Chicago Sun-Times: All posts by Sophie Sherry2024-03-27T11:31:49.186-05:00https://chicago.suntimes.com/authors/sophie-sherry/rss2024-03-27T11:31:49.186-05:002024-03-27T17:05:34.513-05:00White Sox players surprise fans in the Loop with free hot dogs for home opener
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>White Sox mascot Southpaw, outfielders Gavin Sheets and Andrew Benintendi hand out free hot dogs in the Loop on Wednesday. The team opens its season Thursday.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>While it may not feel like spring, baseball season has returned, and White Sox players aren’t letting the cold bother them — greeting fans Wednesday morning in the Loop with a pop-up hot dog cart.</p><p>Sox outfielders Andrew Benintendi and Gavin Sheets joined mascot Southpaw at State and Lake streets passing out free hot dogs, hoping to energize Chicagoans ahead of Opening Day on Thursday.</p><p>“Who doesn’t want a hot dog at 10 a.m.?” Sheets asked reporters Wednesday.</p><p>Dozens paused for pictures and to grab a dog, some exiting the L trains above, others running out of office buildings — even the No. 29 bus came to a stop allowing Southpaw to board and greet riders.</p><p>“It’s good to be back in Chicago, doing stuff like this, getting the excitement going,” Sheets said. “I'm looking forward to the atmosphere tomorrow. Opening Day is awesome for everyone. It’s fun for the fans; it’s fun for us.”</p><p>“Awesome” is exactly how 9-year-old Raymond and his mom, Diana Garty, described bumping into Benintendi, Sheets and Southpaw.</p><p>Raymond was heading to Millennium Park with his mom and younger brother when he spotted the players.</p><p>“I love it, connecting with the kids especially — they’re normal people too,” Garty said. “I have two boys. Of course, I am a baseball fan … they’re their heroes, they love baseball players, they love all athletes.”</p><p>In addition to the classics, Sox spokespeople say they’re unveiling several new food items at the ballpark this year, including a 16-ounce "Campfire Milkshake" topped with graham crackers, marshmallows and pieces of chocolate.</p><p>It might not be milkshake-friendly weather for Opening Day, though.</p><p>Temperatures are expected to be in the mid-40s Thursday at Guaranteed Rate Field as the Sox take on the Detroit Tigers.</p><p>Garty and her kids hope warm weather is on the horizon, but they’re still looking forward to the start of the season.</p><p>“I’m very excited. I want to see these teams play well, have good games,” Raymond said. “Good luck!”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">Raymond Duckett, 9, eats a free hot dog while his brother and mom, Diana Garty, stand beside him in the Loop Wednesday.</span>
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<p>Eileen O'Neill Burke's razor’s edge lead over Clayton Harris III in the Democratic primary for Cook County state’s attorney is now down to less than a third of a percentage point.</p><p>The latest batches of city and suburban ballots reported on Monday left O'Neill Burke only 1,643 votes ahead of Harris —nearly a week after the polls closed.</p><p>Based on the unofficial results, O'Neill Burke, a retired appellate court justice, now leads Harris, a university lecturer, 50.16% to 49.84%. The mail ballots trickling in since last Tuesday have consistently narrowed O'Neill Burke’s margin.</p><p>On Monday, Harris won 56% of the mail-in votes cast in the city and 52% from the suburbs in the latest batch reported by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners and the Cook County clerk.</p><p>Shortly after the polls closed last Tuesday, Harris trailed by about 10,000 votes. By Saturday, only 4,771 separated the two Democrats, dropping down to 2,015 votes after the city was done with its count Sunday.</p><p>Neither candidate has declared victory, nor conceded defeat.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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</bsp-list-loadmore><p>City and suburban election officials plan to keep counting ballots until April 2, as long as they were post marked no later than last Tuesday.</p><p>Chicago election officials said there are 53,768 outstanding mail-in ballots that have not been returned. Officials don't expect all of those to be completed and returned.</p><p>Chicago election officials processed and counted roughly 2,500 mail-in ballots Monday. The county election board, which processes suburban mail-in ballots separately, added about 3,000 mail-in and provisional ballots to its tally Monday afternoon.</p><p>On Saturday, city election officials announced that roughly 10,000 votes were added to the unofficial count. Max Bever, spokesperson for the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, said in a statement that he had mistakenly left out ballots received by mail on the evening of March 18, a day before the primary, in previous totals.</p><p>Both campaigns had poll watchers present during counting Sunday and Monday.</p><p>In a statement, O'Neill Burke's campaign said, "We have a vigilant team of volunteers, lawyers and retired judges who are watching the vote count process at the Board of Elections very closely."</p><p>The Harris campaign said Sunday: "As the votes are processed and the margin in this race continues to shrink, we are watching closely and evaluating our options."</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>City election officials have also issued a correction regarding provisional ballots.</p><p>A board staff member initially logged the incorrect number of provisional ballots received on election day, reporting 2,882 ballots instead of 1,882, Bever said Monday.</p><p>Staff have since performed an updated hand count, determining there were 1,991 provisional ballots from election day and early voting. Those ballots have not been added to the unofficial tally.</p><p>Harris had the crucial backing of the Cook County Democratic Party, led by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. O'Neill Burke led in fundraising.</p><p>The two are vying to succeed Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who opted not to seek a third term after winning both praise and criticism for her handling of the office. Foxx, Preckwinkle's former chief of staff, said last week that the tight margin between O'Neill Burke and Harris <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/03/21/kim-foxx-legacy-tight-states-attorney-race-low-turnout" >shows there is “not a mandate,</a> if you will, to roll things back."</p><p>The winner of the Democratic primary is a heavy favorite in November. Democrats have held the office since 1996. Republican former Ald. Bob Fioretti and Libertarian Andrew Charles Kopinski are also running. </p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>The chairman and another member of the state’s parole board have resigned in light of <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/03/15/pregnant-woman-denied-emergency-protection-order-before-stabbed-11-year-old-son-killed" target="_blank" >the board’s controversial decision to release a convicted felon</a> who then allegedly stabbed a pregnant former girlfriend and killed her 11-year-old son just a day after leaving prison.</p><p>Gov. J.B. Pritzker initially announced the resignation of LeAnn Miller, the member of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board who oversaw the decision to release Crosetti Brand after Brand allegedly violated his parole by showing up at the woman’s home just over a month before the deadly attack.</p><p>The governor didn’t say why Miller had chosen to step down but indicated she played a key role in the flawed decision to place Brand back on the street. Pritzker noted she conducted the pivotal parole hearing and “prepared a draft order provided to a panel of two additional members for concurrence.”</p><p>Pritzker said she ultimately made “the correct decision in stepping down.”</p><p>“It is clear that evidence in this case was not given the careful consideration that victims of domestic violence deserve, and I am committed to ensuring additional safeguards and training are in place to prevent tragedies like this from happening again,” Pritzker said in a statement.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Later Monday, Pritzker struck a different tone while announcing that board president Donald Shelton had also stepped aside. Shelton, a former longtime member of the Champaign Police Department, wasn’t directly involved in the decision to parole Brand.