WEDNESDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS*
6:15 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago fast-food workers will rally at a local McDonald’s before traveling to Springfield to urge state lawmakers to pass HB 198, which would raise the state minimum wage to $15/hour by 2022. 23 N. Western Ave. Contact: Jennifer Owens, (312) 218-8785 or jennifer@fightfor15.org.
8 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Illinois State Police will be conducting a distracted driving detail, which will include a media photo opportunity. Ramp from Montrose Avenue to I-90 southbound. Contact: (217) 782-6637 or PIO@isp.state.il.us. (Note: Media parking and staging will be on the ramp. Please do not parking on the shoulder of the interstate.)
8 a.m. — (NORTHBROOK) North Shore Annual Economic Outlook Breakfast with keynote by BMO Private Bank US Chief Investment Officer Jack Ablin on “What to Expect Under President Trump.” Hilton Northbrook Hotel, 2855 Milwaukee Ave., Northbrook. Contact: (847) 498-5555.
8:30 a.m. – (LISLE) The Arc of Illinois’ 67th Annual Convention, “Living with Purpose, Passion and Possibilities” for parents and professionals working with individuals with intellectual and or developmental disabilities. Also April 27. Hilton Lisle Naperville Hotel, 3003 Corporate W. Dr., Lisle. Contact: (815) 464-1832.
9 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Social Media Strategies Summit kicks off with day of social media training. Through April 28. Union League Club, 65 W. Jackson. Contact: info@gsmiweb.com or (888) 409-4418.
9 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, “Global Wireless Communications: Present and Future.” Through April 28. Holiday Inn Mart Plaza River North, 350 W. Wolf Point Plaza. Contact: wtsi@csupomona.edu or (909) 869-3831.
10 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Environmental justice and labor leaders press conference to announce plans for the upcoming People’s Climate March. Heald Square Memorial, northeast corner of State and Wacker. Contact: Izabela Miltko-Ivkovich, (708) 655-9681 or miltkoi@seiu1.org.
10 a.m. — (WHEATON) Save Abandoned Babies Foundation hosts Tree of Hope dedication ceremony to remember newborn girl found dead in August 2016 in backpack. Seven Gables Park, 1750 S. Naperville Rd., Wheaton. Contact: Dawn Geras, (312) 440-0229 (cell) or dawn@saveabandonedbabies.org.
10 a.m. — (CHICAGO) City Council Committee on Human Relations meets to discuss hate crimes. City Hall, Council Chambers, 121 N. LaSalle. Contact: (312) 744-8734.
10:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago Board of Education meets. CPS Loop Office, Garden Level Board Room, 42 W. Madison. Contact: (773) 553-1620.
11:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin speaks to the City Club of Chicago. Maggiano’s, 111 W. Grand Ave. Contact: info@cityclub-chicago.com or (312) 565-6500.
12:15 p.m. — (CHICAGO) To highlight Overflow Action Month and raise awareness, Friends of the Chicago River members invite public to take part in giant group photo event on the Riverwalk, with photos to be taken from boats. River Teater, Riverwalkj between Clark and LaSalle. Contact: Margaret Frisbie, (312) 939-0490, ext. 22.
5 p.m. — (NAPERVILLE) Steinway Piano Gallery Chicago hosts ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new piano warehouse, and recital space for local muci teachers and their stidents.1600 Shore Rd., Unit B, Naperville. Contact: (630) 325-0500 or ahancock@steinway.com. (Note: Media should RSVP.)
5:30 p.m. — (ARLINGTON HEIGHTS) Taxpayer rights advocate Dan Pilla discusses President Trump’s proposed tax plan. Heartland Institute, 3939 N. WIlke Rd., Arlington Heights. Contact: (312) 377-4000.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Enlace Chicago hosts its annual fundraiser, “Noche de Estrellas,” honorung the Dramers Unidos Scholarship Fund awardees. Mi Tierra Restaurant, 2528 S. Kedzie. Contact: spinalorca@enlacechicago.org.
WEDNESDAY’S COURT DOCKET*
9:30 a.m. call — (BRIDGEVIEW) Lance McDonald, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of beating his stepfather to death with a hammer in Lyons in July 2016. Status. Bridgeview Courthouse, 10220 S. 76th Ave., Bridgeview. 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 — (MAYWOOD) Johnathan Condrey, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of stabbing his girlfriend, 37-year-old Mackie Cheshire, to death then dumping her body at a Bensenville golf course. Status. Maywood Courthouse, 1500 Maybrook Dr., Maywood. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423. (Note: Also spelled in court records at Jonathan Condrey.)
10 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Milton Anderson, charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault; Accused of sexually assaulting a woman he followed off a CTA Red Line train in Rogers Park in Dec. 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) 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) Delshawn Cotton, charged with murder; Accused in a fatal Fourth of July 2013 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) Andre Davis, charged with Derrick Hilliard, both charged with murder; A man previously exonerated after serving 32 years in an unrelated rape case, now accused in the murder of a man in a dice game on 10-7-2013. 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) Tavaris Dean and Keonte Hill, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man at a West Englewood gas station on 10-13-16. 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) Christopher Doehring, sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to home invasion; pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder, accused in the deaths of two people in September 2009 on the Northwest 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) Paul Forbes, charged with murder, aggravated fleeing and aggravated battery; Accused of causing a crash during a police chase that left a 66-year-old man and an 88-year-old woman in Aug. 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) Giovanni Garcia, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of aiming for a man but instead shooting and killing his 23-year-old girlfriend in West Elsdon on 4-8-16. 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) Shaqeil Quenshaun Kimber, charged with murder and aggravated battery; Accused of fatally stabbing one woman and wounding another in Park Manor on 5-20-16. 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) 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) Travion Lockett, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting Daysha Wright on 3-9-16 in West Town. 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) Corey Morgan, charged with Dwright Boone-Doty and Kevin Edwards, 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) Samuel Parsons-Salas, charged with first-degree murder: Accused in a double murder during an Albany Park home invasion on 9-21-2009. 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) Bryan Perkins and Sokito Taylor, co-defendant Dashawn Martin, 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) Roderick Pickett, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of the child abuse death of his 2-month-old granddaughter while he was babysitting on 7-24-16 in Austin. 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) Dantis Porter, charged with Dominique Smith, charged with aggravated battery to a child; Both charged in the beating death of Smith’s 1-year-old son on 12-23-2015. 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 Roberson, charged with kidnapping and sexual assault; Accused of sexually assaulting a woman who worked at a River North bookstore, then beating her husband when he tried to help her in Aug. 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) 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) Thomas Santiago, charged with murder; Accused of intentionally running over a man with his SUV 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) 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.
10 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Jimmie Terrell Smith, charged in five rapes and murders of women and girls between 2006 and 2009, including two 14-year-old girls he allegedly kidnapped. 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) Darwin Sorrells, charged with Darren Sorrells, both charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder; Brothers accused of shooting at a stranger and instead fatally shooting Dwyane Wade’s cousin 32-year-old Nykea Aldridge, who was pushing a stroller in Parkway Gardens on 8-26-16. 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) Willa Wickerson, charged with first-degree murder; Accused in the death of 1-month-old Timothy Harmon in Englewood on 12-7-16. 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) Carlos Wilson, charged with first-degree murder; An Illinois Institute of Technology student charged with fatally beating a fellow student with a tree branch on the school’s Bronzeville campus on 1-28-16. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
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