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LaSheena Weekly with her grandson, Carlton Weekly Jr., 5, at her home June 17, 2021. Weekly lost her son Carlton Weekly, who rapped under the name FBG Duck, to gun violence last year. Earlier, she’d lost her son Jermaine Robinson, known as rapper FBG Brick, in 2017. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
“Some people say now that I taught Louis everything. That isn’t true. Louis had all the creativeness, but what he needed was to get away from the influence of (bandleader and cornet player King) Oliver, who he thought was the greatest. I remember someone told me that when a woman marries, she should work for her husband. So, if I wanted to be someone, Louis had to be someone. I told him I didn’t want to be married to a second trumpet player. I wanted to be married to a first trumpet player.” Lillian “Lil” Hardin Armstrong in the Chicago Tribune, March 28, 1965 Share quote & link
Rish was convicted of helping with the plot hatched by Edwards, a small-time Kankakee drug dealer, to kidnap Small, the 40-year-old heir to a local media fortune. Edwards took him to a rural area and buried him in a 6-by-3-foot wooden box outfitted with an air pipe, but Small suffocated. Edwards made calls from pay phones to demand money, and police used call-tracing devices and surveillance to nab Edwards and Rish days after the kidnapping.
By Saturday, temperatures are forecast to climb into the low- to mid- 90s, with the heat index measuring in the upper 90s and nearing 100 degrees, according to the weather service. The heat index measures “what it would feel like outside,” Birk said. Very hot and humid conditions make it hard for the human body to regulate its temperature, so it can feel hotter than the recorded air temperature, he said.
Governor J.B. Pritzker takes part in a one on one interview with Tribune reporter Rick Pearson in an office in downtown Chicago, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. The governor had previously announced that his will run again for a re-election. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, left, talks with Glen Brooks, director of public engagement for the Chicago Police Department, during a visit to a youth league baseball game at Columbus Park in the South Austin neighborhood, July 22, 2021. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
But in a four-page letter, outlets such as ABC, CBS, Buzzfeed, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and others asked Donnelly to consider allowing a pool of six reporters each day into the trial courtroom itself, where the reactions of Kelly, jurors and witnesses can be picked up and nuances of testimony better assessed.
Deonta Sanchez, 25, was arrested after a traffic stop in the 7000 block of South Jeffery Boulevard and later identified as being one of the people who allegedly beat the driver and took his vehicle by force in the 4500 block of North St. Louis Avenue in the Albany Park neighborhood, police said.
In addition to the 98-month term, Paul Eric Collins, 55, also was ordered to pay $1,159,414 in restitution to his victims by U.S. District Judge Elaine E. Bucklo, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud last year.
The Labor Department said Thursday that jobless claims increased last week to 419,000, the most in two months, from 368,000 the previous week. The number of first-time applications, which generally tracks layoffs, has fallen steadily since topping 900,000 in early January, according to an Associated Press report.