THURSDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS*
6:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Northeastern Illinois University students, faculty and supporters conduct a rally before boarding buses to take part in the “Teach Out for Higher Education” in Springfield. NEIU, Park Lot F, 3865 W. Bryn Mawr. Contact: Sophia Mihic, sjmihic@gmail.com or (312) 206-4589.
7 a.m. — (CHICAGO) UIC United Faculty Local 6456 and supporters board buses to join the “Teach Out for Higher Education” rally at the Capitol Building in Springfield. 1016 W. Jackson Blvd. Contact: Jeff Edwards, UICUFJeff@gmail.com.
7:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Members of the Chicago Teachers Union and the University Professionals of Illinois will rally at UIC before taking a bus to take part in the “Teach Out for Higher Education” in Springfield. East side of Student Center East, 850 S. Halsted. Contact: Stacy Davis Gates, stacydavisgates@ctulocal1.com.
7:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) American Red Cross of Chicago & Northern Illinois hosts its 15th annual Heroes Breakfast. Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan. Contact: Joy Squier, (312) 729-6204 or (312) 384-0454 (cell) or jpy.squier@redcross.org.
8:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Northwestern Pritzker School of Law hosts 37th annual Garrett Corporate and Securities Law Institute. Also April 28. Thorne Auditorium, 375 E. Chicago Ave. Contact: Hilary Hurd Anyaso, (847) 491-4887 or h-anayso@northwestern.edu.
9 a.m. — (DES PLAINES) Gender violence prevention workshop features opportunity for social workers, counselors, psychologists, therapists, teachers and others to learn how to engage men as allies, with keynote by Jackson Katz on “Taking It Personally: Why Gender Violence is an Issue for All Men.” Oakton Community College, Rooms 1604-1610, 1600 E. Golf Rd., Des Plaines. Contact: Steve Repsys, (847) 635-1810 or srepsys@oakton.edu.
9 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement hosts its 35th Annual National Leadership Career Summit & Gala featuring networking with top Latino leaders, career development workshops, book signings, free one-on-one coaching sessions, free professional headshots and more. Also April 28. Intercontinental Hotel Chicago, 505 N. Michigan Ave. Contact: Henry Moya, (312) 933-3181 or hmoya.hispanicpr@gmail.com.
9 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago Department of Public Health hosts clinic for adults and children to receive the whooping cough vaccine. Until 1 p.m. WHSP WIC, 2400 S. Kedzie. Contact: (312) 747-9884.
9 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Social Media Strategies Summit. 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.
9 a.m. — (ORLAND PARK) Orland Park Fire Protection District launches its Coffee, Conversation & Cookies community outreach program. 9790 W. 151st St., Orland Park. Contact: Ray Hanania, (312) 933-9855 or rghanania@gmail.com.
9 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicagoland nursing home workers will announce their plans to strike next week over fair wages, staffing levels and dignity on the job. SEIU Healthcare Illinois, 2229 S. Halsted St. Contact: Rob Duffey, (646) 643-3267 or rob.duffey@berlinrosen.com.
10 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Lawndale Organizations United for Peace and CAPS10 host a 3K Run for Peace. California and Ogden. Contact: (773) 852-9830 (cell).
10 a.m. — (SKOKIE) Village celebrates Arbor Day with tree planting ceremony. Niles West High School, 5701 Oakton St., Skokie. Contact: Janelle Silva, (847) 933-8257.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Frank Mugisha, executive director of Sexual Minorities of Uganda, speaks on “The Global LGBTQ Rights Movement” with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Conference Center, 130 E. Randolph St. Contact: (312) 726-3860.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Consulting Magazine hosts its annual Rising Stars of the Profession Awards Dinner. W Chicago-City Center, 172 W. Adams. Contact: Maribeth Buchanan, MBuchanan@alm.com or (212) 457-9167.
6 p.m. — (EVANSTON) American Cancer Society’s “Power in Purple: A Fashion Media Event” features elements of FashionBar Chicago, local up-and-coming designers, and more. Evanston Art Center, 1717 Central St., Evanston. Contact: Tony Long, (312) 532-4210 or tony_long@fashionbarchicago.com.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Kerfuffle! is the ChiArts’ spring gala and presentation to support conservatory programs, featuring student artists and performers displaying their work through open studios, poetry stations, pop-up performances, and opening presentation on stage. Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark St. Contact: (773) 534-9710 or info@chiarts.org.
6 p.m. — (VALPARAISO, Ind.) U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly’s office hosts Service Academy Information Night. Porter County Career and Technical Education Center, 1005 N. Franklin St., Valparaiso, Ind. Contact: donnelly—press@donnelly.senate.gov or (202) 224-0972.
6:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Cook County State’s Atty. Kimberly Foxx and the Chicago Police 19th and 20th Districts host a Building Safer Communities presentation. Swedish Covenant Hospital, Anderson Pavilion, 2751 W. Winona. Contact: (773) 334-4066 or lori.trier@cookcountyil.gov.
6:30 p.m. — (EVANSTON) City of Evanston hosts an Equity and Empowerment town hall meeting. Levy Center, Linden Room, 300 Dodge Ave., Evanston. Contact: Patrick Deignan, (847) 448-8234 or pdeignan@cityofevanston.org.
