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MONDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS*
7 a.m. — (CHICAGO/OAK BROOK)American Red Cross hosts Great Chicago Blood Drive. 7 a.m.-6 p.m. at Hyatt Regency, Grand Ballroom, 151 E. Upper Wacker Dr.; and 8 a.m.-6 p.m. at Drake Oak Brook Hotel, 2301 York Rd., Oak Brook. Contact: Joy Squier, (312) 384-0454; or catherine.rabenstine@redcross.org.
7:15 a.m. (CHICAGO) — Carolyn Flowers, Federal Transit Administration Administrator, will make a major transportation funding announcement at the Argyle station that will improve the rail transit service in Chicago. Sen. Dick Durbin, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and other officials will attend. 1118 W. Arglye Ave. Contact: Brian Steele, bsteele@transitchicago.com.
*** 8 a.m. — (HARVEY) Harvey Police Deputy Chief Gregory Thomas holds a press conference on a Sunday night homicide in the city. The Harvey Police Station, 15320 S. Dixie Highway, Harvey. Contact: Sean Howard, (312) 498-1371 or sthmedia@aol.com.
8 a.m. (SPRINGFIELD) — Governor Rauner will attend an appreciation breakfast to thank officers for their service in law enforcement. 100 West Hazel Dell Rd. Contact: Catherine Kelly, catherine.kely@illinois.gov.
9:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley will speak to students at Alcott College Prep in advance of the 2017 Presidential Inauguration, and hand out tickets to 41 7th- and 8th-graders who will be attending the event in Washington. Alcott’s East Elementary Campus, 2625 N. Orchard St. Contact: Tara Vales, (202) 225-4061 or tara.vales@mail.house.gov.
11 a.m. — (WHEATON) The Mayors of Lisle, Naperville, Warrenville and Woodridge will hold a joint news conference to address petitions filed to annex Lisle, Warrenville and Woodridge into Naperville. Officials were unaware that the petitions were being circulated in their communities. 421 N. County farm Road, Room 3500A. Contact: Catherine Schuster (630) 271-4148 or cschuster@villageoflisle.org.
11:15 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Metropolitan Planning Council hosts its 2017 Annual Luncheon, “Challenging Inequality, Driving Growth: The Economic Implications of Segregation.” Sheraton Grand Hotel, 301 E. North Water St. Contact: Janet Myers, (312) 863-6010 or jmyers@metroplanning.org.
11:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) David Axelrod speaks to the City Club of Chicago. Maggiano’s, 111 W. Grand Ave. Contact: info@cityclub-chicago.com or (312) 565-6500.
11:30 a.m. — (GARY, Ind.) Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson speaks to the Gary Chamber of Comerce at its first meeting of the year. The Diamond Center, 500 E. 5th Ave., Gary, Ind. Contact: (219) 885-7407.
Noon — (CHICAGO) Local climate activists take part in 350.org’s #DayAgainstDenial campaign, rallying outside the office of U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin to call on Durbin and U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth to fight cabinet nominees to deny climate change. Kluczynski Federal Building, 230 S. Dearborn. Contact: Deni Mathews, (630) 292-3270 or denimathews@comcast.net.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) University of Chicago hosts an MLK Celebration, with keynote by Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative. Rockerfeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. Contact: Regina Dixon-Reeves, rdixonreeves@bsd.uchicago.edu or (773) 702-5710.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Kenneth Woodward discusses his book “Getting Religion” in a Chicago Headline Club program. First United Methodist Church, Suite 2, 77 W. Washington. Contact: headline.submit@gmail.com.
6:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Center on Halsted hosts a Name & Gender Change Workshop to help trans individuals change their names and genders on legal documents. 3656 N. Halsted St. Contact: Peter Johnson, (773) 472-6469 or pjohnson@centeronhalsted.org.
MONDAY’S COURT DOCKET*
9 a.m. call — (BRIDGEVIEW) Ehab Qasem, charged with John Granat, Christopher Wyma and Mohammed Salahat (sentenced); Charged in the murder of Granat’s parents in unincorporated Palos Heights. Status. Bridgeview Courthouse, 10220 S. 76th Ave., Bridgeview. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9 a.m. call — (MAYWOOD) Jose G. Difatta-Perez, charged with murder; Accused of fatally injuring his baby niece while he was babysitting on 7-18-2015. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423. (Note: Name given by police as Giancarlo Difatta-Perez.)
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Derrick Allmon, charged with Michael D. Baker, Paris Denard and Jabari Williams; each charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a 9-year-old at close range on 8-20-14 after he yelled that someone had a gun. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Tramell Anderson, charged with murder; Accused of shooting a 14-year-old with an AR-15 assault rifle he had been showing off to the teen on 9-20-13. Status. (Note: Name also listed as “Tramell McGraw-Anderson.”) Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Faramarz Bakhshi, charged with murder and concealing a homicidal death; Accused of murdering a college student and hiding her body in an air mattress in February 2013. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Tramian Barnes, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a 19-year-old Portage Park man on 1-20-2014. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Dwright Boone-Doty, charged with Kevin Edwards and Corey Morgan, all charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee on 11-2-15. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423. (Note: Also listed at Dwright Doty in court records.)
