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About 2 a.m. Saturday, two men were standing outside in the 4000 block of West Wilcox Street when someone approached on foot and opened fire. One victim, a 24-year-old man, was struck in the head, neck, chest and leg, and was taken to Loretto Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The other man, 28, suffered wounds to the chest, torso and arm, and was taken to Stroger Hospital where he also was pronounced dead, police said.
Groups in the coalition include Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago, Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community, the Latino Policy Forum, the Blackroots Alliance and the state and Cook County Black Chambers of Commerce, the NAACP South Side Branch, the Illinois Muslim Civic Coalition, Common Cause Illinois, the League of Women Voters of Illinois and Chicago, the Better Government Association and CHANGE Illinois, an organization which has long sought an independent mapmaking process.
At 9:48 a.m., Jones allegedly walked up to the driver’s side door of a car, aimed the rifle at a 30-year-old woman and tried to drag her from the car in the first block of East Randolph Street. He then demanded she get out and give him her valuables, according to police.
“It’s rooted in this respectability politics that says that for Black people to succeed, we have to conform to these really silly stereotypes,” he said, “We need to wear our hair a certain length, walk a certain way and when we speak, don’t speak too loudly. All of this is set up so as not to be perceived as a threat by others.”
Deanna Apps, a physical scientist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Detroit District, told the Tribune that most of the Great Lakes region saw drier conditions toward the end of 2020 through this year leaving lake levels in between. “We’re kind of in the middle there,” Apps said. “We’re about a foot and a half above average, and a foot and a half below record highs, roughly.”
Gov. J.B. Pritzker holds a news conference at South Elgin High School announcing Illinois K-12 school districts will receive $7 billion in federal funding to support students as they return to the classroom after distance and hybrid learning due to COVID-19, on March 31, 2021, in South Elgin. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
“This is truly an effort in collaboration and how it should be done,” South Side Ald. Leslie Hairston, 5th, said of the compromise plan. “Everyone did not get what they wanted, but we got to a point where we could agree with something that would be best for the city of Chicago.”
Johnson, a field training officer, was accused by COPA of several rule violations, among them failing to treat Kersh with “dignity and respect” by “dragging and/or carrying” Kersh without justification while he was unconscious; failing to activate his body camera on time; and making “false, misleading, incomplete, and/or inaccurate statements” by omitting that Kersh lost consciousness and claiming he was alert, according to Police Board paperwork.
Artists Book House was founded by bestselling author and Evanston native Audrey Niffenegger. It is described as “a new educational and cultural organization devoted to the Book Arts.” Those arts include writing, reading, printing, bookbinding, papermaking, typography, calligraphy, poetry, fiction, memoir, artist’s books, comics, zines, publishing, conservation, history, and more, according to the group’s proposal to take over the mansion.
Skylar was found in a pool of blood, with several cuts on his left arm, and a broken finger, with a circle burn mark on another finger and a bruised right elbow, the affidavit states. A witness said he heard a couple of gunshots around 7:45 a.m., then a car speeding off, charges allege.