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“We are deeply concerned about Ald. Gardiner’s apparent recurrent use of sexist and homophobic language toward one of his colleagues and toward multiple women who work in and around City Council,” the group’s statement reads in part. “In addition to being a legislative body, the City Council is a workplace for hundreds of people. All of us have an obligation to ensure our work environment is safe and inclusive, especially for women. That means we must all speak up and speak out against any effort by a member of this body to demean, disparage or inflict inappropriate retaliation on individuals who work in this space.”
His lawsuit said he suffered periods of unemployment, bouts of depression, hospitalization and psychiatric treatment. He never connected his problems to Hastert until 2008, when he learned his former coach allegedly had inappropriately touched someone else decades ago as well, according to the suit.
Police found a 19-year-old shot in the head and lying unresponsive in the street just after 2 a.m. in the 2000 block of South Lumber Street in the South Loop, according to the police. He was transported to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital by the fire department and was later pronounced dead.
The walk is open to the public and will start with a memorial program at 7:30 a.m. at the Cloud Gate sculpture, known as The Bean, in Millenium Park. A moment of silence will be observed at 7:46 a.m., the time the first plane hit the World Trade Center in a terrorist attack New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, that prompted the war in Afghanistan.
Surrounded by members of the community, family and friends, Marlene Chaidez, center, attends a vigil on Sept. 7, 2021, for Miguel Cisneros, 19, who drowned last month in Lake Michigan near Tobey Prinz Beach Park. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
“We were running along, and a cop is running next to me,’” Delendick recalled. “He says: ‘Father, can I go to confession?’ I looked and said: ‘This is an act of war, isn’t it?’ He said: ‘Yeah, I believe so.’ I said: ‘Then I’m giving general absolution.’ I gave everyone general absolution, and I kept running.”
From left, Angela Gregg and Mychal Moultry, Sr, the parents of Mychal Moultry, Jr., hold a press conference at St. Sabina Church in Chicago on Sept. 9, 2021, to call for the person who fatally shot their son to come forward and surrender to police. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
The measure will require additional disclosures from officials on personal financial interests, aims to prevent lawmakers from lobbying their former colleagues immediately after they leave office, and allows the legislative inspector general to initiate investigations of alleged wrongdoing without the blessing of a panel appointed by the partisan leaders of the General Assembly, among other changes.
Students at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart, a private, Catholic day and boarding school in Lake Forest for girls in grades 9-12, are also allowed to leave campus. The school offers a five-day boarding program, where students from the surrounding area live on campus during the week and return home for the weekends, spokesman Alex Maegdlin said in a statement.
A security guard checks proof of vaccination as people line up to enter Metro, a North Side music venue, on Aug. 7. Some Chicago aldermen want to mandate that all such venues, along with restaurants, bars, movie theaters and gyms, require proof of vaccination. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)