</p><p>Pritzker lauded Shelton for serving on the board for more than a decade and “providing a model of dedication to public service.”</p><p>“During his time with the Champaign Police Department and with the PRB he worked diligently to keep Illinoisans safe and uphold our justice system,” Pritzker added, “and I thank him for his service.”</p><p>The governor's office declined to comment on whether the resignations were requested.</p><p>Amanda Pyron, executive director of the Network: Advocating Against Domestic Violence, said she hoped the action "marks the beginning of systemic accountability in this case.”</p><p>“It is clear from the review of events that many actors failed to take the necessary steps to safeguard this family,” Pyron said. “We hope this leads to broader accountability and investments in a safety net built through increasing supportive services."</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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</div><p></p><h3>Victim cried out for help</h3><p>Brand, 37, allegedly forced his way into the woman’s apartment in the 5900 block of North Ravenswood Avenue and repeatedly stabbed her on the morning of March 13, prosecutors have said.</p><p>The <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/03/16/jayden-perkins-fundraiser-murder" target="_blank" >woman’s son, Jayden Perkins</a>, “attempted numerous times to help his mother” and was stabbed to death, they said.</p><p>In the ensuing days and weeks, officials have struggled to explain why the woman’s calls for help apparently went unanswered before the attack.</p><p>She had been notified when Brand was released on parole last October after he served eight years of a 16-year sentence for attacking another ex-partner and pointing a gun at her son in 2015.</p><p>Prosecutors said the woman was informed because she was the victim in previous domestic violence cases against Brand, including repeated violations of protection orders.</p><p>When Brand allegedly arrived at her home on Feb. 1, she quickly reported that he “was presently at her door stalking her,” according to a parole violation report obtained through a public records request.</p><p>A parole official followed up, and she told him Brand “was at her address ringing the door bell and pulling on the door handle,” the report states.</p><p>Brand <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/03/18/man-accused-killing-boy-stabbing-mom-not-kept-in-prison" target="_blank" >initially admitted that he was at her home</a> but claimed he had been looking for an apartment, according to the report.</p><p>He turned himself in that day and was sent to the Stateville Correctional Center and was cited for a series of alleged parole violations, including coming into contact with the woman.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Within weeks, the prisoner review board decided to release him again — after Brand changed his story and denied going to her home.</p><p>During a Feb. 26 board hearing, Brand and his attorney said there was no evidence that he traveled to her home, according to the order prepared by Miller.</p><p>Brand, who was on electronic monitoring at the time, insisted that “GPS would have picked up on it, and it didn’t” — an account the order indicated was backed up by data from a parolee tracking system.</p><p>The woman wasn’t called to testify before the board, and three members determined there wasn’t enough evidence to corroborate her claims.</p><p>Days earlier, she had appeared before a Cook County judge and asked for an emergency order of protection, saying Brand had threatened her in text messages and had come to her home, according to a transcript of the Feb. 21 hearing.</p><p>She told Judge Thomas Nowinski that Brand sent the text messages on Jan. 30 and came to her apartment on Feb. 1. She said police wouldn’t take a report and instead directed her to get an order of protection.</p><p>While officials have said the woman already had an active order of protection, she told Nowinski that she didn’t.</p><p>Because Brand was locked up, Nowinski ruled that the woman’s case didn’t amount to an emergency and set a hearing for March 13 — the morning of the attack and just a day after Brand was released.</p><h3>‘This tragedy could have been avoided’</h3><p>In his statement Monday, Pritzker said he has asked the prisoner review board to work with experts and advocates to overhaul training for cases involving domestic violence.</p><p>The governor also pushed the board and the Illinois Department of Corrections to review “rules and procedures for receiving information" about those cases "to determine whether changes are necessary.”</p><p>“My thoughts are with [the woman who was stabbed] as she recovers and with the entire family of Jayden Perkins as we mourn this tragic loss,” Pritzker said. “May his memory be a blessing.”</p><p>Members of the prisoner review board have partisan affiliations and are handpicked by the governor, which frequently leads to criticism at the top when things go wrong. Under state law, the board can have up to 15 members, with no more than eight from the same party.</p><p>Miller and Shelton were among five Republicans on the board, along with seven Democrats and one independent. With Monday’s resignations, there are now 11 members.</p><p>Shelton, of Sangamon County, had been on the board since 2012 and was earning a $108,189 annual salary as chair. Miller, of Gallatin County, was appointed in September 2021 and was making $96,920 a year.</p><p>Ultimately, the decision to release Brand on parole was made by Miller, who oversaw the hearing, along with Krystal Tison, an independent board member from Saline County and Kenneth Tupy, another Republican board member from Sangamon County.</p><p>While the board acts independently, Pritzker’s prisoner review board appointments were under a microscope during his 2022 reelection campaign — and pressure from Republicans, along with negative headlines, seemed to work.</p><p>In March 2022, 14 Senate Democrats joined Republicans to reject Pritzker’s nominee Eleanor Wilson, and 12 other Democrats refused to vote at all. Pritzker’s other appointee, Oreal James, resigned from his post early that day to avoid what many expected to be a similar rejection.</p><p>Pritzker’s two appointees drew criticism from lawmakers — and from former Republican primary candidate for governor Richard Irvin — for their votes to free Joseph Hurst and Johnny Veal, who were convicted of killing Chicago police officers.</p><p> James was appointed in April 2019 but was never confirmed because the Senate didn’t take up the appointment during abbreviated legislative sessions during the pandemic.</p><p>That process, and the election, prompted Republicans to take a closer look into the decisions of the nominees. GOP lawmakers also complained about a lack of transparency.</p><p> State Sen. Jason Plummer, R-Edwardsville, noted Monday that he and his colleagues had “raised serious concerns about LeAnn Miller’s qualifications, her voting record on the prisoner review board, and the impact of those decisions on public safety.”</p><p>“I have consistently sounded the alarm bell about the direction the governor’s appointees were taking the board as a whole. This tragedy could have been avoided,” Plummer said. “This man never should have been released and this innocent child should still be alive.</p><p>“It’s well past time that the governor and his allies start putting Illinoisans ahead of activists,” he said. “We need reforms at the PRB that will keep our families and communities safe.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announces she will not seek reelection during a speech at a City Club of Chicago luncheon at Maggiano’s Banquets in River North last year.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has stayed mostly quiet about the race to succeed her — but on Thursday she spoke up, arguing that the tight margin <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/2/8/24056180/cook-county-states-attorney-march-primary-clayton-harris-eileen-oneill-burke-preview" target="_blank" >between the two Democratic candidates</a> shows there is “not a mandate, if you will, to roll things back."