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WEDNESDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS*
7:30 a.m. – (HOFFMAN ESTATES) Hoffman Estates Chamber of Commerce hosts annual Mayor’s Update Breakfast. Sears Centre Arena, 5333 Prairie Stone Pkwy., Hoffman Estates. Contact: (847) 781-9100.
8 a.m. – (PALOS PARK) Palos Park residents can converse with Mayor John Mahoney and officers at the police department’s “Coffee with a Cop” event. Plush Horse, 12301 S. 86th Ave., Palos Park. Contact: Joe Miller, (708) 671-3771, jmiller@palospark.org.
8 a.m. – (CAROL STREAM) 6th annual Illinois Truck Enforcement Association conference. Holiday Inn, 150 S. Gary Ave., Carol Stream. Contact: (847) 440-4832 or info@illinoistruckcops.com.
8:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Jewish Vocational Service Chicago and the Illinois Business Immigration Coalition host “Strictly Business: Opening Pathways to the American Dream” with former Exelon CEO John W. Rowe. Standard Club, 320 S. Plymouth Ct. Contact: (312) 673-3403.
*** 8:45 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Community activists attend a budget committee hearing and hold a press conference calling for the mayor and city council to use $15 million in property tax rebates for violence prevention programs. City Hall, 2nd floor, 121 N. LaSalle. Contact: Michelle Pantoja, (773) 934-6807, mpantoja@bppncchicago.org; or Olivia Abrecht, (202) 374-5794, abrecht@bpncchicago.org.
9 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Metropolitan Planning Council hosts program on “Ideas to Action: Turning Your Stretch of the River into a Neighborhood Destination.” Chicago Maritime Museum, 1200 W. 35th St. Contact: (312) 922-5616 or info@metroplanning.org.
9 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Illinois Riverboat Board meets, followed by meeting of the Illinois Video Gaming Board. Bilandic Building, 160 N. LaSalle St. Contact: Mary Boruta, mary.boruta@igb.illinois.gov or (312) 814-6190.
9:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Ald. Roberto Maldonado, the Illinois Policy Institute and food cart vendors conduct press conference and rally to support proposed ordinance that would reduce regulations and lower startups costs for food cart vendors. City Hall, 2nd Floor, 121 N. LaSalle Dr. Contact: Melanie Krakauer, (312) 346-5700 or mkrakauer@illinoispolicy.org.
*** 9:45 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Black Caucus members of the Chicago city council hold a press conference calling on the mayor to reform contracts with police unions. City Hall, 2nd floor, 121 N. LaSalle. Contact: Bryce Colquitt, (773) 899-1872 or bryce@center4racialjustice.org; Joanna Klonsky, (312) 307-0840 or press@joannaklonsky.com.
10 a.m. — (CHICAGO) City Council meets. City Hall, Council Chambers, 121 N. LaSalle. Contact: (312) 744-6870.
10:15 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Students will perform their original work before attending the matinee performance of “Hamilton”, followed by a Q&A with members of the cast. The PrivateBank Theatre, 18 W. Monroe. Contact: Amanda Meyer, (847) 778-7069. (Note: Media should arrive no later than 10:15 a.m. and will need to be self-contained.)
10:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago Board of Education meets. CPS Loop Office, Garden Level Board Room, 42 W. Madison. Contact: (773) 553-1620.
Noon — (CHICAGO) Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs will present a Tribute to African American Veterans during their 2017 Salute to African American Veterans, including 5 Montford Point Marine Veterans who will be in attendance. Thompson Center, Concourse Level, 100 W. Randolph. Contact: Dave MacDonna, (217) 524-0629 or Dave.MacDonna@illinois.gov.
Noon – (CHICAGO) UIC African American Cultural Center presents Binge Fest, during which participants watch and discuss episodes of the web series “The Movement.” African American Cultural Center Gallery, Addams Hall, 830 S. Halsted St. Contact: Carlos Sadovi, (312) 355-2491 or csadovi@uic.edu.
12:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Illinois Campaign for Political Reform hosts panel discussion, “How Will the Trump Administration Affect Illinois?” Columbia College Chicago, Ferguson Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave. Contact: sarah@ilcampaign.org.
12:30 p.m. — (DES PLAINES) Oakton Community College hosts “Traveling between Two Worlds” with Sujie Man, an IT specialist at the college, discussing her life in China as a journalist and novelist and her transition to living in the U.S. Des Plaines campus, Room 1604, 1600 E. Golf Rd., Des Plaines. Contact: Steve Repsys, (847) 635-1810.
4 p.m. – (ST. CHARLES) City hosts meeting to update the Watershed Plan. Municipal Building, 2 E. Main St., St. Charles. Contact: Karen Young, (630) 377-4405 or kryoung@stcharlesil.gov.
4:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) ASPIRA educators take part in rally and press conference to announce the results of charter system strike vote. Aspira Antonio Pantoja, 3121 N. Pulaski Rd. Contact: Marines Martinez, (708) 275-5472 or mmart103@gmail.com; or Christ Geovanis, (312) 446-4939 or chrisgeovanis@gmail.com.
4:30 p.m. — (GARY, Ind.) Black Lives Matter NWI-Gary members join friends and supporters of the Diggs family for an Enough is Enough rally against police harassment and the killing of the family dog. Gary Police Department, 555 Polk St., Gary, Ind. Contact: gary2ferguson@gmail.com or (219) 885-9150.
5 p.m. – (ST. CHARLES) City hosts Public Education and Outreach meeting. Municipal Building, 2 E. Main St., St. Charles. Contact: Karen Young, (630) 377-4405 or kryoung@stcharlesil.gov.
5:30 p.m. – (EVANSTON) Evanston mayoral candidates discuss their views on issues and take questions before the Rotary Clubs of Evanston. Rotary International, 1560 Sherman Ave., Evanston. Contact: (866) 976-8279.
6 p.m. – (CHICAGO) Center on Halsted hosts meeting on LGBTQ community efforts. Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted St. Contact: (773) 472-6469.
6 p.m. – (AURORA) Kane County sheriff’s office hosts conversation about racial disparities and divisions in the community. Public Library, 101 S. River St., Aurora. Contact: (630) 232-6840.
6 p.m. — (VALPARAISO, Ind.) U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky hosts a “How Would You Balance the Federal Budget?” event with The Concord Coalition. Valparaiso University, 1509 Chapel Dr., Valparaiso, Ind. Contact: Kevin Spicer, Kevin.Spicer@mail.house.gov or (202) 225-2461. (Note: Media should RSVP at 219-795-1844 or online at visclosky.house.gov/contact-pete/budget-rsvp.)
*** 6:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago Police play basketball with Uptown teens at the McCormick Boys and Girls Club, 4835 N. Sheridan. Contact: (312) 745-6110.
6:30 p.m. – (CHICAGO) Book discussion about “Jam on the Vine” by LaShonda K. Barnett as part of the Chicago Public Library’s African American Heritage Month events. Canaryville Branch, 642 W. 43rd St. Contact: Meghan Miller, (312) 747-4050 or press@chipublib.org.
7 p.m. — (LAKE ZURICH) Film lecturer Reid Schultz discusses his 2017 Oscar predictions. Ela Area Public Library, 275 Mohawk Trail, Lake Zurish. Contact: (847) 438-3433.
7 p.m. – (CHICAGO) Ironside Bar & Gallery in River North hosts five-keg Pipeworks tap during its weekly “Yacht Rock Wednesdays” party. Ironside Bar & Galley, 546 N. Wells St. Contact: Dave Andrews, (847) 909-5511.
