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WEDNESDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS*
8:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago annual Chicago Payments Symposium, with opening keynote by FRB Kansas City President Esther George. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 230 S. La Salle. Contact: Laura LaBarbera, laura.labarbera@chi.frb.org or (312) 32-2387.
10 a.m. — (LISLE) The Glass Pumpkin Patch returns to the Morton Arboretum, including demos from glass artists and a Glass Pumpkin Patch Market. Through Oct. 16. 4100 Route 53, Lisle. Contact: Patti MacMillan, (630) 719-5768 or pmacmillan@mortonarb.org.
10:15 a.m. — (AURORA) U.S. Rep. Bill Foster and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin take part in renaming ceremony of Main Post Office as the Kenneth M. Christy Post Office Building. 525 N. Broadway, Aurora. Contact: Greg Cybulski, (630) 585 7672.
11:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) City Club of Chicago hosts panel discussion on “Liberal Arts Colleges & Universities: A Hidden Resource for Chicago and Illinois,” with speakers including with Dominican University President Donna Carroll and North Park University President David Parkyn. Maggiano’s, 111 W. Grand Ave. Contact: info@cityclub-chicago.com or (312) 565-6500.
***11:45 a.m. — (MAYWOOD) U.S. Senator Dick Durbin will visit Access to Care, a non-profit primary health care program that provides affordable health care services to low-income, uninsured patients of suburban Cook County and northwest Chicago. Loyola Center for Health on Roosevelt, 1211 W. Roosevelt Rd., Maywood. Contact: Christina Angarola, (312) 353-4623.
Noon — (CHICAGO) UIC hosts “The Future of Corruption in Chicago” lecture by City inspector general Joe Ferguson. Lecture Center C1, 802 S. Halsted St. Contact: (312) 413-3780.
Noon — (CHICAGO) Chicago Police Memorial Foundation hosts 5th annual Valor Lunch, honoring police officers Alejandro Lagunas, Arturo Bracho, Michael Cantore and Antonio Herrera, and Wintrust CEO Edward Wehmer. Harry Carry’s 7th Inning Stretch, Water Tower Place, 835 N. Michigan Ave. Contact: Dave Bayless, baylessdave@gmail.com or (312) 533-0059.
Noon — (CHICAGO) Illinois Sec. of State Jesse White will host the National Hispanic Heritage Month celebration by recognizing Chicago Cub Javier Baez, Illinois Appellate Justice Jesse Reyes, humanitarians Joel Cervantes and Jose Loera and El Valor Vice President Clara Lopez. Thompson Center, Concourse Level, 100 W. Randolph St. Contact: Beth Kaufman, (312) 814-8301.
Noon — (HAMMOND, Ind.) Black communities will conduct a press conference in froth of the broadcast headquarters of Crawford Broadcasting’s WPWX – Power 92.3 to demand they turn off “killer radio.” 6636 Calumet Ave., Hammond, Ind. Contact: (212) 862-9120.
2:30 p.m. — (RIVERSIDE) Final Riverside Farmer’s Market of the summer includes live music and crafts for kids. Water Tower, 10 Pine Ave., Riverside. Contact: (708) 447-2700.
3 p.m. — (CHICAGO) City hosts business workshop on “Business Licensing.” City Hall, 8th Floor, 121 N. LaSalle St. Contact: (312) 744-2086 or BACPoutreach@cityofchicago.org.
***6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) The 8th District Domestic Violence Subcommittee will recognize two officers for going above and beyond to assist in domestic violence situations. 8th District station, 3240 W. 63rd St. Contact: (312) 745-6110.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Chicago Council on Global Affairs hosts Cheng Li, director of the National Committee on US-China Relations, speaking on “The U.S. Presidential Election and China’s Leadership Transition.” 130 E. Randolph, 1st floor. Contact: (312) 726-3860.
6 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Ninth annual Chicago Chef Battle features chef competition, cooking demos and more to benefit WBEZ. Kendall College, 900 North Branch St. Contact: info@wbez.org or (312) 948-4600.
7 p.m. — (CHICAGO) Lincoln Park Zoo hosts annual Zoo Ghost Tours led by paranormal investigator and founder of Chicago Hauntings Ursula Bielski. Also Oct. 18 and 26. 2001 N. Clark St. Contact: Jillian Braun, (312) 742-5791 or jbraun@lpzoo.org.
