UPDATES WITH ADDITION MARKED ***
TUESDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS*
*** 9 a.m. – (CHICAGO) Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson will host the first meeting of the Community Policing Advisory Panel. Public Safety Headquarters, 3510 S. Michigan Ave. Contact: Police News Affairs, (312) 745-6110. (NOTE: Members of the media will be permitted to shoot B-roll only during opening remarks by Johnson, followed by a brief introduction at the meeting.)
10 a.m. — (CHICAGO) City Council committees meet at City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle.
–10 a.m. Committees, Rules and Ethics in Council Chambers. Contact: (312) 744-3067.
–10:30 a.m. Housing and Real Estate in Room 201A. Contact: (312) 744-3075.
*** 10 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Gov. Bruce Rauner introduces teams to improve student success at Chicago State University. Chicago State University, Cook Administration Building, President’s Gallery (Room 313), 9501 S. King Dr. Contact: Catherine.Kelly@illinois.gov.
10:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Official VIP Ribbon Cutting and Open House for the new Chicago Children’s Theatre in the former 12th District police station. The Station, 100 S. Racine. Contact: Jay Kelly, jkelly@lcwa.com; or (773) 227-0180.
10:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) The Chicago Children’s Theatre will hold a ribbon cutting for the opening of its new permanent home — an $8.5 million adaptive reuse of the former 12th District Chicago Police Station. 100 S. Racine Ave. Contact: Jay Kelly, jkelly@lcwa.com, (312) 565-4623.
11 a.m. — (ROUND LAKE BEACH/WAUKEGAN) Lake County Division of Transportation hosts community meetings to discuss its upcoming Paratransit Market Study. 11 a.m. at Cultural & Civic Center, 2006 N. Civic Center Way, Round Lake Beach; and 3 p.m. at Park Place Senior Center, 414 S. Lewis Ave., Waukegan. Contact: Ashley Lucas, (847) 377-7358 or alucas@lakecountyil.gov.
*** Noon — (CHICAGO) Blue 1647 hosts “Hack Chicago” a day-long hackathon event designed to expose students to computer programming and to generate interest in a future in cyber security. Blue 1647 Innovation Center, 1647 S. Blue Island Ave. Contact: Wendell Mosby, (312) 572-9824 or wendell@blue1647.com.
*** 1:30 p.m. — (BLOOMINGTON) First Lady Diana Rauner and State Rep. Dan Brady visit Chestnut Health Systems. 1003 Martin Luther King Dr., Bloomington. Contact: Catherine.Kelly@illinois.gov. (Note: No additional media availability.)
2 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Key speakers and organizers of the Jan. 21 Women’s March on Chicago will be available to press and announce details of march and route. Chicago City Hall second floor, 121 N. LaSalle St. Contact: Jessica Scheller, (773) 551-8580, Jessica.media@womens121marchonchicago.org.
5 p.m. — (DES PLAINES) Ribbon-cutting ceremony for official opening of Oakton Community College’s new $2 million student center. Oakton Community College Des Plaines campus, Room 1530, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines. Contact: Steve Repsys, (847) 635-1810 or srepsys@oakton.edu.
5 p.m. – (CHICAGO) The Chicago Park District will host the fourth of five public open house meetings to discuss the future of the Park District natural areas in Southeast Chicago. Whitney Young Library, 7901 S. King Drive. Contact: hello@theplanningcoalition.org.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Youth for Black Lives will meet with Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson to discuss police accountability around alleged incidents of brutality. Walter Payton College Prep, 1034 N. Wells St. Contact: (773) 850-0256 or youthforblacklives@gmail.com. (Note: Press conference at 5:15-5:45 p.m. prior to meeting; and second press conference after the meeting.)
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago Council on Global Affairs hosts panel discussion on “Syria: An Inside View on the Humanitarian Crisis.” with speakers including Dr. Samer Attar, of Northwestern Medicine, and Dr. M. Zaher Sahloul, founder of the American Relief Coalition for Syria. 130 E. Randolph St. Contact: (312) 726-3860.
6 p.m. — (MATTESON) U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly hosts a State of the District/Community Swearing-in Ceremony event to thank constituents, elected officials and local stakeholders for their support and encouragement. Holiday Inn Matteson, Oak Room, 500 Holiday Plaza Dr., Matteson. Contact: Mary Paleologos, (708) 679-0078 or mary.paleologos@mail.house.gov.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Resident Association of Greater Englewood hosts village meeting to discuss a new high school, the Large Lots Program and highlights of the past year. Hamilton Park, 513 W. 72nd St. Contact: (866) 845-1032 or joinrage@gmail.com.