WEDNESDAY’S COURT DOCKET*
9 a.m. call — (BRIDGEVIEW) Christopher Wyma, charged with John Granat, Ehab Qasem, and Mohammed Salahat (sentenced); Found guilty of the murder of Granat’s parents in unincorporated Palos Heights. Post-trial motions/possible sentencing. Bridgeview Courthouse, 10220 S. 76th Ave., Bridgeview. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
10 a.m. call — (SKOKIE) Jovanny Martinez, charged with homicide of an unborn child and aggravated domestic battery; Accused of punching his pregnant girlfriend in the abdomen in a fight, causing her to miscarry on 1-8-13. Status. Skokie Courthouse, 5600 Old Orchard Rd., Skokie. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Eliseo Acosta, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting 18-year-old Ricardo C. Mendez-Bucio in a gang dispute in Brighton Park on 4-13-15. 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) Soldon Armstrong, charged with murder; Accused of fatally stabbing a rival during a fight about drugs on 3-1-16 in the 3900 block of West Jackson. 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) Donald Arrington, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of bludgeoning 50-year-old Lloyd White to death after a sexual hookup in Irving Park on 8-31-15. 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) Garland Benson, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man in West Englewood on 5-14-2015. 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) Quentine Bradley, charged with Quan Evans and Robert Nathaniel, each charged with first-degree murder; Accused in a fatal shooting that began as an argument between two girls over clothes in Back of the Yards on 8-26-15. 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) Daniel Brown, charged with murder, attempted murder and being a fugitive from justice; Accused in a gun battle with police on 10-7-2014 at an Englewood apartment that wounded a police captain. 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 Bryant, charged first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man in the head in Rogers Park on 7-20-16. 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) Ivan Cotto, charged with criminal sexual assault; A security guard at a Logan Park neighborhood school accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student in the school’s auditorium. 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) Quan Evans, charged with Quentine Bradley and Robert Nathaniel, each charged with first-degree murder; Accused in a fatal shooting that began as an argument between two girls over clothes in Back of the Yards on 8-26-15. 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) Manuel Gonzalez, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man outside a Wicker Park bar after an argument over gang affiliation on 9-14-2013. 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) 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) Martel Halbert, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man riding a motorcycle in the Austin neighborhood on 5-4-2014. 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) Marcus Harris, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a 31-year-old man in Englewood on 3-15-16. 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) 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.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Arronis Jackson, charged with concealment of a homicidal death, and Paul Meyers, charged with murder; Accused of killing Meyers’ girlfriend Laneesha Miller and placing her body in four suitcases, then dumping them in the Little Calumet River in September 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) Natrell Jackson and Michael Whitehead, both charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a 30-year-old woman on 2-26-16 in Armour Square. 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) Laquan King, charged with two counts of first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting two teenage boys as they placed dice in North Lawndale on 8-16-15. 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) Edgar M. Martinez, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man in Albany Park on 5-27-2015. 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) Kevin Mason, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a 62-year-old man in a University Village apartment building on 1-26-16. 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) 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) Rasheed Mujkovic, charged with Florin Mulosmani, both charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a 23-year-old man in a Portage Park store over Memorial Day weekend 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) Shawn Randall, charged with murder; A rapper accused of fatally shooting his rival in front of the man’s children on 7-17-2015. Arraignment. 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) Manuela Rodriguez, charged with murder; A Little Village woman accused of beating, suffocating and using a power saw to cut the throat of her infant granddaughter because the child wouldn’t stop crying on 3-9-2015. 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) James W. Rogers, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of shooting another man to death in the South Side London Town neighborhood on 1-25-16. 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) Jessica Sanders, charged with a hate crime; Woman videotaped using racial slurs at Margarita Fest in July in the South Shore neighborhood. 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) Demetrius Spencer, charged with Robert Goodman, each charged with first-degree murder; Two South Side men accused of fatally shooting a man on Nov. 30, 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) 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.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) TreDaniel Williams, charged with murder and attempted murder; A Minnesota man accused of fatally shooting one man and wounded another in Robbins on 8-8-16. 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) Shikita Woods, charged with first-degree murder and reckless homicide; Accused of trying to run over her husband three days after they were married, but instead killing a newspaper deliveryman on the South Side on 4-12-15. 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) Brandon Young, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally stabbing a friend after they smoked crack cocaine together on 10-31-15. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
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