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“We have Democrats from downstate, from areas where people are deeply concerned about protecting their gun rights,” he said. “And then we’ve got people who live in other parts of the state who believe, as I do, that we need to have a greater focus on gun safety, but it’s a complicated challenge in order to get enough votes put together.”
What did Solis, Madigan talk about? “Among their discussions was a plan to turn a state-owned parcel of land in Chinatown into a commercial development,” Meisner and Long write. “Though the land deal never was consummated, it’s been a source of continued interest for federal investigators, who last year subpoenaed Madigan’s office for records and communications he’d had with key players. At least one of them recently appeared before the grand jury investigating Madigan’s political operation, sources told the Tribune.”
Bedi cited the latest report from an independent monitor reviewing police efforts to comply with a federal consent decree, a report that said an audit identified 590 foot pursuits — between April 1, 2019, and Dec. 31, 2019 — that were described in department documentation of arrests but not counted in its data collection.
Mike Counter, head of media relations for St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, holds a 1976 Holy Cross High School class ring belonging to John Daciolas. Counter, a metal-detecting enthusiast, found the ring on the St. Norbert campus recently, 45 years afer Daciolas lost the ring in the snow. (Mike Counter / HANDOUT)
Jimenez, 28, had been on the police force for two years when he was gunned down coming to the aid of other officers during the Mercy Hospital shooting. He was married with three small children. Two other people, including the shooter’s former fiancee and a pharmacy resident, were killed during the attack.
Illinois House Republican Leader Jim Durkin, left, R-Western Springs, speaks with a reporter along with Illinois Senate Minority Leader Dan McConchie, R-Hawthorn Woods, after a leaders meeting in the governor’s office at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield on May 26, 2021. (Justin L. Fowler / AP)
“I saw the car heading northbound (on Port de L’eau Court), and then I assume it turned right on the service road there to get back out,” Ciesielski said, pointing to the T in the road. “It was a small maroon car — like a two-door Honda Civic — that I’d never seen. I’ve lived here 16 years, so I know the cars that belong here usually.
On May 14, the 42-year-old woman was walking on the sidewalk in the 500 block of West Hawthorne Place, when her ex-husband, Paul Woebel, 47, came up behind her and struck her in the head, Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said in a bond hearing streamed live Wednesday on YouTube. The woman fell to the ground and Woebel continued hitting her in the arms and head as she tried to shield herself from the blows, Murphy said.
Sharonda Roberson prepares for a court case via Zoom in her law office in Aurora. Following the May 31, 2020, unrest in the city, Roberson helped found The People’s Coalition, organized a peace rally and created a Facebook group for Aurora residents to share concerns about the complaint process against police officers in Aurora. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)
Yiran Fan, 30, an economics student at the University of Chicago, was the first of five people fatally shot by a single gunman at several locations on the South Side and Evanston. Fan’s parents will be presented with his degree at the University of Chicago’s Beijing center in his native China. (University of Chicago)