire district said about 91,000 gallons of water were brought to the site to extinguish the fire.
Tim Jacklich, a 2016 graduate of Benet Academy, said about 40 alumni, parents and students gathered outside the school in support of a woman who had been offered the job of head coach of the girls lacrosse team, only to see the opportunity rescinded when she listed her wife as an emergency contact in her onboarding paperwork.
Looking at the data provided by CPS, William Howard Taft High School in Norwood Park has reported 14 positive cases since the start of school, with 566 close contacts identified. John Palmer Elementary School in the Albany Park area has logged 12 cases, with 309 close contacts. Alexander Graham Bell Elementary School in the North Center community has seen eight cases, with 142 close contacts.
Over the next three years, five more murders were allegedly committed on Spann’s orders, according to the government, 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 Rudy “Kato” Rangel, an aspiring rapper and then-leader of the Latin Kings who was gunned down in a pop-up barber shop.
The man, 30, whose name officials had not released Monday, was driving south in his black 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee in the 8300 block of South Vincennes Avenue when he was shot by someone in a red van, “which fled the scene,” police said. The man was shot once in the head and lost control of the Jeep, crashing “into a steel beam,” before stopping “underneath a train viaduct,” according to authorities.
But the chair of the Black Caucus, Ald. Jason Ervin, 28th, said the sky isn’t falling, “it’s raining hundred-dollar bills.” Black business people need a chance to partake in the marijuana gold rush, Ervin said, and the mayor’s plan is a step to help that happen.
Prosecutors’ witnesses have largely fallen into two categories. Kelly’s accusers, mostly young women, have alleged that he was violent and manipulative, even controlling when they could leave their rooms to use the bathroom. Kelly’s alleged enablers have taken the stand to testify about the structure of the so-called enterprise, including Kelly’s rules keeping women isolated to their rooms or on tour buses.
Lightfoot has made clear she doesn’t intend to use all the funds from the federal rescue plan on the upcoming budget shortfall, saying in August that to do so would be “utterly irresponsible, ineffective, and leave us with nothing to support ourselves, God forbid another crisis strikes our city.”
Administrators expect to loan up to $500,000 to each craft grower, and $250,000 to each dispensary, agency spokesperson Lauren Huffman said. As of Sept. 15, 18 license winners have applied for the loans, with a Sept. 30 deadline approaching. Two private partners, Good Tree Capital and Credit Union 1, will also provide financing under the program.
Angela Sustaita, 18, walks home with her younger sister, Nicole Sustaita, 7, from Columbus West Elementary in Cicero on Sept. 2, 2021. Angela Sustaita, who became eligible for the DACA program at 16, was counting on the permit to attend college and get a job after high school. But her application is on standby after the July ruling. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)