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Officers were called about 12:45 a.m. to the 1100 block of North Lake Shore Drive, where a silver Nissan Sentra had struck a light post from a northbound lane, police said in a media notification. Three men were found inside the Sentra, two of them with gunshot wounds.
Municipal investors in the massive coal burner, including Batavia, Geneva, Naperville, St. Charles and Winnetka, want Prairie State exempted from the governor’s fossil fuel phaseout. So does Springfield, which built a new coal plant around the same time even as private investors abandoned dozens of similar projects, scared off by skyrocketing construction costs and the likelihood that climate pollution would eventually be regulated.
The 2020 white Dodge Ram panel van was taken at 6:35 a.m. May 21 in the 5000 block of South Western Avenue while the owner was at a gas station, police said. The offender entered the van and tried to drive away. When the owner tried to stop the offender, the offender threatened him with a knife and drove off, police said.
The running joke of Monday’s news conference announcing José Torres as the new CEO of Chicago Public Schools was that he was two days into retirement when he got the call. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she even got the go-ahead from Torres’ wife before he agreed to fill in during the transition to departing CEO Janice Jackson’s permanent successor.
Officers responded around 7:38 p.m. Feb. 22 to For More Liquor on the 100 block of South Broadway Street for a report of an armed robbery, police said. Witnesses said one suspect entered the store with a handgun, demanding money, cigarettes and liquor, according to police.
Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman takes questions from reporters during a press conference on Feb. 16, 2019, the day after a mass shooting at Henry Pratt Co. in the city saw five Pratt employees killed and five Aurora police officers and a Pratt employee wounded. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)
Hartman spent time in Cook County Jail before being released in March 2020, part of an effort to release low-risk detainees in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. She was put on a county electronic monitoring program with an ankle bracelet, and placed at a West Side facility that provides supportive and transitional housing.
“Breaks or transition times between meetings are not office time,” she wrote, seven times, in an email that cc’d the mayor’s then-chief of staff and a body person, a personal aide who takes care of a politician’s immediate needs, like providing a favorite snack or making sure they know who they’re about to talk with.
On Sept. 13, Cole shot and killed A’Meyah T. Brewton, 21, of Gurnee, as they posed before a mirror and took selfies with a handgun, Assistant State’s Attorney Robert Money told Judge Victoria Rossetti. Money said Cole, who was under the influence of marijuana, had removed the pistol’s magazine and a chambered bullet, but had then inadvertently reloaded the gun.
A state Department of Natural Resources release identified the victim as Donald Turner. The DNR release said he was swimming about 4:40 p.m. with his girlfriend when she began to struggle in the water. Turner went to her aid and got her to safety before going under water and not resurfacing, officials said.