TUESDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS*
8 a.m. — (CHICAGO) City Department of Planning and Development hosts open house community meeting for draft redevelopment plan for North Branch Industrial Corridor. UI Labs, 1415 N. Cherry Ave. Contact: (773) 348-950 or yourvoice@ward43.org.
8:30 a.m. — (SKOKIE) Oakton Community College hosts “Gaining the Edge” small business expo. Until 1 p.m. 7701 N. Lincoln Ave., Skokie. Contact: Steve Repsys, (847) 635-1810; or Beverly Projansky, bprojans@oakton.edu.
*** 9 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Mayor Rahm Emanuel delivers opening remarks at the Opportunity Youth Summit, hosted by Thrive Chicago to address the needs of out of school and out of work youth. Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall, 3rd Floor, 78 E. Washington St. Contact: (312) 744-3334 or press@cityofchicago.org. (Note: There will be no media availability following this event.)
9 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Members of the Jane Addams Senior Caucus and Fair Economy Illinois conduct press conference before going to Racine, Wisconsin, to join Wisconsin grassroots volunteers to demand House Speaker Paul Ryan drop his plan to take healthcare from millions of people. Jane Addams Senior Caucus offices, 1111 N. Wells St. Contact: Anna Marin, (312) 339-3125 or anna@seniorcaucus.org.
*** 10 a.m. — (CHICAGO) The Chicago Police Memorial Foundation holds a brief ceremony to honor a Chicago Police officer who rendered aid to two shooting victims while off-duty. Chicago Patrolmen’s Federal Credit Union, 1407 W. Washington Blvd. Contact: John Gordon, (773) 706-4484 or j.gordon@CPDmemorial.org.
11 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Blaze Pizza locations host Pi Day celebration, where customers can build their own pizza for just $3.14. Until 1 p.m.
-953 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago;
-227 E. Ontario St. Chicago;
-24 S. Clinton St., Chicago;
-6550 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago;
-7122 W. Cermak Rd., Berwyn;
-4999 Old Orchard Center, Skokie;
-1737 Sherman Ave., Evanston;
-5712 W. Touhy Ave., Niles;
-6230-A W. 95th St., Oak Lawn;
-15903 S. Harlem Ave., Tinley Park; and
-24 Orland Square Dr., Orland Park.
Contact: Jill Katz, (312) 404-5218 or jill@jklspr.com.
Noon — (CHICAGO) David O’Sullivan, Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, speaks on “President Trump and the EU: A New Era of Transatlantic Relations” with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Conference Center, 1st floor, 130 E. Randolph. Contact: (312) 726-3860.
Noon — (BARRINGTON) Activists from Food & Water Watch and local community members will call on Rep. Peter Roskam to defend the EPA from President Trump’s cuts. Rep. Roskam’s office, 200 S. Hough St., Barrington. Contact: Flora Cardoni, (716) 830-9079 or fcardoni@fwwlocal.org.
1 p.m. — (DOWNERS GROVE) Illinois Tollway hosts 2017 Professional Engineering Services Networking Event. Until 4 p.m. DoubleTree Suites & Conference Center, 2111 Butterfield Rd., Downers Grove. Contact: Dan Rozek, (630) 241-6800, ext. 2392, or drozek@getipass.com.
*** 2:45 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Mayor Rahm Emanuel joins the Chicago Bulls and youth at Parker Community Academy for a Becoming A Man (BAM) circle. Francis W. Parker Elementary Community Academy, 318 W. Normal Pkwy. Contact: (312) 744-3334 or press@cityofchicago.org. (Note: There will be no media availability following this event. Media parking is available at a lot adjacent to the school.)
5:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Cook County Commissioner 12th District John Fritchey hosts re-election kick-off party. Hubbard Inn, 110 W. Hubbard St. Contact: Zach Martin, (312) 448-8014 or zach@newchicagollc.com.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago novelists Patricia Skalka Lynn Sloan and Joyce Burns Zeiss discuss writing as a second career in a Society of Midland Authors program. Cliff Dwellers Club, 22nd Floor, 200 S. Michigan Ave. Contact: Greg Borzo, (312) 636-8968 or greg@gregborzo.com.
6:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Point Magazine and Contratiempo host panel discussion on immigration, “What is America For?” at a sanctuary church in Pilsen. Lincoln United Methodist Church, 2009 W. 22nd Pl. Contact: (312) 345-3224 or info@thepointmag.com.
