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WEDNESDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS*
*** 6 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Union workers and community activists board buses to attend Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget address in Springfield. Chicago Teachers Union parking lot, 1901 W. Carroll Ave. Contact: Nathan Ryan, (920) 445-3920 or nathan@grassrootscollaborative.org.
9 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Journey for Justice Alliance, in partnership with national coalition of parents, students, educators and activists, launches #WeChoose campaign, demanding education equity and combating school privatization. City Hall, Room 201, 121 N. LaSalle Dr. Contacts: Jitu Brown Journey for Justice Alliance National Director brothajitu@gmail.com 1 773 317 6343
10 a.m. — (CHICAGO) City Council committees meet at City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle.
–10 a.m. Pedestrian and Traffic Safety in Room 201A. Contact: (312) 744-6813.
–11 a.m. License and Consumer Protection in Room 201A. Contact: (312) 744-3180.
10 a.m. — (CHICAGO) 2017 Chicago Auto Show. Through Feb. 20. McCormick Place, 2301 S. Lake Shore Dr. Contact: Mark Bilek, (630) 424-6082 or mbilek@drivechicago.com; or Jennifer Morand, (630) 424-6084 or jmorand@drivechicago.com.
10 a.m. – (CHICAGO) Women Driving Excellence hosts various activities at the Chicago Auto Show to celebrate innovative and accomplished businesswomen in Chicago. McCormick Place, 2301 S. King Dr. Contact: Beth Rosen, (847) 514-6146; or Michelle Mekky, michelle@mekkymedia.com.
10:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Metra Board of Directors meeting, followed immediately by a Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation board meeting. Metra General Offices, Board Room, 547 W. Jackson Blvd. Contact: (312) 322-6900.
Noon — (CHICAGO) Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago hosts panel discussion on “The Supreme Court: Past, Present and Future” with University of Chicago Professor of Law Geoffrey Stone. McGuireWoods LLP, 77 W. Wacker Dr. Contact: Kathy Miller, miller@crfc.org.
Noon — (BENSENVILLE) Bensenville officials take part in groundbreaking for DuPage County industrial development. 350 N. York Rd., Bensenville. Contact: Evelyn Francisco, evelyn@caryl.com or (201) 796-7788.
Noon – (CHICAGO) UIC African American Cultural Center presents Binge Fest, during which participants watch and discuss episodes of the web series “The Movement.” Wednesdays in February. African American Cultural Center Gallery, Addams Hall, 830 S. Halsted St. Contact: Carlos Sadovi, (312) 355-2491 or csadovi@uic.edu.
3:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) A coalition of organizations, UofC Resists, will delivered a letter to the school’s Institute of Politics, then lead a rally calling on the school to “stop providing a platform to surrogates of the Trump administration” in the wake of former Trump campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, being invited to speak. 5700 S. University. Contact: Emilio Comay del Junco, (347) 244-3562 or emiliocd@gmail.com.
*** 5 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine leads a march against President Trump’s agenda with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Starts at Tribune Tower, 435 N. Michigan Ave., to Trump Tower, 401 N. Wabash Ave. Until 7 p.m. Contact: Tarik Khalil, (708) 369-7753.
*** 5 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago Headline Club holds a panel discussion about reporting on marginalized communities. DePaul University, 14 E. Jackson St., lower level 102. Contact: programming@headlineclub.org.
5 p.m. — (EVANSTON) Northwestern University hosts “Muslims and Women/Surveillance and Harassment,” the third meeting of the Wildcat Trump Forum, where colleagues and students discuss the election and presidency of Donald Trump. University Hall, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston. Contact: Alex Gordon, (847) 224-8458 or alexgordon2017@u.northwestern.edu.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago Council on Global Affairs hosts panel discussion on “Debate: Is Human Rights Dead?” with speakers including Northwestern Prof. Ian Hurd, and University of Chicago Law Prof. Eric Posner. 130 E. Randolph. Contact: (312) 726-3860.
6 p.m. – (DES PLAINES) Oakton Community College’s Business Department hosts brand-building expert Tim Calkins to review commercials from Super Bowl LI and discuss what makes them effective or ineffective. Oakton Community College Des Plaines campus, Room 1606, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines. Contact: Tom Byrne, tbyrne@oakton.edu.
6 p.m. — (DOLTON) Dolton mayoral candidate Duane Muhammad will conduct a town hall meeting to discuss the current financial status of the village. Dolton Bowl, 1401 E. Sibley Blvd., Dolton. Contact: Delmarie Cobb, (773) 373-3860.
6:15 p.m. – (CHICAGO) Chicago Public Library hosts financial literacy program about handling 401(k), pension or other employer-sponsored retirement plans. Clearing Public Library, 6423 W. 63rd Place. Contact: Alexandria Trimble, press@chipublib.org or (312) 747-4050.
7 p.m. – (CHICAGO) Saxophone player Chris Potter performs with the University of Illinois at Chicago Jazz Ensemble during the annual High School Jazz Festival. UIC Student Center East, Illinois Room, 750 S. Halsted. Contact: Carlos Sadovi, (312) 355-2491 or csadovi@uic.edu.