WEDNESDAY’S COURT DOCKET*
1 p.m. call — (MARKHAM) Vicente Mendoza, charged with murder; Accused of robbing and fatally shooting a man then leaving his body near a Harvey forest preserve on 12-5-15. Status. Markham Courthouse, 16501 S. Kedzie Pkwy., Markham. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9 a.m. call — (MAYWOOD) Robert Gaskill, charged with two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault; A River Forest foster parent charged with sexually assaulting two girls. Status. Maywood Courthouse, Room 103, 1500 Maybrook Dr., Maywood. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
8:30 a.m. — (WHEATON) Londale Madison, charged with attempted murder, aggravated criminal sexual assault, home invasion and armed robbery; Accused of breaking into a Willowbrook home and beating and sexually assaulting a 26-year-old woman on Aug. 29, 2015. 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) 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) Tramian Barnes, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a 19-year-old Portage Park man on 1-20-2014. 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) Tyrese Bell, charged with murder; A man accused of fatally shooting a cabdriver in North Lawndale on 1-8-2015. 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) Tyree Brannon, charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery; Accused of burying his gun in the snow after fatally shooting a man on 12-10-2014. 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) Dwight Brown, charged with first-degree murder and armed robbery; Accused of beating and hacking his mother to death with a fight on the night before her 24th wedding anniversary on 2-2-15. 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) James Bryant, charged first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man in the head in Rogers Park on 7-20-16. 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) William Cochran, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a civilian employee of the Chicago Police Department on 9-16-15 in Morgan Park. 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) Dewann Crooks, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting 38-year-old Clint Eldridge on 3-14-11 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) 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) Antwan Elliott, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a 16-year-old over his gang affiliation on 3-15-2015. 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) Terrence Ghani, charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood 11-6-13. 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) 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) Anastacio Gonzales, charged with murder and armed robbery; Accused of fatally stabbing a restaurant owner inside his Humboldt Park establishment on 4-18-2015. 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) Jameel Handcox, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man on 3-9-2015 in the Washington Heights neighborhood. 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 Higgins and Clarence Sams, both charged with murder and robbery; Accused in the beating death and robbery of an 88-year-old man waiting for the bus on 9-25-2014. 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) Michael K. Johnson, charged with murder, aggravated battery and aggravated assault; Accused of handing a gun to a person who shot and killed a man 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) Kashai Jones, charged with murder; Accused of killing a rival in a shootout in the parking lot of a South Side currency exchange on 4-30-16. 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) Wilson G. Jones, charged with leaving the scene of an accident; Accused in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Bronzeville on 7-22-16. 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 Kemp, pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and was ordered held without bond; Accused in the 1983 murder of a CTA driver after DNA evidence collected from a glove left at the scene of the fatal stabbing led to 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) Michael Laster and Jonathon Thompson, both charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting two men in Uptown on Sept. 2, 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) 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) Charles Moore, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a motorist in a passing van on 5-15-2013. 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) Lavonte Moore, charged with first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting a teen on the West Side on 5-20-2011. 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) Daniel Morris, charged with Jake Tate and Todd Cooper, all 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) Florin Mulosmani, 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) 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) Jose Ortiz, charged with two counts of first-degree murder; Accused of fatally shooting two 19-year-old men in Austin on 6-7-15. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423. (Note: Also listed as Jose ‘Oritz’ in court records.)
9:30 a.m. call — (CHICAGO) Romell Outlaw, charged with murder; Accused in a fatal shooting in the Park Manor neighborhood on 4-2-2015. 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) Geno Paget, charged with murder and robbery; Accused in a fatal shooting during a drug deal-turned-robbery on 5-27-2014. 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) Ruben Quispe-Trujillo, charged with murder; Accused of stabbing his neighbor while they were drinking together in Logan Square on 7-29-2015. 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) Alan Padilla, charged with first-degree murder; Teenager accused of fatally shooting 17-year-old Jalen Stogner 08-31-2012 while he and his mother were at a South Side laundromat. 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) Manuela Rodriguez, charged with murder; A Little Village woman accused of beating, suffocating and using a power saw to cut the throat of her infant granddaughter because the child wouldn’t stop crying on 3-9-2015. 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) David Silva, charged with Jeremy Medina and Randy Ruiz, all charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a fellow Latin Kings gang member on 7-2-2014. 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) Carl Smith, charged with murder; A man accused of fatally shooting a person on 6-23-2014. The man allegedly identified him and gave his phone number to police before dying. 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) Larry Smith, charged with murder; Accused of killing his roommate on 12-02-2011 because he thought she stole his 32-inch television. 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) Richard D. Smith, charged with murder; Accused of accidentally fatally shooting his friend 21-year-old Otis Richmond and dropping him off at St. Bernard Hospital. 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) Louis Tabor, charged with first-degree murder; Accused in a fatal shooting on 7-22-2011. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California. Contact: State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
9:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Lisamarie Villasana, charged with murder; Accused of fatally beating her 5-year-old stepdaughter on 5-7-2015. 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) Timothy Ward, charged with first-degree murder; A Carpentersville man accused of fatally shooting Charzelle Hayes during an argument in North Lawndale on 7-18-15. 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) Derrick S. Williams, charged with murder; Accused of fatally shooting a man during an argument over drugs on 3-19-2015. Status. Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S. California Ave. Contact: Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, (312) 603-3423.
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