Daywatch: Slow Cook County courts will begin tracking why cases are delayed
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A new shelter opened in Pilsen Tuesday amid growing backlash from some in the Latino community who feel that immigration reform and the neighborhood’s recent property tax hike has taken a back seat to the migrant crisis.
Just weeks after a volunteer-run shelter in Pilsen was forced to close because of a lack of funding and volunteer support, the new migrant shelter, now operated by the city, quietly opened in an empty warehouse near Cermak Road and Halsted Street.
The meeting was just the latest sign of tensions boiling over across as city officials predict that Chicago may soon see as many as 20 to 25 buses of migrants arrive a day. Anger erupted at the Amundsen Park field house Tuesday night as Northwest Side residents shouted their frustration at officials tasked with explaining the city’s move to open a shelter for newly arrived migrants in the neighborhood’s Park District.
Meanwhile, a day after sending President Joe Biden a letter criticizing the White House effort on migrants, Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday called for a stronger show of unity among local Democrats in responding to the swelling influx of asylum-seekers arriving in Chicago from the southern border.
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Stalled Justice: Notoriously slow Cook County courts will begin tracking why cases are delayed
Six months after the Tribune published its “Stalled Justice” investigation, court officials told the Tribune they soon will begin recording the reason that a criminal case gets pushed to another date — a step that experts have long recommended so the county can better understand and target issues that can drag out cases for years.
Settlement reached in Kenneka Jenkins wrongful death lawsuit filed after 2017 hotel freezer death, court records show
A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed in connection with the 2017 death of Kenneka Jenkins, the 19-year-old Chicago woman who died of hypothermia inside a Rosemont hotel’s walk-in freezer.
Hate, extremism on the rise in Illinois ‘sobering,’ Anti-Defamation League report finds
Lee Zoldan remembers the 2017 attack on her downtown synagogue every time she walks in the building.
“Those windows were broken. Nazi stickers were placed on those doors,” the Chicago Loop Synagogue president recalled Tuesday. “The windows were replaced. The stickers were removed. But the invisible scars remain.”
Years later, the same hate and extremism that shook Zoldan’s congregation has only grown in Illinois, a new report by the Anti-Defamation League shows.
As owners of Banana Split contemplate retirement, fans drop by iconic Aurora ice cream shop as season nears end
Four decades ago, Aurora residents Randy and Lisa Brown had the dream of working for themselves by selling ice cream and other dairy treats in Aurora, a mom-and-pop success story that this week may be coming to an end as the couple contemplate retirement.
Now the Browns say they are eying retirement. They are “relatively new grandparents and loving every minute of grandparenthood” and are hoping to be more available to their grandchildren.
Chicago Bears Q&A: Can Justin Fields solidify himself as the starter moving forward? Could he be traded? What was with the 4th-and-1 call?
Despite a career-best game Sunday against the Denver Broncos, there are still many questions surrounding Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields. What could the Bears be planning for his future?
Plus, do the Bears have a clock management issue? And how could the line change upon Teven Jenkins’ return? Brad Biggs answers questions in his weekly Bears mailbag.
Review: Remedios Varo is the most extraordinary surrealist you’ve never heard of. Now at the Art Institute.
Unless you’re a specialist in women of the surrealist movement, you — like me — are probably unfamiliar with Varo, who was only 54 when she died of a heart attack at her home in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City. It was 1963, the height of her career. Since then, she has had a cult following in Mexico, where most of her work is held, but she has been too little known outside of the country, a situation slowly changing with her inclusion in the 2022 Venice Biennale, recent acquisitions by New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Toledo Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and now “Remedios Varo: Science Fictions,” a survey of her final period, on view at the AIC through the end of November.
Berlin band Tangerine Dream is coming to the Metro. It’s been a long, colorful trip.
Tangerine Dream was perhaps the story of 1970s electronic music, not to mention a highly liquid, highly sought-after commodity in the world of movie soundtracks. To date, Tangerine Dream has scored or had their music used in dozens of movies and TV shows, from “Risky Business” and “Firestarter” in the ‘80s to “Stranger Things.” They scored hours of music for the video game “Grand Theft Auto V.”