</p><p>Foxx <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/1/9/24031702/kim-foxx-cook-county-states-attorney-chicago-crime-police-sheriff-government-elections-politics-law" target="_blank" >is stepping down after eight years </a>of being praised by some and vilified by others. But the suburban Democrat rejected the notion that the race to succeed her was a referendum on her.</p><p>"Is this a referendum on something?" she asked. "I don't think it's a referendum on an individual.</p><p> “I think we have, over the last eight years, begun a really robust conversation around what criminal justice reform looks like in Cook County. And I think the electorate, even the small electorate that voted, are engaged in that discussion."</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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</div><p>Speaking to reporters, Foxx took a few minutes to talk about the contest and her legacy, even as votes were still being counted in the Democratic primary battle between <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/2/15/24071907/clayton-harris-iii-cook-county-states-attorney" target="_blank" >Clayton Harris III</a> and <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/2/15/24072039/eileen-oneill-burke-cook-county-states-attorney" target="_blank" >Eileen O’Neill Burke</a>.</p><p>Burke is leading Harris by about 8,100 votes, but potentially tens of thousands of mail-in votes remain to be counted in the coming days, so neither candidate has declared victory nor conceded defeat.</p><p>Burke did better in the suburbs, but Harris has held a slight lead in Chicago, particularly in wards on the South and West sides.</p><p> “I've not seen an election for state's attorney this close in my lifetime,” Foxx said. “I think the reason that this race is so close is because there are people who are impatient with the way things have been.”</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Foxx conceded she found some of the campaign rhetoric "disheartening," but she did not single out either candidate.</p><p>Harris was backed by the same Democratic organization that supported Foxx, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/03/14/toni-preckwinkle-political-muscle-democrats-march-primary-election" target="_blank" >led by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle</a>, for whom Foxx served as chief of staff before her election as the county’s top prosecutor.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx hugs Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle before announcing she will not seek reelection during a speech at a City Club of Chicago luncheon at Maggiano’s Banquets in River North last year.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Harris said he supported Foxx’s agenda and wouldn’t make significant changes.</p><p>Burke said she would take a harder line on detaining people charged with crimes, but she didn't propose any significant changes to Foxx’s policies and supported restorative justice courts and diversion programs favored by Foxx.</p><p>Both candidates essentially ran on progressive platforms. And Foxx took credit for that.</p><p> “I think what we've seen in this race, again, are ideas that were not dissimilar on many aspects, and voters having to make a choice about what they want to see in their next state's attorney,” she said.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<img class="Image" alt="Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx wears a taupe suit as she speaks to reporters inside the George Leighton Criminal Courthouse, with two other people seen in the background.." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a018092/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1684+0+158/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F61%2F43%2Fe709578747e780480450cab1b23f%2Ffrench-030624-13.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e389c4c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1684+0+158/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F61%2F43%2Fe709578747e780480450cab1b23f%2Ffrench-030624-13.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx speaks to reporters after the verdict was read for the Emonte Morgan trial at the George Leighton Criminal Courthouse earlier this month. Morgan was found guilty on all counts in the murder of Chicago Police Officer Ella French.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Foxx insisted that "I have no concerns about whomever comes in and does this work" because she believes part of her legacy is that "we are no longer questioning whether or not our system was broken, and instead we're actively working to fix it.</p><p>"I hope my legacy is that we have really difficult conversations that sometimes don't have really simple answers," she said. "And that we stop politicizing death and pain and real legitimate fear and work collectively on long term lasting solutions."</p><p>Foxx told reporters that she found Tuesday’s historically low turnout — just 22.9% of registered voters in the city and 17.7% in suburban Cook — “deeply concerning,” saying it “tells me that we have an electorate that has not been engaged and that's very troubling, not just for the state's attorney's race, but for our democracy as a whole.”</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Foxx became a national figure during her time in office, though a polarizing one who has had a significant impact on criminal justice in Cook County.</p><p>Under Foxx, the office overturned hundreds of convictions of people who were victims of alleged police misconduct and undertook efforts to vacate convictions for low-level marijuana offenses after the state legalized recreational marijuana. She also was an important supporter of the SAFE-T Act, which made Illinois the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail.</p><p>But Foxx also faced criticism from the Chicago police union and former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, particularly over her handling of the Jussie Smollett case. The actor ultimately was found guilty of lying to police about being the victim of a hate crime attack that prosecutors said he staged. Foxx dropped the initial charges against Smollett, though the actor was later charged again. Earlier this month, Smollett asked the Illinois Supreme Court to overturn his conviction.</p><p>Foxx also clashed with Emanuel’s successor, Lori Lightfoot, and her police superintendent, David Brown, on cases in which her office declined to approve felony charges.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Fox (right) listens as Chicago Police Supt. David Brown speaks to reporters at a news conference at Chicago Police Headquarters last year.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>The primary race between Harris and Burke was expected to be a referendum on Foxx, who was part of the first wave of so-called progressive prosecutors to be elected across the country. Foxx announced last year she would not seek a third term, despite winning her races handily both times.</p><p>While she insists the race has not been a referendum on her, she proudly suggests she is her own legacy.</p><p> “I grew up in Cabrini, “ Foxx told reporters Thursday. “My legacy is a girl from 624 West Division, the child of a single mom, who grew up in this city in one of the toughest neighborhoods, who got an opportunity to go to college, law school, become a prosecutor and the top prosecutor.</p><p> “What I know is when I see little Black girls and Black boys and people who live in neighborhoods like the one I grew up in, they know that it is possible to come from an environment like the one I came from and not be a statistic. That legacy that cannot be undone.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx shakes paradegoers’ hands during the Bud Billiken Parade in the Bronzeville neighborhood in 2021.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Cynthia Jones and Jody Roberts, grandparents of 14-year-old Amere Deese, who was fatally shot Feb. 25, speak to a reporter near their South Shore home the day after the shooting.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Zubaer Khan/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>After his mother's death two years ago, 14-year-old Amere Deese befriended an older boy who became a big brother figure. </p><p>Thursday morning, that 16-year-old boy was charged with shooting and killing Deese and two other people in a home in Chatham last month. </p><p>"They were friends," Cynthia Jones, Amere’s grandmother, told the Chicago Sun-Times. "To the point where they were wearing my grandson's clothes, shoes, you know. For somebody to be that close to you and then to turn around and do what he did ... </p><p>"I'm really just beyond. ... How could you do something like that?" she asked.