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The 18-month effort, funded by the Joyce Foundation, will focus on the state’s flagship public university, where just under 6% of students are Black, 11% are Latino and well under 1% identify as Native American or Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, under-representations of the state’s population, according to school data. The largest demographic groups are white students at 41% and Asian American students at 16%.
“This was not about this appointment. This was about their mistreatment of Ms. Young,” Taylor said. “I’ve said to her and I’ll say to you all, ever since we’ve been in a global pandemic and she got this ultimate power, she doesn’t feel like she has to work with us and that is not how this is going to work,” Taylor said. “I’m not for it. I’m going to stand up for Ms. Young.”
Jason Peden, 35, of Ford Heights, was arrested Monday on suspicion of the attempted murder of a 49-year-old Ford Heights man who was found bleeding from the mouth in the 1400 block of Diplomat Lane, according to authorities. The victim was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he remains hospitalized, officials said.
In the second incident, a Waukegan man was found shot at around 9:10 p.m. in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 200 block of Julian Street. The man, who police said is in his 20s, was taken to an area hospital and was reported to be in stable condition.
Firefighters and paramedics were called to 69 W. Washington St. at 2:14 a.m. for a report of a fire in the bank lobby. The building also houses numerous local and state government service offices, including the Cook County Clerk, an Illinois Department of Human Services location, Cook County Adult Probation and the “Chicago Loop Express” location of the Secretary of State’s office.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly held an unusual hearing investigating potential conflicts with Kelly’s attorney, Nicole Blank Becker of Michigan. Kelly has said he’s opted to go with Becker and another member of the legal team, Thomas Farinella of New York, but the judge said she won’t sign off on the change until she has a chance to ask Kelly face-to-face.
Andrew Rehn of Prairie Rivers Network from Champaign looks at toxic coal ash waste seepage on the shore of the Middle Fork of the Vermilion River near the closed coal power generating plant owned by Dynegy Inc. near Collison on May 2, 2018. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)
“We’re collecting all sorts of information from radar data, to pictures, to even, sometimes, we get personal accounts from people,” Lincoln said. “They tell us about what they saw, how it behaved, how long it took, and we’re collecting all of that information, putting it in one place, and then we’re kind of doing an investigation, basically. Trying to look at all the factors together and coming to a conclusion from that.”
Soon after, about 4 a.m., a car pulled up on the street in front of the house and turned off its lights. Two individuals got out of the car and walked up to the garage, but after two people from the house confronted them, they ran back to the car, where one of them fired a gun at the woman, striking a neighbor’s shed behind her, prosecutors said.
“It’s like they’re throwing all of the kids in a pool, and those who know how to swim get a luxury yacht, and for those who don’t, they’ll take away their life preservers,” Montgomery said. “We’ll know what they didn’t learn, and what they’re supposed to learn, but according to whom?”