7 p.m. – (DOWNERS GROVE) League of Women Voters hosts panel about sex trafficking in DuPage County. Downers Grove Fire Department, Admin Building, 5420 Main St., Downers Grove (enter parking just west of Main Street from 55th). Contact: Hilary Denk, (630) 725-8066 or j.denk@comcast.net.
8 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Cameras are invited to film/photograph the first 15 minutes of the opening night performance of “Men Are From Mars — Women Are From Venus Live!” Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut. Contact: Kailey Hansen, (847) 494-3173.
WEDNESDAY’S COURT DOCKET*
9 a.m. call — (MARKHAM) Gregory D. Miles, charged with first-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and endangering the life of a child; Accused in the death of his one-year-old stepson in Calumet City, who suffered burns from scalding hot bathwater. Status. Markham Courthouse, 16501 S. Kedzie Pkwy., Markham. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (MARKHAM) Owen T. Stephney, charged with murder; Accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death in Lansing in September 2015. Status. Markham Courthouse, 16501 S. Kedzie Pkwy., Markham. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Daniel Aguilera, charged with criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse; A Chicago police officer accused of sexually assaulting a teenage relative. 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) Devin Aldridge and Mark Hall, both charged with murder; Accused in the 12-19-2013 shootings that killed Deacon Willie Cooper and musician Eric Davis. 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) Demarco Bennett, 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) Dannee Brewer, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting 27-year-old Quante Little in Garfield Ridge on 1-16-16. 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) 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) Devonte Dotson, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man during a domestic dispute inside an apartment near O’Hare on 6-12-2015. 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) Gilbert Feliciano, found guilty of first-degree murder; A homeless man accused of killing a 94-year-old Northwest Side man outside an Aldi grocery in 2011. 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) Williams Gardner, charged with murder; Accused of killing a man and injuring a teenager in a West Side shooting on 5-25-2014. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423. (Note: Also spelled “William” in court records.)
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Christopher Harp, charged with first-degree murder; Accused in the 5-7-15 shooting of 28-year-old Antonio Galtney 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) Samuel Harviley, charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and robbery; Accused of shooting an off-duty Chicago Police officer during a robbery in Washington Heights on 3-21-16. 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) Cliffon Johnson, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man on a Back of the Yards porch on 10-24-2014. 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) Phillip M. Levato, charged with involuntary manslaughter; Accused of throwing a punch that led to Kristopher Weiss’s death on 7-22-16 in Bridgeport. 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) Keith Martin, charged with murder and attempted murder; Accused in a fatal domestic shooting from 7-12-2014. 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) Michael Mays, found guilty of murder, charged with Sakhee Hardy-Johnson and Meiko Buchanan; Accused in the 9-26-2013 shooting that killed rapper Leonard “L’A Capone” Anderson. Post-trial motions/possible sentencing. 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) Derrick Miles, charged with first-degree murder; Found guilty of fatally shooting a Cicero man in May 2012 in retaliation for a previous shooting. Post-trial motions/possible sentencing. 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) Brittney Mitchell, charged with Orhan Cerimagic; both charged with murder and home invasion in a home invasion that left an accomplice dead and a resident fatally stabbed in Sept. 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) 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) Leszek Pawelkowski, charged with one count each of murder and home invasion armed with a firearm; accused in the 10-27-2010 home invasion and beating of Shai Miller, a jewelry supply business owner. Status. Cook County Criminal Court, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Brandon Perkins, charged with Brittney Mitchell and Orhan Cerimagic, all charged with first-degree murder; Accused in a home invasion that left an accomplice dead and a resident fatally stabbed in Sept. 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) Joshua Poe, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting his friend on 2-4-2015 after smoking synthetic marijuana and questioning him about his loyalty. 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) Jafeth Ramos, charged with Diego Uribe Cruz, each charged first-degree murder; Charged with the massacre of six members of a Gage Park family in February 2016. 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) Sabrina Shaffer, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally beating a 63-year-old man inside his Uptown apartment on 12-26-15. 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) Richard D. Smith, charged with murder; Accused of accidentally fatally shooting his friend 21-year-old Otis Richmond and dropping him off at St. Bernard Hospital. Trial. 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) Tarell Smith, charged with aggravated domestic battery, aggravated battery with a firearm and home invasion; Accused of shooting the mother of his children in their West Pullman neighborhood home on 10-29-15. 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) 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) Elijah Timatyos, charged with Ioan Lela Jr. and Michael Bembea, all charged with first-degree murder; Accused of beating 71-year-old man Allen Levin to death during a home invasion in the Albany Park neighborhood on 1-27-16. 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) Marlon Welton, charged with murder; Accused of shooting into a crowd on 6-16-2015, killing a teen who had been watching two women fight. 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) Frederick Woods-Rivas, charged with first-degree murder; A man arrested in Minnesota and charged with fatally shooting a teen in Austin on 4-26-2014. (Note: Also spelled Rivas-Wood in court documents.) 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) Andrew Zamora, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man in a car in July 2015 in little Village. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
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