</p><p>Antonio Velasco, 16, was charged as an adult with three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder of a fourth person who was shot in the Feb. 25 attack. Police say Velasco opened fire in the home in the 8000 block of South Vincennes Avenue after deciding he wanted to steal a rifle.</p><p>Jones said she was "grateful" Velasco had been apprehended, but she feels an overwhelming "sense of hurt."</p><p>"Hurt in the way you took my grandson's life, hurt in the way you befriended my grandson, you gained his confidence," Jones said. "And then hurt for all the families involved, including his parents, because I know they never thought that they would have to deal with something like this. So I have a lot of anger and hurt at the same time."</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>The four victims — Amere; Ladeverett West-Ringgold, 20; Randy Graham, 36; and a 16-year-old boy — had been hanging out in a bedroom and playing with the rifle, which was eventually set on the floor behind a television in the room, prosecutors said.</p><p>Velasco showed up later with his 13-year-old brother, and the group smoked marijuana, prosecutors said. At some point, Velasco allegedly left the room and returned holding a handgun with an extended magazine. </p><p>"Up that chop," he told the group, a reference to wanting the rifle, according to prosecutors.</p><p>Velasco's younger brother picked up the rifle, and Velasco opened fire, fatally striking Deese, West-Ringold and Graham and wounding the 16-year-old in his leg, prosecutors said. </p><p>West-Ringgold' mother heard the shots but thought it was a video game, according to a police report. Prosecutors said she saw Velasco in the hallway as he fled with the rifle, then found the victims. </p><p>Two people believed to be Velasco and his brother were recorded by a surveillance camera in the neighborhood holding a rifle in a nearby backyard shortly afterward, but the footage did not clearly capture their faces, prosecutors said. </p><p>The brothers were recorded by another surveillance camera later that day when they arrived at their home together. </p><p>Velasco, from the Grand Crossing neighborhood, was taken into custody Monday in south suburban Hazel Crest while walking down the street, according to his arrest report. He was allegedly identified as one of the gunman by several witnesses, including the surviving 16-year-old boy.</p><p>The police report stated that Velasco fled from uniformed officers and that an officer was injured taking Velasco into custody while conducting an “emergency takedown.”</p><p>Neither the handgun used in the shooting nor the rifle have been recovered, prosecutors said. </p><p>Police officials on Thursday said there was a second "person of interest" in the investigation who was not in custody, but did not say if that was the 13-year-old.</p><p>A spokeswoman for Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx said there were no charges pending against Velasco's younger brother, but declined to provide more information. </p><p>Defense attorney Patrick Fagan said Velasco lived with his family and has a child of his own. He asked that his client be released pending trial, noting he had no other criminal background. </p><p>Assistant State's Attorney Anne McCord Rodgers argued for Velasco's detention, saying he posed a danger to the community if released.</p><p>“This is not a random crime. …He knew these people, and he shot them in cold blood and ran out of the house," the prosecutor said. "I don’t know how you get more dangerous than that.”</p><p>Judge Kelly McCarthy agreed to hold Velasco in custody pending trial, noting that “the only motivation here seems to be, I want that rifle. And now three people are dead."</p><p>Deese's funeral was held Friday, and family is still working to "adjust" to life without him, his grandmother said.</p><p>"This baby had a very healthy, fruitful life ahead of him," Jones said. "And this young man just took that away from us. So it's hard right now just even trying to make the adjustment of knowing that I will never see him being the man, the father, the husband. I will never get a chance to see that."</p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/03/21/boy-16-charged-with-killing-three-in-chatham-shooting-including-14-year-oldMatthew HendricksonSophie Sherry2024-03-19T20:27:05.077-05:002024-03-19T23:03:39.399-05:00Joy Virginia Cunningham holds onto Illinois Supreme Court seat
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Illinois Supreme Court Justice Joy Cunningham (left) speaks to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle at Valois Restaurant in Hyde Park on election day.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>Illinois Supreme Court Justice Joy Virginia Cunningham declared victory Tuesday night as she fended off a challenge from Jesse Reyes in his second bid to become the court’s first Latino justice.</p><p>Their Democratic primary contest between two highly qualified and experienced candidates focused on racial identity.</p><p>Associated Press results naming Cunningham as the victor had throughout the evening showed Cunningham commanding a consistent lead with about 75% of the vote to Reyes’ 25%.</p><p>“I am truly humbled, honored and prepared to do my best to serve you as your Supreme Court justice,” Cunningham told a crush of supporters at Holiday Club in Uptown Tuesday night amid spinning disco balls. "This victory is not just mine, it's our victory. Every single person in this room played a role."</p><p>She did not say whether she had spoken with Reyes, whose campaign had not conceded.</p><p>Reyes and his family hosted a party at Moe’s Cantina in River North, where he had arrived to a roar of applause from his supporters amid bachata music playing over the speakers. But as the early results flashed over the TV favoring Cunningham, the room fell quiet.</p><p>“We’re really proud of our race,” Reyes told the Chicago Sun-Times by telephone. “We were able to expose two major issues, lack of diversity and lack of transparency.</p><p>“I want to congratulate Joy Cunningham.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Illinois Appellate Judge Jesse Reyes, Democratic primary candidate for Illinois Supreme Court, poses for a photo for his 28-year-old daughter Renee Reyes as he votes Tuesday at Sisters of Mercy in Mount Greenwood.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Cunningham, the second Black female justice in Illinois, was appointed to the seat in 2022 to fill a vacancy left by retiring Chief Justice Anne Burke. Reyes, an appellate justice, launched his challenge not on complaints about her performance but on grounds that Latinos have grown to make up more than 25% of Cook County’s population — and should be represented on the state’s highest court.</p><p>With no Republicans running as candidates in the 1st District, one of three seats representing the uber-Democratic Cook County, Cunningham will likely run unopposed in November’s general election for a 10-year term. The Democratic party endorsed her over Reyes.</p><p>It’s likely Democrats will maintain their 5-2 majority on the Supreme Court, but both candidates argued their contest matters especially now that state supreme courts have been asked to weigh in on national issues, such as voting rights and reproductive rights.</p><p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/2/11/24063908/joy-cunningham-jesse-reyes-illinois-supreme-court-march-19-primary-preview" >In an interview with the Sun-Times in January</a>, Cunningham called Illinois “an oasis in a desert of red states and suppressed rights in many respects … state supreme courts are now at the forefront of guarding constitutional rights for the people who live within their borders because the federal courts have stepped away from the protections that we previously looked to the federal courts to give us.”</p><p>The Illinois Supreme Court also acts as the administrative authority for all state courts — in addition to ruling on cases. Following the implementation of the SAFE-T Act, which eliminated cash bail and required major changes to court operations, Illinois appellate courts have confronted new procedural challenges.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-center><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-4e0000" name="module-4e0000"></a>
