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WEDNESDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS*
***10 a.m. — (CHICAGO) The 11th Ward and South Loop Chamber of Commerce will hold a flag ceremony, honoring the American flag. Representatives will be present to properly dispose of tattered and worn American, city of Chicago, POW and MIA flags. The public is encouraged to bring worn out flags to the ceremony. 4500 S. Halsted. Contact: Joanna Klonsky, 773-254-6677.
11 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Homeless residents of the encampments of the viaducts at Lake Shore Drive at Wilson and Lawrence will conduct a press conference outside the mayor’s office to demand housing in advance of viaduct construction. City Hall, 5th floor, 121 N. LaSalle. Contact: Mary Tarullo, (708) 334-9270.
1 p.m. — (WAUKEGAN) Waukegan Township Park Place hosts “Healthy Indoor Plants for Good Health” workshop, featuring speaker from the Lake County Health Department. Park Place Senior Center, 414 S. Lewis Ave., Waukgean. Contact: (847) 244-9242 or jnieves@waukegantownship.com.
5:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Thomas Wright of the Center for the United States and Europe, speaks on “Our New World Order: From Liberalism to Nationalism” with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. 130 E. Randolph St. Contact: (312) 726-3860.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) UIC will host a panel discussion, “Pedagogy on the Inside,” where speakers will explore the pedagogies and learning methods used in prisons between non-incarcerated and incarcerated participants, exploring potential and limitations, paradoxes and resolutions. Jane Addams-Hull House Museum, 800 S. Halsted St. Contact: Carlos Sadovi, (312) 355-2491 or csadovi@uic.edu.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Ald. Sophia King hosts community meeting on next phase of development on Harper Court. Kenwood High School, 5015 S. Blackstone Ave. Contact (773) 536-8103 or ward04@cityofchicago.org.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Ald. Chris Taliaferro hosts idea collection assembly on participatory budgeting. Until 8:30 p.m. Amundsen Park, 6200 W. Bloomingdale Ave. Contact: (773) 237-6460 or ward29@cityofchicago.org.
6 p.m. — (GLENVIEW) Worn and damaged flags will be honored at a ceremony. Jackman Park gazebo, Lehigh Avenue and Washington Street, Glenview. Contact: (847) 729-3646.
6:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Grant Park Music Festival will begin the season with a performance by the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus, joined by soloist Vadim Gluzman for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Millennium Park, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, 201 E. Randolph St. Contact: Jill Hurwitz, (312) 744-9179 or jill.hurwitz@gmpf.org.
7 p.m. — (AURORA) Wednesdays at the Plaza, a free, summer concert series in downtown Aurora, kicks off with blues group Jake Mack and the Lesser Stags. Millennium Plaza gazebo, 21 S. Stolp Ave., Aurora. Contact: Marissa Amoni, (630) 674-2099 or marissa@auroradowntown.org.
7 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Ald. Joe Moore hosts community meeting on proposals to renovate and expand two existing buildings at 1710 W. Lunt and 1730 W. Greenleaf, both of which require zoning changes. Ethiopian Community Center of Chicago, 1730 W. Greenleaf Ave. Contact: (773) 338-5796 or ward49@cityofchicago.org.
8 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Paul Simon performs, part of a 19-city tour in which all proceeds will be donated to the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation to support saving lands and oceans via the Half-Earth Project. Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, 1300 S. Linn White Dr. Contact: Eric Hollister Williams, (202) 255-2205 or ehwilliams@fenton.com.
WEDNESDAY’S COURT DOCKET*
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Joshua Almore, charged with Anthony Lyons 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) 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) Dominique Brown and Maurice Vickers, both charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man after an argument in a West Side barber shop on 1-9-2015. 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) 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) Marquis Ceazer, charged with a 16-year-old juvenile with first-degree murder; Accused in a fatal shooting in Woodlawn on 9-30-2013. 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) Rolando Cortes, charged with criminal sexual abuse by force; Accused of attacking an off-duty police officer jogging at a North Side park in 2013. Status. (Note: Accused in separate 2014 sexual assault and robbery cases.) 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) Diego Uribe Cruz, charged with Jafeth Ramos, each charged first-degree murder; Charged with the massacre of six members of a Gage Park family in February 2016. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423. (Note: Last name also spelled Cruz-Uribe.)
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) 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) 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.
2 p.m. call — (CHICAGO) James Finney, charged with first-degree murder; A man accused of fatally shooting his brother on 4-10-2015 in an argument over money. 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) Dominic Gipson, charged with reckless homicide; Accused of fleeing police in Bronzeville and leading to the death of an 18-year-old man. 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) Alexis Gonzalez, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally stabbing his girfriend’s ex-boyfriend to death in Belmont Cragin on 8-16-16. 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) Sakhee Hardy-Johnson, charged with Meiko Buchanan and Michael Mays, all charged with murder; Accused in the 9-26-2013 shooting that killed rapper Leonard “L’A Capone” Anderson. 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) Darryl Benton Harris, charged with first-degree murder, intentional homicide of an unborn child and attempted first-degree murder; Accused killing his pregnant girlfriend and her 16-year-old brother in South Chicago on 11-3-16. 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) 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) 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) Jazmine Jones, charged with causing child endangerment leading to death; Accused of neglect in her 2-year-old daughter’s death in Englewood. 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) June Kendall, charged with criminal sexual assault; Urban Prep teacher accused of sexually assaulting two students. 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) Tiawyan McDade, charged with first-degree murder; A teenager accused of fatally shooting a 16-year-old boy in Austin on 2-24-16 after asking about his gang affiliations. 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) Alan Padilla, charged with first-degree murder; Teenager found guilty of fatally shooting 17-year-old Jalen Stogner 08-31-2012 while he and his mother were at a South Side laundromat. 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) 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) Prentice F. Phillips, charged with first-degree murder; Accused in the 1988 beating and rape of an elderly Rogers Park woman who later died from her injuries. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423. (Note: Also charged in separate attempted criminal sexual assault case.)
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Ivan Sanchez, charged with reckless homicide; Accused in a fatal drag racing crash on Lower Wacker Drive in July 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) 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) Jake Tate, charged with Todd Cooper and Daniel Morris, charged with murder; Accused of strangling, beating and sodomizing a homeless man over a stolen cell phone in October 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) Devonte Watson and Willie Wheeler, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting 20-year-old Dwayne L. Thomas on a Greater Grand Crossing porch on 8-19-15. 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) Ronald Williamson, charged with murder, home invasion and attempted robbery; Accused of breaking into a Little Village home on 12-16-15 with an accomplice, who was shot to death by the homeowner. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
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