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The bow and arrows from Papua New Guinea were sent by Len Happ, a WWII fighter pilot, to his home in Park Ridge during the war while he was stationed there. His son, John Happ, is working with a museum in Papua New Guinea and the U.S. Embassy there to repatriate the artifacts. (John Happ)

CPS graduate Arthur Wells spoke recently on a University of Chicago panel about his nontraditional college journey. “I’m not surrounded by college graduates in my family,” Wells said. “I kind of was in the dark, trying to figure it out on my own.” (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)

Tammy Gibson on June 3, 2021, at the unmarked gravesite in Lincoln Cemetery of Eugene Williams, the Black teenager who drowned after a rock thrower attacked him for swimming at a white Lake Michigan beach, sparking the 1919 race riot in Chicago. Gibson is among the citizens who held a fundraiser to purchase a marker for the grave. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)

The cold cases of Hanson, 15-year-old Rebecca Jean Anderson and 18-year-old Margaret Stirn were reopened in 1992. Morris confessed to sexually assaulting and stabbing Anderson 61 times in September 1973 and he was convicted in 1997, the review board report said. A few months later, he confessed to the September 1978 sexual assault and murder of Stirn.

Just before 4 p.m., Jemel Murphy and the witness were nearby on the street at the Jonquil Terrace address when a black Jeep drove by and Williams, who was inside it, allegedly fired at them, hitting Jemel Murphy, who collapsed, said the assistant state’s attorney.

Two vehicles sit at the scene where a woman was killed and five others injured including two children during a three-vehicle crash near the intersection of Franklin Boulevard and Homan Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on June 3, 2021, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)

The case report also lists seven witnesses to the incident, categorized as a simple assault. But their names, as well as the other driver’s, are redacted. Typically, police interviews of people involved in crimes such as victims, witnesses or suspects are documented in so called “supplemental reports.” But the department would not provide those reports of the May 21 incident to the Tribune.

Adam Hollingsworth, 34, was ordered held in lieu of $40,000 bond on the violation, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office confirmed. If he posts the necessary $4,000 bail, he will be confined to his home on an electronic ankle monitor, Judge Michael McHale ordered.

“Businesses such as restaurants and bars will face no capacity limits, though masks will still be required for vaccinated people on public transit, airports, schools and hospitals — or during most public settings for those who are unvaccinated. Large gatherings of all sizes can return, meaning there will be no COVID-19-related caps on parties, festivals, weddings, places of worship, conferences and sports events.” More details here.

“COVID is not a lasting thing, but a union is a lasting thing,” Satpathy said, adding: “I just hope that the union and administration work together peacefully, and it doesn’t end up costing students, like it did at (Chicago Public Schools), when there was a strike.”