6:30 p.m. — (NAPERVILLE) Naperville Jaycees host 39th annual Distinguished Service Awards, honoring local individuals and organizations for community spirit and dedication. Meson Sabika, 1025 Aurora Ave., Naperville. Contact: Zakery Kates, zakkates@simple-edge.com.
7 p.m. — (LISLE) Benedictine University hosts former CIA officer Robert Baer discussing “National Security and Global Terrorism in the 21st Century” as part of the Center for Civic Leadership lecture series. Goodwin Hall, Auditorium, 5700 College Rd., Lisle. Contact: Ryan Blackburn, (630) 829-6070 or rblackburn@ben.edu.
7 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Eliminate Hunger Social benefits Lakeview Pantry’s emergency food distribution and social service programs. Barcocina, 2901 N. Sheffield Ave. Contact: Angie Davis, (773) 320-7227 or angie@lakeviewpantry.org.
7:30 p.m. — (EVANSTON) 2nd annual Skyline Piano Artist Series at Northwest presents Sergei Babayan as the opening performer in the annual Liszt Festival. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, 70 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston. Contact: Stephanie Kulke, (847) 491-4819, stephanie.kulke@northwestern.edu.
THURSDAY’S COURT DOCKET*
1:30 p.m. call — (BRIDGEVIEW) Jessie Rodriguez, charged with first-degree murder; A Northwest Side man accused of beating 3-year-old Gina Presley to death in Oak Lawn in March 2013. Status. Bridgeview Courthouse, 10220 S. 76th Ave., Bridgeview. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9 a.m. call — (MARKHAM) Matthew Smith, charged with Arsenio Williams, Smith charged with murder and Williams with aggravated fleeing and eluding and concealing a homicide; accused in the August 2012 murder outside a Harvey nightclub. Status for Smith. Markham Courthouse, 16501 S. Kedzie Parkway, Markham. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Luis Alfaro, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of setting up a drug deal that left a man fatally shot near Midway Airport. 9-5-2014. 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) Leevert Anderson, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting 24-year-old man in North Lawndale on 11-3-15. 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) Michael A. Barber, charged with aggravated battery to a child; A Harvey man accused of injuring his fiance’s one-year-baby, who suffered second-and third-degree burns and bite marks. 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 and Quan Evans, charged with 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) Brittany Covington, Tanishia Covington, Tasfaye Cooper and Jordan Hills, all charged with aggravated kidnapping, hate crime, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon; Accused of holding a white schizophrenic man captive and torturing him for hours, then posting the videos on Facebook in a case that gained national attention. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423. (Note: Defendant’s name also spelled in court records as “Tesfaye” Cooper.)
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Paris Denard, charged with Derrick Allmon, Michael D. Baker and Jabari Williams; each charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a 9-year-old at close range on 8-20-14 after he yelled that someone had a gun. 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) Jerrell Dorsey, charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery of a firearm; accused of fatally shooting a 7-year-old girl selling candy near her West Side home on 06-27-2010. 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 Edwards, charged with Dwright Boone-Doty and Corey Morgan, 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) Stephon Gill, charged with Erick Gill and Alexander Gonzalez,, all charged with murder; Charged with fatally shooting a rival gang member outside a Dunkin’ Donuts on 3-25-2015. 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) Joseph Griffin, charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery; A 17-year-old charged as an adult with shooting and robbing a man in a home barbershop on 3-1-2014. 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) Omar Hernandez, charged with murder; Accused in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Jeremy Salinas, who was gunned down by Satan Disciples on 6-10-15 in Bridgeport while trying to retrieve his bicycle. 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) Deandre Hughes, charged with Javon Almond and Bianca Young, all charged with murder; Accused in the 8-3-2014 shooting death of a man outside a River North nightclub. 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) Emilio Izguirre, charged with first-degree murder and home invasion; Accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s Lower West Side home and stabbing her to death in September 2013. Status. (Note: Last name spelled “Izaguirre” in court records.) 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) Antonio James, charged with first-degree murder; Accused in a 7-3-2013 shooting that left one man dead and two hurt in Woodlawn. 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) Kimon Johnson, charged with first-degree murder; Accused in the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man on 8-11-15 in Altgeld Gardens on the Far South 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) Antwan Jones, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting 11-year-old Takiya Holmes on 2-11-17 in the Parkway Gardens 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) Dwayne Jones, charged with murder; Accused of beating his mother’s fiancé to death in front of two young relatives because he thought the man had taken his wallet in Nov. 2015. Status. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Lorenzo D. Jones, charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated assault; Accused of firing an assault rifle at a crowded Blue Line train on 10-9-2014. 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) Anthony Lyons, charged with Joshua Almore and Anthony Harris; all charged with murder and attempted murder; Accused of shooting seven people, including a 13-year-old boy fatally, on Jan. 25, 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) Chadwick Perkins, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally stabbing a 51-year-old man to death in the home they shared in the South Side Ashburn neighborhood on 8-3-16. 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 Shelton, charged with murder; Accused of stabbing a man to death in a Woodlawn apartment on 10-23-16. 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) 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) Mubashra Uddin, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of dropping her newborn baby to her death from the 8th floor window of an Uptown to hide the baby from her parents on 11-11-15. 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) James B. Wilson, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man on 12-19-2013, then fleeing to Urbana. 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) Lance Wyatt, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and domestic battery, man free on $1 million bail for the alleged attempted murder of his girlfriend arrested again after trying to kill her for a second time. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
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