TUESDAY’S COURT DOCKET*
9:30 a.m. call — (MAYWOOD) Martin Alvarado Jr., charged with murder; Accused of beating his girlfriend’s baby to death after the child urinated on him while he was changing a diaper on 4-9-2015. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9 a.m. call — (MAYWOOD) Joseph Kestian, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of strangling his elderly mother in October 2010 in a drunken fury. Status. Maywood Courthouse, Room 103, 1500 Maybrook Dr., Maywood. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Ulises Almaraz, charged with murder; A jealous boyfriend accused of slitting a Pilsen man’s throat at a bar for talking to his girlfriend on 5-30-2015. Status. 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 Briscoe and Armonte Hooper, both charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a 25-year-old man in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place on 1-23-16. 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) Trae Chatmon, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of stabbing an elderly woman to death then setting her Washington Park apartment on fire on 10-26-2015. 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) Devon Clark, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on 1-8-2014. 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) Matthew Cobbs, Eddie Simmons and Ahmad Walker, all charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man in Old Town on 11-16-2014. 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) LaDonna Curry, charged with Audreianna McNeil, each charged with murder; Accused of luring a club promoter to a home where he was robbed and fatally shot 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) Cedryck Davis and Deandre Thompson, each charged with attempted first-degree murder; Accused of shooting a high school basketball coach who was paralyzed while shielding his daughter from gunfire on their way to school on 1-30-14. 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) Maria Espinoza-Perez, charged with first-degree murder; A stay-at-home mom accused of fatally beating her 3-year-old daughter on 5-18-2014, then falsely telling police the girl stopped breathing during a home invasion. 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) Jose Guzman, charged with murder, home invasion and arson; Accused of murdering his aunt and cousin after trying to rob them at their Southwest Side home on 5-28-2015. Status. County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Eddie Howlett, charged with murder; Accused of beating a 42-year-old woman to death in Back of the Yards on 4-21-16. 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) Borgie Humphrey, charged with murder; A man who served 25 years in prison for a double murder, now charged in a cold case murder from 1997. 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) Howard Hunt, charged with murder; Accused of fatally stabbing a woman during a domestic fight in their apartment on 4-1-2015. 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) Michael K. Johnson, charged with murder, aggravated battery and aggravated assault; Accused of handing a gun to a person who shot and killed a man on 7-6-2014. 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) Brett Kahn, charged with aggravated battery and official misconduct; A Chicago Police officer who allegedly hit a man in the head with a baton in 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) Deonte Logan, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting two nephews of an Illinois state senator on 7-5-15 because the brothers did not intervene when he was beaten up at a July 4th party. 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) Roberto Madrigal, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a 13-year-old bystander in a crowd gathered to watch two girls fight on 2-8-2015. 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) Audreianna McNeil, charged with LaDonna Curry, each charged with murder; Accused of luring a club promoter to a home where he was robbed and fatally shot 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) Terrance Meredith, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting his fiancée in front of their 10-year-old daughter in Roseland on 8-29-16. 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) Jacob Morales, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting 26-year-old Andre Donner Jr. in Englewood on 10-13-15. 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) Jimmie Ollie, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man on 5-29-2014 in Englewood. 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) Dominique Parkman, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting someone on 5-28-2013 as part of an ongoing feud stemming from a 2012 murder over a gold necklace. 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) Jimmy Payton, charged with reckless homicide and aggravated DUI; Accused of driving drunk and crashing into a U.S. Postal Service truck in West Garfield Park on 7-16-16, leaving his passenger dead. 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) Ivan Sanchez, charged with reckless homicide; Accused in a fatal drag racing crash on Lower Wacker Drive in July 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) Charles Southern, charged with first-degree murder; A man accused alongside two teens of fatally shooting a man at an Avalon Park party on 5-31-2014. 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) Eugene Spencer, charged with Qawmane Wilson 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) Louis Tabor, charged with first-degree murder; Accused in a fatal shooting on 7-22-2011. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California. Contact: State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Randon Walker, charged with first-degree murder; A Mississippi man charged with a 9-20-2013 shooting in Humboldt Park. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
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