Chicago Tribune,
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Kori Rumore
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Before her death Saturday at 92, Sister Mary Joseph of the Trinity, O.C.D. , was the world’s most unlikely nun — a former millionaire with 10 children, 28 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. (Snip) The deeply religious couple made a pact that, if one died, the other would join a religious order. When Richard died of cancer in 1984, Ann Miller did exactly that, giving away all her riches and joining the Carmelite Monastery of St. Joseph in Des Plaines, five years after her husband’s death.
She entered self-imposed withdrawal by joining the contemplative cloistered order, able to leave only for medical treatment.
ABC7-TV (Chicago),
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Chuck Goudie *
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6/11/2021 8:44:28 AM
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Chicago (WLS) -- For Chicago police officers, the return to normal schedules will be short-lived.
The ABC7 I-Team has learned that police citywide will be back on 12-hour shifts and have their regular days off cancelled next weekend. The order, revealed in a CPD memo obtained Thursday by the I-Team, reverses an announcement made just 10 days ago by Supt. David Brown. (Snip) Despite Supt. Brown's admission that such scheduling is "not sustainable," officers say they are concerned that next weekend's everyday scheduling will continue through the summer, rolling from Juneteenth to the 4th of July to Lollapalooza and beyond.
WBZ-TV (Boston),
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Staff
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6/10/2021 12:02:11 PM
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Fitchburg – A Fitchburg High School graduate is heading to Harvard University, but before she starts her college career, she’s helping others do the same. Verda Tetteh is getting a full ride to Harvard. At graduation, she was awarded an additional $40,000 scholarship for books, computers and living expenses but she turned it down. (Snip) suggested the money go to a struggling fellow student or students, for whom it might open a door to community college. “I’m excited to see who it helps and how that changes their life, so I am so happy that God gave me the strength to do that,”
CBS2-TV (Chicago),
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Dana Kozlov
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6/9/2021 4:34:26 PM
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Chicago (CBS) — Expressway shootings are becoming so common around Chicago that there are now more than 10 a month on average. One of those bullets narrowly missed a northwest suburban man. (Snip) A spokesperson for the Illinois State Police said since the beginning of 2020, there have been more than 220 shootings on Chicago area expressways. But there have been only 3 arrests. One of them in this victim’s case After a nine-month investigation, 26-year-old Micaro Masri was charged with the aggravated discharge of a firearm – a felon – last month. He was out on bond as of Tuesday night.
Chicago Sun-Times,
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6/4/2021 4:17:06 PM
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Four of the six people shot in Chicago Thursday were teenagers 18 or younger.
In the day’s only fatal attack, an 18-year-old man was killed when he exchanged gunfire during an argument Thursday night in Park Manor. (Snip) A 15-year-old girl was critically wounded in a shooting on Lake Shore Drive Thursday night.
She was in a car with relatives when they stopped at a light about 11:45 p.m. in the 500 block of Lake Shore Drive, police said. When the light turned green, someone in a red Ford Expedition began firing at their car. (Snip) 13 people were shot, 2 fatally, Wednesday in Chicago. One of them was a 14-year-old girl
New York Post,
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Mike Puma
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6/2/2021 4:13:33 PM
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Phoenix – Du better, Bob.
Diamondbacks TV analyst Bob Brenly on Wednesday apologized for an insensitive comment directed toward Marcus Stroman that he issued a night earlier. During the Mets’ 6-5 loss to the Diamondbacks in 10 innings, Brenly questioned the headwear Stroman was wearing beneath his cap, saying “I’m sure that is the same du-rag that Tom Seaver used to wear when he pitched for the Mets.”
Stroman, later on Twitter, indicated his displeasure with the underlying racial comment.(Snip)“During (Tuesday) night’s game I made a poor attempt at humor that was insensitive and wrong,”
Daily Mail (UK),
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Tom Kelly
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5/31/2021 7:09:05 PM
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An Oxford academic spent years handing over nuclear intelligence in clandestine meetings with communist spies, a Daily Mail investigation reveals today.
Professor Jirina Stone, who is still a leading nuclear scientist, briefed agents from her native Czechoslovakia on sensitive British and American research after emigrating here in the mid-1980s, according to a dossier of newly declassified files from the Security Services archive in Prague. (Snip) Materials she passed on and information she told them about included plans for third-generation US nuclear weapons, reports on UK radar and other nuclear research, and materials previously unknown or unavailable behind the Iron Curtain,
The College Fix,
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Staff
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5/30/2021 3:27:59 PM
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DePaul University officially has adopted a Native American land acknowledgment after almost a year’s worth of “researching, meeting with stakeholders, vetting with shared governance.” According to The DePaulia, the area around DePaul’s home, Chicago, Illinois, was once “occupied by the indigenous tribes […] who maintained deep connections with this land where they lived, worked and worshiped.” (Snip) Religious Studies Professor Lisa Poirier said the land acknowledgment is an “important first step” for (white) settlers to come to terms with the people and land they’ve occupied for over 200 years.
New York Post,
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Kerry J. Byrne
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5/29/2021 2:26:06 PM
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A lawless, drug-infested Washington Square Park is horrifying even famously free-spirited Greenwich Village residents.
“We may be liberal but this has gone too far,” lamented Steven Hill, who has called the neighborhood home since 1980. “There have always been drugs in the park, mostly pot, but what’s emerged this spring is like nothing we’ve ever seen before.” (Snip) He added, “De Blasio seems like the worst mayor ever. The city is just going down the sewer.”
Neighbors said they were told during a recent community meeting with police that manpower at the 6th Precinct is down 50 percent over the past year. The NYPD would not confirm that figure.
Chicago Sun-Times,
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Frank Main
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5/22/2021 12:13:08 PM
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A 76-year-old man convicted of killing a teenager in a Northwest Side forest preserve in 1972 has been paroled.
Ray Larsen is the latest inmate serving an indefinite prison term — a so-called “C-number” inmate — the Illinois Prisoner Review Board has ordered released, a list that also includes a double ax-murderer.
Larsen had been serving a sentence of 100 to 300 years in prison after confessing he killed 16-year-old Frank Casolari in the Schiller Woods Forest Preserve near O’Hare Airport on May 17, 1972. (Snip) At the time of the killing, Larsen was 27 and on furlough from the Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet, where he was doing time for robbery.
Fox News,
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Joseph A. Wulfsohn
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5/19/2021 10:36:55 AM
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Reporters out of Chicago are alleging that Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot is now granting interviews only to journalists of color.
NBC 5 Chicago political reporter Mary Ann Ahern took to Twitter on Tuesday to mark the "midway point" of Lightfoot's first term in office and apparently acknowledged her failed effort to land an interview.
"As @chicagosmayor reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews - only to Black or Brown journalists," Ahern tweeted. And apparently, Ahern wasn't the only one.
"I was told the same thing," WTTW Chicago Tonight anchor and correspondent Paris Schutz reacted to Ahern's tweet.
ABC7-TV (Chicago),
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Staff
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5/18/2021 11:46:26 AM
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Gov. JB Pritzker officially put Illinois in line with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Monday, lifting the mask mandate for fully vaccinated people, although masks are still required in healthcare settings and on transit. More guidance is expected from Chicago health officials Tuesday, after Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday she's keeping her mask on in most public settings and is encouraging others to do the same.(Snip) "I don't trust other people who don't have the shot," said Awilda Heredia. "And the kids around you who could pass anything because they're not vaccinated."
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