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As is routine, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, or COPA, is reviewing the specifics of the case, including launching a comprehensive use of force investigation, police said. A request seeking more information from COPA did not receive an immediate response Monday morning.
Unable to reach an agreement with city officials, the team bought a large site outside the city and built a new stadium, modernized for its sport, and surrounded it with restaurants, housing and entertainment. The team was the Atlanta Braves, but its predicament, and potential solution, sounds similar to that facing the Chicago Bears.
There are currently 20 Black aldermen in the council, and 18 majority-Black wards. Black Caucus Chair Ald. Jason Ervin, 28th, said he expects to protect those majority-Black wards, and anticipates aldermen will be able to reach an agreement on a map.
Eric Adams, Brooklyn borough president and the likely next mayor of New York, plus Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and San Jose, California, Mayor Sam Liccardo are expected to attend the meeting Monday, according to two people familiar with the plans. They were not authorized to speak publicly about the meeting and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Chicago police and sheriff’s office personnel investigate the scene just outside the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago on Aug. 18, 2017, after Kenneth Williams was shot a few blocks away from the courthouse. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
State troopers responded to the scene of the shooting on the interstate south of Pulaski Road in Cicero around 1 a.m. Sunday, according to a news release. The driver of a vehicle that was shot at, a 30-year-old man from Chicago, was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, officials said.
A spokeswoman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office said the agency was dispatched to 1177 N. Elston Ave. to retrieve the body. The medical examiner’s office had not identified the woman as of early Sunday afternoon. A forensic investigator is expected to perform an autopsy to determine cause and manner of death. The cause could be undetermined, or it more likely would be classified as an accident, a homicide or a suicide.
The 31-year-old man had been walking with a woman, 60, “when two unknown individuals exited a vehicle … and fired shots, striking them both,” according to the statement. No description of the shooters was available, a police spokesman said Sunday morning.
A tattoo of Rose, a Great Lakes piping plover, is inked on the leg of Dori Levine, a volunteer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as she observes Rose and her mate, Monty, with their four recently hatched chicks, at Montrose Beach on July 10, 2021, in Chicago. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
The latest fatal attack happened about 3:10 p.m. Saturday in the 6100 block of South Ashland Avenue in the Englewood neighborhood. Two men, ages 20 and 33, were at a gas station parking lot when a dark vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired shots at them, striking the older man in the chest and the younger one in an “unknown” part of the body, police said.