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JPMorgan Chase plans to invest another$150 million in grants and low-cost loans in Chicago’s South and West sides. CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon said business has a responsibility to help solve challenges facing the customers and communities it serves. (Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images North America/TNS)
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, from left, departing Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson and incoming interim CPS CEO Jose Torres, during a news conference June 14, 2021, at Richardson Middle School in Chicago. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Prater will helm the Milwaukee USPS district, according to a letter from Elvin Mercado, the Postal Service central area’s vice president. The Wisconsin city’s territory has just over 1,200 employees and 700 city routes, compared with Chicago’s over 4,300 employees and 2,100 routes. Prater had been Chicago postmaster since 2018.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, from left, outgoing Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice K. Jackson and incoming interim CEO of Chicago Public Schools Jose Torres are seen during a press conference at Richardson Middle School in Chicago on Monday, June 14, 2021. Torres was selected as incoming interim CEO of CPS, pending approval by the Chicago Board of Education. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Gun control issues have always been contentious, reflecting divergent views on firearms between the heavily-populated Chicago area, where crime is high, and downstate rural areas where guns are embraced for sport, hunting and protection. In the past, those culture differences crossed party lines, but in recent years downstate has become more heavily Republican and more united in backing gun rights.
Prosecutors questioned Sydney Weaver, 19, for more than an hour, who gave two prior depositions, or a full account of what she knew, but claimed Wednesday not to remember several details that could incriminate him in the Feb. 25, 2019, murders of Molley Lanham, 19 and Thomas Grill, 18 in rural Hebron.
In December 2014, Shelton was named in a multi-count indictment along with Elgin, Elgin’s son, Steven Hunter, and Alex Wheeler, alleging the four committed conspiracy to defraud; wire fraud; conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud; honest service wire fraud; and conspiracy to commit extortion.
Larry Earvin, 65, died in June 2018 from injuries a month after 13 prison officials beat him in a corridor of the Western Illinois Correctional Center where there were no security cameras, attorney Jon Erickson said at a news conference Wednesday outside the Thompson Center. Earvin, who was restrained during the assault, suffered 15 rib fractures, abrasions and hemorrhages, and fatal blunt trauma to the chest and abdomen, according to a federal indictment against three of the guards.
Tramane Johnson, 27, of the 38700 block of Sheridan Road, was taken into custody Wednesday morning at his home by Lake County sheriff’s deputies. He has been charged with two counts of attempted aggravated criminal sexual assault and one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, authorities said.
Both Green and Jaghama were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, and Green was still hospitalized Wednesday in critical condition with life-threatening injuries, police said. Jaghama remains hospitalized and his initial court hearing was held without him being present, according to Gerald Vetter, chief for Oak Lawn’s investigation division.