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<div class="PagePromo-description">“This is not the result we wanted. We’re gonna have to take a real hard look at what happened and figure out how to move forward from here,” said Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, who was instrumental in getting the binding referendum on the ballot.</div>
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<div class="PagePromo-description">With almost 90% of the vote counted, Guzmán was declared the winner over Toro, defeating her with almost 50% of the vote to Toro’s 30%. Guzmán won despite raising less than $658,000, or about a quarter of the amount of money raised for Toro.</div>
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<div class="PagePromo-description">Jesús “Chuy” García is a fixture in Chicago politics, with four decades as an alderperson, Cook County commissioner, state senator and two-time mayoral candidate.</div>
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<span>By </span><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/authors/mitchell-armentrout" >Mitchell Armentrout</a>, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/authors/mariah-rush" >Mariah Rush</a>, and 1 more
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<a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/03/19/election-cook-county-court-clerk-martinez-spyropoulos-illinois-primary-2024-results" >Mariyana Spyropoulos beats Democratic incumbent in race for Cook County Circuit Court clerk</a>
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<div class="PagePromo-description">Spyropoulos, a commissioner on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District board, had far more campaign contributions than Iris Martinez and the backing of the county Democratic Party.</div>
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<a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/03/19/low-turnout-chicago-2024-primary-election" >‘Shockingly low turnout’ during Tuesday’s primary election in Chicago</a>
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<div class="PagePromo-description">Part of the reason comes down to the presidential race at the top of the ballot, according to Max Bever of the Chicago Board of Elections. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have already secured the votes needed to be nominated this summer at their party conventions.</div>
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<span>By </span><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/authors/kaitlin-washburn" >Kaitlin Washburn</a>
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<a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/03/19/illinois-chicago-primary-2024-bost-bailey-trump-foster-casten" >Trump nod helps Republican Bost beat Bailey downstate; Democrats Foster, Casten win in suburbs</a>
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<div class="PagePromo-description">U.S. Rep. Mike Bost declared victory at about 9:41 p.m., and Bailey conceded 15 minutes later. Democratic U.S. Reps. Sean Casten and Bill Foster held on to their suburban congressional seats.</div>
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<div class="PagePromo-description">Chicago voter turnout was at or near historic lows, likely a signal of either displeasure with the candidates or recognition the party nominees were predetermined.</div>
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</div><p>In terms of qualifications, the two have similar backgrounds. They have been colleagues on the Illinois Appellate Court, with Reyes serving from 2012, when he became the first Latino elected to that court, and Cunningham from 2006 until 2022. Both have spent significant time on lower court benches in Cook County after earning law degrees at the John Marshall Law School.</p><p>And both candidates attracted high ratings from local bar associations.</p><p>Cunningham’s campaign website touts her as the first Black woman elected president of the Chicago Bar Association, the country’s largest. She was an associate judge then moved to private practice as general counsel for Northwestern Memorial Health Care. Before her law career, Cunningham worked as an intensive care nurse.</p><p>Reyes worked in the office of the city’s corporation counsel under Mayor Harold Washington before being elected an associate judge. He ran unsuccessfully in 2020 for the Illinois Supreme Court,<a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2020/3/18/21186080/neville-holds-illinois-supreme-court-seat-after-concession-from-reyes" target="_blank" > eventually conceding to Justice P. Scott Neville Jr.</a></p><p>He secured the endorsements of U.S. Reps. Jesús “Chuy” Garcia, D-Chicago, and Delia Ramirez, D-Chicago, and labor unions such as IBEW Local 134, the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 150, International Brotherhood of Teamsters – Joint Council No. 25 and Chicago Fire Fighters Union–Local 2.</p><p>Cunningham attracted endorsements from powerful labor unions, including the SEIU Illinois State Council, the Illinois AFL-CIO, Chicago Teachers Union, Illinois Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31. She also has the backing of the Fraternal Order of Police. U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Chicago, and two-time presidential candidate the Rev. Jesse Jackson also have endorsed her candidacy.</p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/03/19/joy-virginia-cunningham-jesse-reyes-supreme-court-illinois-primary-2024-resultsLauren FitzPatrickSophie Sherry2024-03-18T10:38:50.051-05:002024-03-18T19:08:42.1-05:00Intruder vandalizes Loop mosque, is accused of blurting offensive statements during prayers
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<p>An intruder burst into a Loop mosque and blurted offensive statements to congregants during nightly prayers Sunday, police and shaken mosque leaders said.</p><p>Community leaders say this latest attack is part of a rise in anti-Muslim hate, which has been incited by the dialogue surrounding the Israel-Hamas war and the United States’ response.</p><p>“It really ties into — from our side of the looking glass — to the situation in Gaza,” Abdullah Mitchell, executive director of the Council Of Islamic Organizations Of Greater Chicago said Monday. </p><p>“How can we allow over 31,000 people, innocent citizens to be killed and not have any reaction? And now it's spilling over here ... where we have people thinking now they must take this fight and fight Muslims right here in the United States. That's totally unacceptable," Mitchell said. </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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</div><p>Just before nightly prayers for Ramadan around 8 p.m., a man approached the Downtown Islamic Center, 213 S. State St., police and mosque spokesperson Salman Azam said.</p><p>Surveillance video captured much of the intrusion.</p><p>Imad, who asked to be referred to by only first name for safety reasons, was working the security desk for the center at the time.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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</div></div><p>While the center is open to all, those entering must be buzzed in at the front desk. </p><p>But a man, who appears to be bleeding from his face, can be seen on the video slipping in behind a pair of women who Imad said he had buzzed in. The man was behaving erratically and can been seen screaming and yelling at Imad on the video, which does not have an audio track.</p><p>Imad described the remarks as disparaging. And Azam said the man also said abhorrent things to people praying, such as "Muslims should die."</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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</div><p>Imad continued to ask the man to leave, opening the door for him and eventually getting him to exit the building.</p><p>Once outside, the man can be seen kicking the glass door, only to return a few seconds later with an object — which Imad believed to be a chair — that the man used to shatter the glass. The man then walks away, the video footage shows.