7 p.m. — (LISLE) League of Women Voters Downers Grove/Woodridge/Lisle hosts candidate forum for Lisle municipal candidates for mayor, village clerk and village trustee. Village Hall, Board Room, 925 Burlington Ave., Lisle. Contact: Marie Cowan, marierie26@gmail.com.
7:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago’s Irish community celebrates peace and heritage at Old St. Patrick’s annual Siamsa na nGael, honoring Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume. Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave. Contact: Lisa Ripson, (312) 952-7394 or Lisa.ripson@ripsoncommunications.com.
TUESDAY’S COURT DOCKET*
9 a.m. call — (MARKHAM) Robin Erwin, charged with first-degree murder; A woman accused of fatally stabbing her son during fight over ice cream in September 2013 in Sauk Village. Status. Markham Courthouse, 16501 S. Kedzie Pkwy., Markham. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
1 p.m. call — (MARKHAM) Vicente Mendoza, charged with murder; Accused of robbing and fatally shooting a man then leaving his body near a Harvey forest preserve on 12-5-15. 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.
1:30 p.m. call – (WAUKEGAN) David Brocksom, charged with murder; Accused of shooting his estranged wife to death his estranged wife in Gurnee on Sept. 2015. Status. Lake County Criminal Courthouse, 18 N. County St., Waukegan. Contact: Lake County State’s Attorney’s office, (847) 377-3000.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) John Skyblue Antone, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of strangling his friend Bernadette Glomski with electrical cords in her Logan Square apartment 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) Tyrese Bell, charged with murder; A man accused of fatally shooting a cabdriver in North Lawndale on 1-8-2015. 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) 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) 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) Robert Burgess, charged with first-degree murder; An Army veteran charged with shooting a man to death during a robbery attempt in the South Loop on 8-28-16. 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) Aaron Bynum, charged with Keon Frazier and a 14-year-old juvenile, all charged with murder and attempted robbery; Charged in a fatal shooting on 6-14-2015. 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) William Cochran, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a civilian employee of the Chicago Police Department on 9-16-15 in Morgan Park. 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) Stephen Crump, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting 28-year-old Marsolino White in Burnside on Sept. 22, 2015. 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) Miguel A. Garcia, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of stabbing his roommate to death in their Back of the Yards home on 5-28-16. 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) Oscar Garcia and Ezequiel Villanueva, both charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man in a gang dispute in Little Village on Labor Day 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. — (CHICAGO) Kortillious Gipson, pleaded not guilty to murder; Accused of shooting a man on 7-31-2014 during a dispute over drug turf in Humboldt Park. 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) Joseph Gurzejk, charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and aggravated criminal sexual abuse; A substitute teacher at a La Grange elementary school accused of inappropriately touching a student. 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 Hargrow, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man sitting in an Edgewater car on 4-19-2014. 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 Harris IV, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of killing his girlfriend’s 19-month-old daughter found slain in Riverdale on 3-16-14. 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) Joseph Hill, charged with murder; Accused of shooting a 21-year-old man to death in April 2015 after asking if he had any marijuana. 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) Angel Jara, charged with first-degree murder; A 17-year-old charged as an adult with fatally shooting a man in a dispute over money on 4-14-2014. 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) Anthony Malcolm, charged with Nicholas Ayala and Malik Jones (both sentenced), each charged with one count of first-degree murder and robbery; Accused in the 07-10-2012 fatal beating of Delfino Mora, an attack that was posted as a video on Facebook. 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) Burundi A. Martin, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man in front of his family on 10-3-2014. 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) 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) Tyrese Orr, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a woman who called for a ride home from his birthday party in April 2012. 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) Stanley Parker, charged with first-degree murder; Accused in a fatal South Shore shooting from 8-1-2014. 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) 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) Travell Taylor, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting former high school hoops star Jonathan Mills in North Lawndale on 7-25-16. 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) Timothy Ward, charged with first-degree murder; A Carpentersville man accused of fatally shooting Charzelle Hayes during an argument in North Lawndale on 7-18-15. 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) Courtney Watson, charged with first-degree murder; A man accused of fatally shooting a newspaper deliveryman found dead inside his car on 6-23-2014. 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) 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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