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Dewann Crooks, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting 38-year-old Clint Eldridge on 3-14-11 on the Far South Side. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Brion M. Dowdell, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting an 18-year-old in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on 3-2-2014. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Roy Estivez, charged with involuntary servitude, aggravated criminal sexual assault; A landlord accused of torturing and threatening two mentally handicapped tenants and exploiting them for money. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Jeremy Givens, charged with murder; Accused of fatally stabbing a 42-year-old man on Christmas Eve 2015 in Roseland. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Nichols Gregor, charged with two counts of unauthorized videotaping; A convicted sex offender accused of trying to take a picture of a 12-year-old boy at a Wrigley Field urinal. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Anthony Guedes, charged with Luis Alfaro and Pedro Corral, each charged with murder; Accused in the murder of a drug dealer near Midway Airport during a robbery plot on 9-5-2014. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Daniel Guerreo and Marco Ramirez (sentenced), both charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery in a public place; Accused in the May 2010 fatal beating and stabbing of Alan Olivia in the McKinley Park area. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) William Hill, charged with murder; A Cicero teen accused of pointing on 27-year-old Jeremy Rogers to the gunman before Rogers was shot in the head on the Northwest Side on 6-5-16. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) James Ivory, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man on 8-26-2014 in the Englewood neighborhood. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
10 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Thaddeus Jimenez, charged with aggravated battery; A man once awarded a $25 million verdict after his murder conviction was thrown out, now accused of shooting a man. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Joey Jones, charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder: Accused of fatally shooting a store clerk, then shooting another man across the city later that day on 4-1-14. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Daniel Kralik, charged with murder; A man accused of strangling his girlfriend in their Humboldt Park apartment in May 2014. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Alejandro Lozano, charged with aggravated arson; Accused of setting himself and a store on fire during the Mole de Mayo Festival in Pilsen on 5-29-16. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Alexander Marrero, charged with criminal sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping; An Uber driver accused of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman he was hired to drive home from the Gold Coast on 6-26-16. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Dashawn Martin, charged with Bryan Perkins and Sokito Taylor, each charged with murder and concealment of a homicide; Accused of beating to death a man who owed Perkins money, and leaving his body in a trash can near a Safe Passage route in Aug. 2013. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Raul Martinez, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of shooting a rival gang member to death in Hermosa on 5-3-16. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Vidal Martinez, charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder; A Cicero man charged with fatally shooting a Monee man and wounding another person at a Bridgeport party on 8-31-2013. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Derrick Miles, charged with first-degree murder; A man accused of fatally shooting a Cicero man in May 2012 in retaliation for a previous shooting. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Samuel D. Miller, charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder; Accused of killing one man and wounding another in a South Chicago neighborhood drive-by shooting on 7-30-15. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423. (Note: Also listed in court records as Samuel Muller.)
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Adan Montano, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of stabbing an 18-year-old woman to death at a house party on 1-5-14. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Aaron T. Parks, charged with sexual assault; A teen on electronic monitoring accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a pregnant college student on 9-10-2014. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Elvin L. Prince, Jr., charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a teenage boy in the Ashburn neighborhood on 5-19-2014. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Kenneth Rhodes, charged with murder; Accused of killing his sister and her husband in January 2012 in Country Club Hills. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Dion Robinson, charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder; Accused of killing one man and leaving another paralyzed in a Humboldt Park neighborhood shooting on 3-30-16. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Sherry Robinson, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of stabbing her 51-year-old boyfriend to death at her home in Kenwood on 5-9-16. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Jason Robles, charged with murder; A Cook County jail inmate accused of fatally beating another inmate in June 2014. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Aaron Rutigliano, charged with murder and aggravated battery; Accused of fatally stabbing one man and injuring two women at a Super Bowl party in 2015. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Vanessa C. Sanders, charged with murder; Accused of stabbing a 28-year-old man to death in West Pullman on 11-28-15. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Shaughnessy Simms, charged with first-degree murder; Charged with killing the father of his girlfriend’s child after an argument at a West Side home on 12-27-13. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Aaron Smith and Tierra Williams, both charged with first-degree murder; Woman and her boyfriend accused in the fatal beating death of a man who tried to steal a large quantity of marijuana on 3-26-2014. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Mubashra Uddin, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of dropping her newborn baby to her death from the 8th floor window of an Uptown to hide the baby from her parents on 11-11-15. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Lisamarie Villasana, charged with murder; Accused of fatally beating her 5-year-old stepdaughter on 5-7-2015. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Qawmane Wilson, charged with Eugene Spencer and Loriana Johnson (convicted), charged with murder and various other charges; Accused of arranging the 2012 murder of Yolanda Holmes, an Uptown hair stylist and Wilson’s mother, for insurance money. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Rayshon Williams, charged with Derrick Williams, each charged with first-degree murder and armed robbery; Accused of fatally shooting a UPS worker in a botched robbery on 11-10-13. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Shannon D. Williams, charged with first-degree murder and armed robbery; Accused of fatally shooting a man during an armed robbery in Austin on 4-18-2014. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Bernard Williams, charged with one count of murder and one count of armed robbery with a firearm for the slaying of Chicago Police Officer David Blake on 11-22-2010. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Koman Willis, charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery / discharge of a firearm; Accused of fatally shooting 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins and wounding her father on 03-11-2013. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
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