SUNDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS*
9 p.m. — (CHICAGO) 4th annual Backyard Dinner to benefit nonprofit urban farm Growing Home. Bang Bang Pie & Biscuits, 2051 N. California. Contact: (773) 549-1336.
MONDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS*
8 a.m. — (MOUNT PROSPECT) Sister Cities Commission hosts the Marche Francais, a farmer’s market with a French twist, featuring Parisian-style flea market, arts and crafts, food and more. Metra Commuter Lot, Northwest Highway at Route 83, Mount Prospect. Contact: Marianthi Thanopoulos, (847) 818-5308 or mthanopo@mountprospect.org.
9:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Illinois Business Immigration Coalition hosts forum on common sense immigration reform, with speakers including U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, and U.S. Reps. Tammy Duckworth and Luis Gutierrez. The Resurrection Project – La Casa, 1815 S. Paulina. Contact: Rebecca Shi, (312) 576-8032 or rshi@illinoisbic.biz.
10 a.m. — (CHICAGO) U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski leads roundtable discussion on “The Road Ahead: Developing Technology and Policy to Accelerate Deployment of Connected and Driverless Cars.” TechNexus, Suite 1200, 20 N. Upper Wacker. Contact: Jason Day, jason.day@mail.house.gov.
11 a.m. — (CHICAGO) City Council Committee on Housing and Real Estate meets to hear update on 5-Year Housing Plan. CIty Hall, Room 201A, 121 N. LaSalle. Contact: (312) 744-3067.
11:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Former CPD superintendent Garry McCarthy speaks to the City Club of Chicago. Maggiano’s, 111 W. Grand Ave. Contact: info@cityclub-chicago.com or (312) 565-6500.
Noon — (CHICAGO) Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, speaks on the current situation in Ukraine with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Prudential Plaza, 130 E. Randolph Dr. Contact: (312) 726-3860.
5:30 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Gun Violence Prevention PAC hosts annual Paper Tiger Award Ceremony, honoring Father Michael Pflger, with speakers including Sec. of Education Arne Duncan. The Dawson, 730 W. Grand. Contact: Kathleen Sances, kathleen@gpacillinois.com.
5:30 p.m. — (DES PLAINES) Community Consolidated School District 62 Board of Education hosts open house to introduce new Supt. Floyd Williams Jr. Early Learning Center, 1375 S. Fifth Ave., Des Plaines. Contact: Jennifer Tempset Bova, (847) 824-8070 or bovaj@d62.org.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) NPR’s Kelly McEvers hosts program on “Understanding the Opioid Epidemic.” The Ivy Room, 12 E. Ohio St. Contact: info@wbez.org or (312) 948-4600.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Ald. Sophia King hosts a Fourth Ward Town Hall Meeting to discuss the new career and technical programs at Dunbar High, a proposal for the former 21st District police station,. and other issues. 3000 S. King Dr. Contact: (773) 536-8103.
7 p.m. — (NAPERVILLE) Naperville Police and Crime Stoppers host burglary prevention forum for residents to learn how to safeguard their homes, vehicles and neighborhoods. 95th Street Library, 3015 Cedar Glade Dr., Naperville. Contact: Cmdr. Jason Arres, (630) 420-4137.
MONDAY’S COURT DOCKET*
8:30 a.m. — (WHEATON) Michael R. Jones, charged with two counts of murder and one count of aggravated criminal sexual assault; Accused of murdering 15-year-old Kristy Wesselman in Glen Ellyn in 1985. Status. DuPage County Courthouse, 505 N. County Farm Rd., Wheaton. Contact: DuPage County State’s Attorney’s office: (630) 407-8160.
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Ulises Almaraz, charged with murder; A jealous boyfriend accused of slitting a Pilsen man’s throat at a bar for talking to his girlfriend on 5-30-2015. 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) Daniel Brown, charged with murder, attempted murder and being a fugitive from justice; Accused in a gun battle with police on 10-7-2014 at an Englewood apartment that wounded a police captain. 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) Cedryck Davis and Deandre Thompson, each charged with attempted first-degree murder; Accused of shooting a high school basketball coach who was paralyzed while shielding his daughter from gunfire on their way to school on 1-30-14. 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) Germel Dossie, charged with murder; Accused of the 6-2-2015 shooting of a man who made disparaging Facebook comments about slain rapper Young Pappy on 6-1-15. 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) Robert Goodman, charged with Demetrius Spencer, each charged with first-degree murder; Two South Side men accused of fatally shooting a man on Nov. 30, 2011. 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 Johnson, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of shooting 24-year-old Jeanette Laureano on the Northwest Side on 3-18-16. 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) Lorenzo Jones, charged with murder; An Iowa man accused of fatally shooting his brother during a domestic argument on Christmas 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. 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) Daniel Kralik, charged with murder; A man accused of strangling his girlfriend in their Humboldt Park apartment 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) Antonio Lewis, charged with Larry Cox, each charged with two counts of first-degree murder; Accused of murdering a mother and her 5-year-old son in June 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) 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) Audreianna McNeil, charged with LaDonna Curry, 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) Samuel D. Miller, charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder; Accused of killing one man and wounding another in a South Chicago neighborhood drive-by shooting on 7-30-15. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423. (Note: Also listed in court records as Samuel Muller.)
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Deonta Noble and David Radford, both charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man and wounding two others over gang affiliations on 7-6-2014. 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) Reynaldo Ocampo, charged with Alejandro Ocampo and Joseph Saleski, each charged with first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping for ransom; Accused of kidnapping then killing a man found burned beyond recognition in a Northwest Side trash can in 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) Dominique Parkman, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting someone on 5-28-2013 as part of an ongoing feud stemming from a 2012 murder over a gold necklace. 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 W. Rogers, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of shooting another man to death in the South Side London Town neighborhood on 1-25-16. 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) Vicente Salgado, charged with murder; Accused of fatally stabbing his estranged wife’s boyfriend outside a Burger King on 3-7-2015. 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) Shaughnessy Simms, charged with first-degree murder; Charged with killing the father of his girlfriend’s child after an argument at a West Side home on 12-27-13. 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) Melvin Stovall, charged with aggravated cruelty to animals; Accused of killing a dog in early March 2016 by picking it up and dropping it on its head on the Near West Side. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
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