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Brian Witherell displays a Colt .45-caliber pistol that once belonged to mob boss Al Capone, at Witherell’s Auction House in Sacramento, California on Aug. 25, 2021. The pistol is among the 174 family heirlooms that will be up for sale at an Oct. 8 auction titled “A Century of Notoriety: The Estate of Al Capone.” (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

A: It is. And actually it was pronounced “BOO-gee.” My mother’s name was Diana Ruth Casey. Her little brother, who was 10 years younger than her, started calling her Boogie and, somehow, he got that out of what her real name was and it stuck. In the family, she was called Boogie. It’s really funny because Daddy, when he met her, always called her by her last name. He always called her Casey. Throughout the years, the people who knew her as a little girl called her Boogie, the people who knew her as Daddy’s girlfriend and then wife called her Casey and then, later in life when she was here in California she was Diana. She had different names for different times in her life.

Locally, the shortage means that about 2,100 CPS students, mostly selective enrollment or magnet school students like DeChant’s daughter, won’t have bus transportation on Monday, but the district has offered affected students a $1,000 stipend for the first two weeks, with $500 per month after that. About 990 special education students will also be without a ride for the first day, officials said.

A man driving a BMW on North Broadway struck a man and a woman, both 39, as they walked across the street at West Irving Park Road around 12:50 a.m. Sunday, police said in a media notification. The driver then did a U-turn and struck a male cyclist, 55, “who was attempting to render aid to the two individuals he had just struck,” police said.