WEDNESDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS*
7 a.m. — (OAK BROOK) Fight for $15 and fast food workers conduct protest rally outside the annual meeting of McDonald’s shareholders. 2815 Jorie Blvd., Oak Brook. Contacts: Jennifer Owens, jennifer@fightfor15.org or (312) 218-8785.
7 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat hosts panel on “Unlock High Performance in Chicago High-Rise Buildings” with speakers including ComEd’s Jean Ascoli, Seventhwave Energy engineer Brett Bridgeland, and Council on Tall Buildings Director Antony Wood. Ivy Room, 12 E. Ohio St. Contact: info@ctbuh.org or (312) 567-3487.
8:15 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Airline workers lead protest and conduct press conference out United Airlines annual shareholders’ meeting, with several aldermen taking part. Outside Willis Tower, corner of Wacker and Jackson. Contact: Adam Yalowitz, (202) 826-4086 or ayalowitz@unitehere.org.
9 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Asian American Coalition of Chicago celebrates Asian American Heritage month with its 16th annual festival to promote ethnic diversity, featuring Asian cuisine, arts, clothing and retail vendors, speakers and more. Ceremony 1 p.m. Through May 26. Daley Plaza, 50 W. Washington. Contact:Maham Khan, (224) 578-2252 or mahamka@gmail.com.
9 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Annual Sweets and Snacks Expo. Also May 25. McCormick Place, 2301 S. Lake Shore Dr. Contacts: info@CandyUSA.com or (202) 534-1440.
10 a.m. — (CHICAGO) City Council meets. City Hall, Council Chambers, 121 N. LaSalle. Contact: (312) 744-6870.
10:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Metra Board of Directors meets. 547 W. Jackson Blvd. Contact: (312) 322-6776.
10:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Pride Action Tank, AARP and Affinity Community Services host “OUTAging: Summit on Our Possibilities,” for LGBTQ seniors, service providers, clinicians and advocates. Also May 25. AARP, 222 N. LaSalle St. Contact: Kim Hunt, khunt@aidschicago.org or (773) 450-2444.
11:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Authors Group presents Maureen Chiquet, the former global CEO of Chanel, who will discuss her book “Beyond the Label: Women, Leadership, and Success on Our Own Terms,” in which she tells of her unlikely rise from literature major to global chief executive. Union League Club, 65 W. Jackson Blvd. Contact: (847) 446-8880.
Noon — (CHICAGO) Annual Interfaith Memorial Service for the Indigent, commemorating the lives of area residents laid to rest by the Cook County medical examiner’s office. First United Methodist Church, Chicago Temple, 77 W. Washington. Contact: (312) 534-8227.
12:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago Bar Association for Women hosts annual awards luncheon, honoring U.S. District Judge Elaine Bucklo, and attorney Julie Johnson of Aronberg Goldgehn Davis & Garmisa. Standard Club, 320 S. Plymouth Ct. Contact: info@chicagobar.org or (312) 554-2000.
12:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Press conference before the immigration hearing for Chicago father Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez, who sued ICE and a detention center for unfair treatment and retaliation. Outside of the federal immigration court, 525 W. Van Buren. Contact: Tara Tidwell Cullen, (312) 660-1337.
12:45 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago Council on Global Affairs hosts a briefing with Glyn Davies, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand; Joseph Donovan, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to tIndonesia; Alexander Feldman, of the US-ASEAN Business Council; William Heidt, U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia; and Sung Kim, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines. 130 E. Randolph St. Contact: (312) 726-3860.
1 p.m. — (EVANSTON) Northwestern University VentureCat, the annual competition that brings together the best, brightest and most-promising student-founded startups from across the university. Kellogg Global Hub, 2211 Campus Dr., Evanston. Contact: Morgan Searles, (847) 491-5048 or morgan.searles@northwestern.edu.
3:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago Council on Global Affairs hosts panel discussion on “A New Nuclear Arms Race?” with speakers Ivo H. Daalder, Georgetown Prof. Robert Gallucci, Stanford Prof. Scott Sagan, and Rachel Bronson of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.. 130 E. Randolph St. Contact: (312) 726-3860.
4 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Finals of the Northwestern University VentureCat competition for student-founded startups, with finalists pitching their ideas to judges. Kellogg Global Hub, 2211 Campus Dr., Evanston. Contact: Morgan Searles, (847) 491-5048 or morgan.searles@northwestern.edu.
4 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Union educators at Passages Charter School will hold a final rally in the run-up to their last bargaining session on Wednesday. Passages Charter School, 1643 W. Bryn Mawr. Contact: Gina Mengarelli, (847) 347-5509 or gina.mengarelli@gmail.com.
5 pm. — (HAMMOND, Ind.) Hammond FOP Lodge 51 hosts its annual Police Memorial Service. Police Dept., 509 DOuglas St., Hammond, Ind. Contact: Michael Elkmann, elkmann.michael@gmail.com or (219) 712-2720. (Note: In case of inclement weather, service will be held in Hammond Civic Center, 5825 Sohl St.)