</p><p>Emaad Masroor arrived for evening prayer just after the man left. He was saddened to see the shattered glass but not surprised. This was the second time someone had attacked a mosque he attends.</p><p>“A lot of hate has been increasing recently, since October,” Masroor told the Sun-Times Monday afternoon. “It's one thing to spread so much hate, but it's another thing when it's rooted in so much misinformation.”</p><p>Still, the attack did not deter Masroor or other congregants from attending evening prayer.</p><p>“Every time something like this happens, our Muslim community, we just rally together,” Masroor said. “Everyone has each other's back, and that's really beautiful to see.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Emaad Masroor speaks about arriving after the incident at the Downtown Islamic Center at 231 S. State St. in the Loop on Monday.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Anthony Vazquez/Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>The Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has joined Azam and the Council Of Islamic Organizations Of Greater Chicago in asking authorities to investigate the incident as a hate crime.</p><p>It's unclear whether police have classified the incident as such.</p><p>“Because of the alleged threats made to worshipers and the vandalism targeting the mosque, we urge state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate this incident as a possible hate crime and to step up security for this and other houses of worship in the area,” Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, wrote in a statement. “Every American should be free to practice their faith without fear of intimidation or attack.”</p><p>Roman Catholic Cardinal Blase J. Cupich said he stands with the Muslim community in condeming the “hateful rhetoric and actions.”</p><p>“I denounce the vandalization that took place last evening at the Downtown Islamic Center in Chicago,” the archbishop of Chicago wrote on Monday. “It is also deeply troubling to hear that before this act of vandalism took place members of the local Muslim community were threatened upon arriving for prayer during Ramadan, their holiest time of year. </p><p>"There is no place for this behavior, and I stand with the Muslim community of Chicago and all people of good will in calling for an end to such hateful rhetoric and actions."</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The Downtown Islamic Center at 231 S. State St. on Monday. A man broke the one of the planes of glass of the main entrance door after mosque leaders said he made hateful comments. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Anthony Vazquez/Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2023/10/19/23924353/jewish-and-muslim-leaders-warn-of-rise-in-antisemitic-and-anti-muslim-acts-as-war-israel-and-gaza" target="_blank" >Hate crimes against Muslims</a> have increased in the area since the onset of the war in Gaza last fall, ranging in severity from vandalism and derogatory language to the<a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2023/10/15/23918129/muslim-hate-crime-wadea-al-fayoume-plainfield-joseph-czuba-palestinian-israel-war-murder" target="_blank" > killing of a Palestinian-American boy in Plainfield</a>.</p><p>The uptick in Islamophobia has shaken the Muslim community, Azam said, and the mosque should have been a "safe space" for the community to gather and pray.</p><p>"Heading into the month of Ramadan, the holy month, they were looking for peace and serenity," Azam said. "Seeing what transpired last night justifiably frightened them. ... People shouldn't be afraid to come to houses of worship."</p><p>The mosque is working with Chicago police, and CAIR and has hired private security in the wake of the crime. </p><p>Some said they hope Chicago police will station a squad car outside for Friday afternoon prayers when the center can draw almost 1,000 congregants, and during evening prayers when congregants leave well after dark.</p><p>Area 3 detectives are investigating, but no one had been arrested by Monday evening.<br></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/03/18/loop-mosque-vandalized-muslims-should-die-offensive-ramadanMary NorkolSophie Sherry2024-03-15T14:48:44.191-05:002024-03-16T12:00:51.082-05:00Man charged with killing boy, stabbing pregnant mom -- but questions remain why he was released from prison
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Police officers investigate a crime scene inside Peterson Plaza on Ravenswood Avenue on Wednesday, after a woman was stabbed and an 11-year-old boy was fatally wounded, according to police.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>As Chicago’s top cop announced charges Friday against a convicted felon accused of <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/03/13/2-shot-preteenboy-woman-north-side-critical-condition" target="_blank" >brutally stabbing his ex-girlfriend and killing her 11-year-old son</a>, Police Supt. Larry Snelling repeatedly said the attack “should’ve never happened.”</p><p>But questions remained over what should have been done to prevent the attack, including why Crosetti Brand, 37, was released from the Stateville Correctional Center on Tuesday after having been sent back to prison earlier this year for menacing the pregnant woman while on parole.</p><p>The next day, Brand allegedly forced his way into the woman's Edgewater apartment, stabbed her repeatedly, then stabbed her son Jayden Perkins when the boy came to her aid.</p><p>The woman had repeatedly asked for help from authorities in the weeks before the attack, including seeking an emergency order of protection that was denied by a Cook County judge.</p><p>Amanda Pyron, executive director of The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence, said officials treated the woman's case with "an indifference bordering on malice."</p><h3>Repeated violations of protection orders</h3><p>During a detention hearing Friday, prosecutors said the woman had been alerted when Brand was released on parole in October because she was the victim in previous domestic violence cases against Brand, including repeated violations of protection orders.</p><p>Just months after his release, the woman received a text message from Brand on Jan. 30 threatening her family, prosecutors said. Two days later, he allegedly appeared at the door of her apartment building in the 5900 block of North Ravenswood Avenue.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Prosecutors said the woman informed the state parole officials. When confronted by a commander from the Illinois Department of Corrections, Brand admitted going to the woman's home but claimed he was "looking for an apartment."</p><p>Still, Brand was sent back to prison while the Illinois Prisoner Review Board considered the allegations, prosecutors said.</p><p>The board held a hearing and “determined the alleged violations did not meet the preponderance of evidence standard,” it said in a statement, adding that Brand was “returned to parole on March 12 and notifications were made again to registered victims.”</p><p>The board did not say why they did not find Brand in violation of his parole, given Brand’s criminal record and his past experience with the woman.</p><p>In the meantime, the woman sought an emergency protection order. During a Feb. 21 hearing, the woman told Judge Thomas Nowinski that Chicago police didn’t let her file a report when she called about Brand. Instead, they told her to get a protection order. “They asked me, do I have one currently,” she said, “and I told them no.”</p><p>At no time during the hearing did the judge ask questions about the alleged texts or Brand’s visit to the home, according to a transcript.</p><p>Nowinski decided against issuing an order, even though the woman testified under oath that she had previously sought one against Brand in 2009.</p><p>The judge ruled there was no apparent emergency because Brand was behind bars again. There’s no indication in the transcript that the judge knew how long Brand would be jailed.</p><p>The judge scheduled a hearing for this past Wednesday, but by then the attack had already happened.</p><h3><b>Getting kids ready for school</b></h3><p>The woman was on her phone with her mother, shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday, when she opened the door of her apartment and Brand allegedly forced his way in.