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Kelly, 54, is charged in with racketeering conspiracy alleging the singer was the head of a criminal enterprise that used a series of managers, bodyguards, runners and others to target young victims, groom them, abuse them, and manipulate or blackmail them to keep them under Kelly’s control.
Department spokesman Chief Ed Lescher said, “When we arrived on scene, we saw a pontoon boat circling frantically. We had responding units from most of Lake and McHenry counties. We searched the area, and other dive crews brought the sonar detection devices. At approximately 11:45, the operation switched to recovery mode.”
He made an erratic and sometimes temperamental witness. At times, he testified like the showman he used to be, clearly reveling in telling jurors a dramatic story. Moments later, he would start to mumble, or take long, rambling detours. And when Judge Ann Donnelly sharply admonished him to answer questions directly — “I’m running out of patience,” she told him outside the jury’s presence — he grew snappish.
The latest surge in COVID-19, driven by the highly contagious delta variant, has brought on renewed restrictions, including a citywide mask mandate for indoor public places in Chicago that took effect Friday, a statewide mask mandate for schools and now the Cook County health department’s mask requirement. That department covers suburb Cook County except for Evanston, Skokie, Oak Park, and Stickney Township.
“It’s just too dangerous,” Moore said. “The park’s right there, and there’s a senior building across the street. People race along 76th to try to make the light at Loomis so they can also make the light at Ashland, which is a long light. Three separate times in the past year cars have crashed through the fence at a house there. We’ve had four or five serious crashes.”
Maria Caravati, owner of Equinox Botanical Boutique, in downtown Kenosha on Aug. 19, 2021. Caravati is a massage therapist, urban gardener, and business owner who has been downtown for 23 years. “My neighbor and I were the first ones to take the boards off our windows and it was like a veil had been lifted. My spirit and mood completely shifted.” (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
Vice President Joe Biden and Mayor Rahm Emanuel following an event celebrating the first domestic violence shelter built in the city in more than a decade in Chicago on Monday, Nov. 25, 2013. The ceremony will launch the construction of a new two-story WINGS Metro facility housing, a 40-bed domestic violence shelter with retail and resale shops, offices, and social services for clients. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune / Chicago Tribune)
Republicans want a federal court to rule the new boundaries invalid and order a bipartisan commission to redraw the maps as required by the constitution if no map becomes law by June 30. The commission, made up of an equal number of members from each party, invariably leads to a deadlock over the maps, leading to a drawing to choose a member to break the tie.
“Due to the ongoing pandemic, Marie Osmond and David Archuleta have made the difficult decision to cancel their August 25 performance at Ravinia,” the festival reported. The musicians said, “We look forward to rescheduling for a future date and can’t wait until we have everyone back together to experience this wonderful show.”
Burson said he only used cannabis after work, never on the job, but was forced to pass more tests in the months after that to prove he was clean. He said he did so, but one day, his sample was considered contaminated. He was asked to have someone watch him give a urine sample, which he said he reflexively refused. Two weeks later, records show, he was fired.