5:15 p.m. — (CHICAGO) David Suro, Primitivo Rodriguez, and Kenneth I. Trujillo discuss the Mexican-American immigrant experience in a discussion entitled, “The Borderlands Experience: Life as a Mexican-American Immigrant.” University of Chicago, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St. Contact: (773) 702-1234.
5:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Chinese American Service League will sponsor Wintrust Community Banks’ panel event celebrating the success of Asian-American companies throughout Chicago and abroad. Wintrust Grand Banking Hall, 231 S. LaSalle St. Contact: media@caslservice.org.
5:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) DePaul Art Museum hosts a panel discussion on “Intersectional Identity and Creative Political Action.” 935 W. Fullerton Ave. Contact: (773) 325-7506.
6 p.m. — (AURORA) Vets Week Civil War Memorial Dedication will take place at one of the first cemeteries in Aurora, including Civil War reenactors. Memorial Park, Flagg and Root streets, Aurora. Contact: Joe Toma, (630) 899-9021 or joe@joetoma.net.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Cinema Chicago Gala honors actress Helen Mirren and director Taylor Hackford. Loews Chicago Hotel, 455 North Park Dr. Contact: (312) 840-6600.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Flavors of Albany Park event features food offering from some top NW Side restaurants. Jaafer Sweets, 4825 N. Kedzie. Contact: (773) 478-0202.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Northwestern Prof. Laura Kipnis speaks on “Sex on Campus” as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. Studebaker Theater, 410 S. Michigan. Contact: (312) 566-9800.
WEDNESDAY’S COURT DOCKET*
9 a.m. call — (MAYWOOD) Eddie Garcia and Jonathan Ivory, charged with Salvador Alvarado, each charged with murder and attempted armed robbery; Accused of murdering a man in a Berwyn barber shop 12-31-2013. Status. Maywood Courthouse, 1500 Maybrook Dr., Maywood. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Michael A. Anderson, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a 14-year-old boy in Austin on 8-24-14. 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) 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) Joseph Bey, charged with murder; Convicted murderer accused of fatally shooting a 29-year-old man in West Englewood on 10-28-16. 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) Thomas Bishop, charged with murder; Accused in a fatal shooting and robbery witnessed by police on 10-23-2014. 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) Dwright Boone-Doty, charged with Kevin Edwards 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) 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) Rockie Douglas, charged with first-degree murder and aggravated vehicular hijacking with a weapon; Accused in a series of carjackings, including one that led to the death of an 11-year-old boy on 12-21-13. 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) Norberto Frausto, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of killing a man and injuring a woman in a shooting on 6-6-16 in the South Loop. 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) Dezarai Gardner, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally stabbing her mother’s boyfriend to death in a domestic dispute in Rogers Park on 8-1-2013. 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) 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) Dorvell Gogins and Damien Thomas, each charged with murder; Accused in a Chicago Lawn home invasion and murder on 7-11-13. 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) Raul Gonzalez, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of stabbing three people in a Chinatown apartment for transients on 11-21-16, killing 51-year-old Zenan “Sonny” Hernandez. 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) Tylesha Griffin and Dominique Lott and Donnell Coakley (sentenced), charged with murder; The parents and cousin of a 3-year-old boy severely abused and malnourished, accused of smoking pot near his corpse after he died on 11-7-14. 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) 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) Jordan Hills, charged with Tanishia Covington, Brittany Covington and Tasfaye Cooper, 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) Dahvie Holmes and Robert Smith, both charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a teen who was going to return a video game on 9-30-2014. 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) Camron Howard, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting one man and wounding another in West Englewood on 6-23-16. 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) Eddie Howlett, charged with murder; Accused of beating a 42-year-old woman to death in Back of the Yards on 4-21-16. 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) 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) Anthony Q. Jackson, convicted of first-degree murder; Beat another man to death at a Green Line CTA platform on 3-16-2013. 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) 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) Joshua Lofton and Anthony Murphy, both charged with first-degree murder; Accused in the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Donta Parker and 17-year-old Sakinah Reed in Greater Grand Crossing on 1-5-16. 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) Alejandro Lozano, charged with aggravated arson; Accused of setting himself and a store on fire during the Mole de Mayo Festival in Pilsen on 5-29-16. 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) Daniel McCormack, awaiting trial on whether he is a sexually violent person; A defrocked Catholic priest who spent five years in prison on child molestation charges. 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) Tyren Reese, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a 17-year-old boy to death in the West Side Austin neighborhood on 12-2-14. 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) Tania Reyna, charged with reckless homicide and aggravated DUI causing a death; Accused of drinking and being on PCP before a fatal crash in the Brighton Park neighborhood on 7-5-16. 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) Jason Robles, charged with murder; A Cook County jail inmate accused of fatally beating another inmate in June 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) Christian Williams, charged with murder; A man free on parole for a 1993 slaying now charged in a Pullman stabbing death on 10-29-2014. 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) Koman Willis, charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery / discharge of a firearm; Accused of fatally shooting 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins and wounding her father on 03-11-2013. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
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