</p><p>The woman's mother said she could hear her daughter screaming "no" and using a nickname for Brand as he repeatedly stabbed her, according to prosecutors. Then the line went dead.</p><p>The woman's son Jayden “attempted numerous times to help his mother and was also stabbed,” prosecutors said. The knife severed a major artery, and the boy bled to death.</p><p>The woman was able to lock herself into a bedroom, and Brand finally left after kicking at the door, prosecutors said. He was allegedly caught on several surveillance cameras fleeing, including one that showed him tossing a "silver item" over a fence. A bloody knife was later found there.</p><p>The woman, who was four months pregnant, later identified Brand as the attacker. She and her unborn baby were expected to survive, prosecutors said.</p><p>After hearing the graphic details of the attack, Judge Maryam Ahmad ordered Brand detained on murder, attempted murder, home invasion, armed robbery and other charges.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Police on Wednesday investigate the scene outside Peterson Plaza on Ravenswood Avenue, where a woman was stabbed and an 11-year-old boy was fatally wounded, according to police. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p></p><h3>‘Should not have been on the street’</h3><p>Officials have struggled to explain what protections were in place for the woman at the time of the attack.</p><p>Prosecutors have charged Brand with violating an order of protection that was supposedly in effect on the day of the attack.</p><p>When announcing the charges, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx told reporters that the woman had a “lifetime” order protecting her against Brand. But officials in Foxx’s office later walked back her statement, claiming the order "had no expiration date" and they were “still investigating” whether an order stemming from a 2009 conviction was still active.</p><p>A source familiar with the case said state officials had told the state's attorney's office that the order of protection in the 2009 case had no expiration date. </p><p>Brand has a long criminal history that included multiple convictions for violating orders of protection — including five separate violation involving the woman in the most recent attack. Before he was paroled in the fall, Brand was serving eight years of a 16-year sentence for attacking another ex-partner and pointing a gun at her young son in 2015.</p><p>Asked why the woman would seek a new order when one was already in place, Foxx insisted the woman “was fully aware that there was an order of protection,” saying again that it was a “lifetime” order.</p><p>State officials have been unable to say why, if that were the case, Brand wasn’t charged with violating the protection order after the Feb. 1 incident.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Mourners embrace outside Peterson Plaza in the 5900 block of North Ravenswood Avenue on Wednesday after an 11-year-old boy was killed and his mother was stabbed, according to police.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Amid the confusion, Foxx and Snelling both questioned the handling of the case, though without taking accountability.</p><p>Snelling said he didn’t “have a good answer” when he was asked why Brand was paroled this week, and he referred questions to the Illinois Department of Corrections.</p><p>“My feeling is that he should not have been,” the police superintendent said. “He violated parole, he violated an order of protection, and it involved the same type of crime that he was paroled for. So this is someone who should not have been on the street.”</p><p>Foxx called for “an evaluation” of Brand’s case and others “to ensure that there were no gaps in the justice system that would allow for a dangerous offender to commit the acts that he did.”</p><p>“As you heard the superintendent say, that there are questions,” she added. “And they’re questions that need to be examined and truthfully answered so that we can prevent something like this from happening in the future.”</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/03/15/pregnant-woman-denied-emergency-protection-order-before-stabbed-11-year-old-son-killedSophie SherryTom SchubaMatthew Hendrickson2024-03-13T18:51:01.555-05:002024-03-16T09:39:12.229-05:00Jaydone Perkins, 11, is killed and mom wounded; recent parolee arrested
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Mourners embrace each other outside Peterson Plaza on the North Side on Wednesday, after an 11-year-old boy was killed and his mother was stabbed, according to police.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>A man just released from prison for domestic assault has been arrested after an 11-year-old boy was killed and his pregnant mother critically wounded inside their home Wednesday on the North Side, officials said.</p><p>The suspect, 37, has a long criminal history that dates back to at least 2004 in Cook County. He has been convicted of domestic battery and violating orders of protection in several cases. No charges had been announced as of Wednesday evening.</p><p>He was taken into custody hours after police were called to an apartment in the 5900 block of North Ravenswood Avenue just before 8 a.m. and found Jayden Perkins and his mother, 33, authorities said. The boy had suffered an injury to his chest, and the mother had been repeatedly stabbed.</p><p>“Someone is bleeding from the neck,” an officer on the scene radioed. “The son is on the floor.”</p><p>The two were taken to Presence St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where the boy was pronounced dead and his mother was listed in critical condition, according to the Chicago Fire Department and the medical examiner's office.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Police on Wednesday investigate the scene outside Peterson Plaza on the North Side, where a woman was stabbed and an 11-year-old boy was fatally wounded, according to police.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>An officer dispatched to the hospital reported the woman was eight months pregnant. Earlier police reports said both the boy and the woman had been shot, but the department later said the woman suffered "multiple stab wounds." The department did not elaborate on the injury suffered by the boy.</p><p>Neighbors said a 5-year-old boy was in the home at the time but apparently was not hurt. Police would not comment, but sources said the woman had two children and was expecting her third.</p><p>A neighbor said she heard "screaming, just screaming" coming from the apartment Wednesday morning. She didn't know the victims well but said they were mother and son.</p><p>"She was a lovable woman, her son was very well-mannered and spoke to me all the time," she said. "I pray for the family. It's sad. I pray for her baby's father. I hope they get over this tragedy, and they grieve. It's tragic, I hope it never happens to anyone, ever again."</p><p>The attacker fled north on Ravenswood, officials said. The police department said in a statement Wednesday afternoon that an arrest had been made but gave no details.</p><p>The suspect was most recently convicted of aggravated domestic battery home invasion and possession of a stolen motor vehicle in 2017. State prison records show the suspect was paroled Tuesday from the Stateville Correctional Center, where he had been held since Feb. 1.</p><p>He previously noted in a filing in an ongoing civil rights lawsuit against state prison officials that he had been released from prison Oct. 6. It's unclear why he was sent back to prison in the same case. Officials with the Illinois Department of Corrections, the state Prisoner Review Board and the Cook County state's attorney's office didn't respond to questions.</p><p>The suspect had appealed the conviction all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court, which affirmed a previous appellate court decision denying his petition while allowing for a hearing on the suspect’s claim that his counsel was ineffective.</p><p>The conviction stemmed from Nov. 3, 2015, when the suspect forced his way into an ex-girlfriend’s Kenwood apartment and attacked her and her son while she was cooking dinner for her kids.</p><p>The woman had ended the relationship four days earlier and had rebuffed the suspect when he came to her workplace earlier that day. He later arrived at the apartment, pushed through the doorway when the woman answered and placed a gun to her chin, according to the Supreme Court ruling.</p><p>He then forced her against a wall and started choking her. When her teenage son tried to intervene, the suspect aimed the gun at the boy and asked, “Is this what you want?” according to court records.</p><p>After continuing the attack on the woman, the suspect fled in her Kia Sedona, according to the ruling. He was arrested weeks later and was found with the keys.</p><p>On Wednesday, shaken neighbors gathered outside the Ravenswood apartment building.</p><p>“This is a peaceful neighborhood. The most you’ll see that happens is a car crash,” one neighbor said. “Is this really happening? It’s scary.”</p><p>Many said they didn’t know the woman well, but she was polite and friendly. They often saw her taking her son to school.</p><p>“They were just good people,” the neighbor said. “Why would you do that to a child?”</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>A police officer walks outside Peterson Plaza on the North Side on Wednesday, where a woman was stabbed and an 11-year-old boy was fatally wounded, according to police.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>A police officer enters Peterson Plaza on the North Side after a woman was stabbed and an 11-year-old boy was fatally wounded, according to police.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Police officers stand outside Peterson Plaza on the North Side, where a woman was stabbed and an 11-year-old boy was fatally wounded, according to police Wednesday.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/03/13/2-shot-preteenboy-woman-north-side-critical-conditionMary NorkolTom SchubaKaitlin WashburnSophie Sherry2024-03-11T20:42:27.515-05:002024-03-12T19:13:13.184-05:00Chicago shuts down work on 'tiny house' at Dan Ryan homeless encampment
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The Orange Tent Project has been forced to halt construction of a wooden temporary shelter at an encampment near Roosevelt Road and the Dan Ryan, following a city-issued work stoppage order. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>The city has shut down work on a more secure structure for a resident of an encampment along the Dan Ryan Expressway.</p><p>The Orange Tent Project began building a temporary shelter, resembling a sort of tiny house, this month for a longtime resident of the encampment near Desplaines Street and Roosevelt Road in the South Loop. On Thursday evening the city placed a “stop work order" on the 6-by-8 foot structure, saying it was built without plans or permits. The developments were first reported by <a class="Link" href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/03/11/tiny-house-pops-up-in-south-loop-tent-city-but-will-the-city-let-it-stand/" target="_blank" >Block Club Chicago</a>.</p><p>About a year and a half ago, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/1/16/24040570/chicago-homeless-brutal-cold-snap-outreach-tent-city-roosevelt-canalport" target="_blank" >Morgan McLuckie, chief executive of the Orange Tent Project</a> — which has provided hundreds of ice fishing tents to unhoused people across the city — began working with architecture students at the Illinois Institute of Technology to design a safe and secure structure that would not require any permits.</p><p>“I wanted to come up with something sturdier than tents because ... people deserve more dignity and a more respectful place to lay their head each night,” McLuckie told the Sun-Times.</p><p>The design they landed on was under 400 square feet, less than 15 feet tall, and had no natural gas or electricity hook-up and no permanent foundation — within the parameters for building a shelter without permitting, McLuckie said.</p><p>The group began building the wooden structure toward the south end of the encampment March 3.</p><p>McLuckie originally wanted the shelter to go to an 80-year-old veteran and longtime resident of the camp named Smokey, but he died a day before building started.</p><p>“It is the most heartbreaking thing ever, a veteran, a senior veteran dying in a tent,” McLuckie said. “That's what I want to avoid in the future. Nobody should have to die in a tent, especially somebody who served our country.”</p><p>The group planned to finish construction of the shelter over the weekend, but the Department of Buildings placed an off limits/do not enter sticker and a stop work order on the structure, “because it was built without plans or permits,” according to a department spokesman.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The city posted signs to stop work on a shelter at a homeless encampment in the South Loop. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Morgan McLuckie/Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>McLuckie was under the impression this structure did not require permitting and has been in touch with the department, providing information she found during the design process.</p><p>The organization is stuck in a holding pattern awaiting further guidance from the city. The structure is not yet finished and should not be occupied, though on Monday someone had placed their belongings on and around the porch.</p><p>No one at the encampment knew what the future held for the wooden shelter, but one man said he hoped for the chance to live in one.</p><p>In the fall of 2022, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2022/10/25/23421148/homelessness-orange-tent-camp-andy-robledo-permanent-housing-chicago" target="_blank" >Andy Robledo launched his effort</a> to purchase high-quality, bright orange ice fishing tents for Chicago’s unhoused population.</p><p>The city initially pushed back against the effort, placing removal tags on several tents, but the group says it has found a way to work collaboratively with the city toward a shared goal of ending homelessness.</p><p>McLuckie hopes they can find a way to work together on this latest project. There is no indication the city plans to tear the new structure down, McLuckie said.</p><p>The city estimates there were 6,139 people experiencing homelessness in 2023, with 5,149 living in shelters and 990 living on the streets.</p><p>There are about 25 to 30 orange tents at the encampment near Roosevelt and the Dan Ryan, McLuckie said. The encampment is not near any residential homes and rarely draws major complaints, McLuckie said, which is why Orange Tent Project thought it would be a good place for the new structure.</p><p>Ald. Jason Ervin (28th), whose ward includes the encampment, says he supports “innovation” when it comes to affordable housing and providing shelter, “however, this has to be consistent with land-use rules promoting safety and community well-being."</p><p>While the orange tents provide some warmth during winter, they are still susceptible to the elements and not a “perfect solution,” McLuckie said.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>McLuckie hoped that the wooden structure, modeled after a tiny home, would better protect people from the elements and offer greater peace of mind.</p><p>“Ultimately, feeling comfortable and having a place to rest your head at night is what's going to get people out of their situation,” McLuckie said.</p><p>She received a note Monday from a man for whom she recently built a tent, which drove this message home.</p><p>The man wrote to McLuckie: “I just wanted to tell you how much you've enabled change in my life with the stability of a roof over my head and a good night's rest each night and every night since receiving my tent. I've been able to enroll in the care collective workshop and work program as of March 4th. I arrived there every day well-rested and energized. I have three more weeks to go, and I'm very optimistic about my success.”</p><p>The mayor’s office did not respond to questions about the work stoppage order. It issued a statement last week pointing to Mayor Brandon Johnson's support of a proposed bond ordinance that would allocate funds toward affordable housing, home ownership and wrap-around services.</p><p>The statement also pointed to Johnson’s efforts to pass the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/03/11/bring-chicago-home-referendum-illinois-supreme-court-real-estate-groups" >Bring Chicago Home ordinance</a>, putting a referendum on the March 19 primary ballot asking Chicagoans to create a dedicated fund to combat homelessness.<br></p>
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