Chicago Sun-Times - News2024-03-18T20:05:09.841-05:00https://chicago.suntimes.com/rss/news/index.xml2024-03-18T20:05:09.841-05:002024-03-18T20:48:16.478-05:00Man accused of killing boy, stabbing mom admitted he had shown up at home but was not kept in prison
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<img class="Image" alt="Police investigate the scene outside Peterson Plaza on Ravenswood Avenue, where a woman was stabbed and an 11-year-old boy was fatally wounded last Wednesday." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b8f45dc/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1680x943+0+89/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F45%2F1d%2Ff524189f42aa945003ba430f6ae2%2Fravenswood.jpeg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d9065cc/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1680x943+0+89/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F45%2F1d%2Ff524189f42aa945003ba430f6ae2%2Fravenswood.jpeg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Police investigate the scene outside Peterson Plaza on Ravenswood Avenue, where a woman was stabbed and an 11-year-old boy was fatally wounded last Wednesday. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>More than a month before a convicted felon allegedly killed an 11-year-old boy and repeatedly stabbed his pregnant mother last week, the parolee was sent back to prison when he admitted that he showed up at the woman’s home.</p><p>The woman had been alerted when Crosetti Brand, 37, was released on parole in October because she was the victim in previous domestic violence cases against him, including repeated violations of protection orders, prosecutors said in court Friday.</p><p>When Brand arrived at her North Side 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><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>A parole official then followed up, and she told him that Brand “was at her address ringing the door bell and pulling on the door handle,” the report states. Brand initially told the official that he was merely looking for an apartment.</p><p>He turned himself in that day, and he was sent to the Stateville Correctional Center and cited for a series of alleged parole violations, including coming into contact with the woman. </p><p>But within weeks, the Illinois Prisoner Review Board decided to release him again when Brand changed his story and denied going to her home.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<p>During a Feb. 26 hearing before the board, Brand and his attorney said there was no evidence that he traveled to the woman’s home, records show. Brand, who was on electronic monitoring at the time, insisted that “GPS would have picked up on it and it didn’t” — an account that was apparently backed up by data from a parolee tracking system.</p><p>The board determined there wasn’t enough evidence to corroborate the woman’s claims, even though she wasn’t called to testify, records show.</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. While officials have said the woman 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. On Friday, Judge Maryam Ahmad ordered Brand detained on murder, attempted murder, home invasion, armed robbery and other charges.</p><p>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 son in 2015. He also has a long record of convictions for violating orders of protections. </p><p>In December, he was accused of calling a person he wasn’t supposed to contact. He denied the allegation but was warned that “another complaint will result in movement restrictions,” records show. He was cited for five separate violations involving the woman who was stabbed. </p><p>Chicago police officials and Cook County prosecutors have struggled to explain what protections were in place for the woman.</p><p>During a news conference announcing the charges, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx told reporters the woman had a “lifetime” order protecting her against Brand. But officials in Foxx’s office later walked back that statement, claiming the order “had no expiration date” and saying 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 that case had no expiration date. 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><p>Both Foxx and Police Supt. Larry Snelling repeatedly questioned why Brand was released a day before he allegedly stabbed the woman and killed her son, Jayden Perkins.</p><p>“There are questions,” Foxx said at the news conference at police headquarters. “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>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/03/18/man-accused-killing-boy-stabbing-mom-not-kept-in-prisonTom Schuba2024-03-18T18:40:58.337-05:002024-03-18T19:57:18.389-05:00Lead in water a threat to two-thirds of young children in Chicago
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<img class="Image" alt="A city crew fixed a water pipe and replaced a lead service line in Calumet Heights on Friday. Nearby, officials announced a $336 million loan to the city to help replace lead lines." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a451114/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1684+0+158/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F25056806%2Fmerlin_117098780.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1a650d9/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1684+0+158/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F25056806%2Fmerlin_117098780.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<p>Two out of three very young children in Chicago were exposed to at least trace amounts of lead in their home tap water, a study found, highlighting the need for City Hall to speed up replacements of brain-damaging lead pipes.</p><p>A study by Johns Hopkins and Stanford researchers, published Monday in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics, used artificial intelligence to estimate the extent of exposure of children across the city to water from home faucets containing lead.</p><p>In all, 129,000 children, 68% of those 5 or younger had lead in their home drinking water, the study found.</p><p>Young children in Black and Latino communities were potentially exposed at even higher rates, according to the study, which looked at household testing data from 2016 to last fall. The researchers used machine learning and simulation to estimate the number of children affected.</p><p>“These findings indicate that childhood lead exposure is widespread in Chicago,” the researchers wrote.</p><p>Chicago has more lead service lines — <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/11/3/23944959/lead-water-line-replacement-chicago-biden-loan" >more than 400,000 </a>— than any other city in the country.</p><p>Mayor Brandon Johnson and former Mayor Lori <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/12/2/23488902/lead-water-service-line-replacement-chicago" >Lightfoot pledged</a> to tackle the problem, but the job is expected to take decades to complete. And even targeted programs, including work toward a <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/1/25/24050549/lead-water-pipes-threaten-child-brains-day-care-priority" >plan to remove harmful lead lines in home day care centers</a>, is moving slowly.</p><p>The city responded by saying that its water is in compliance with federal standards.</p><p>“Chicago’s water continues to meet and exceed all standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,” the city said in a statement. “There is always more to be done and we will continuously work towards a future where no child in Chicago is at risk of lead poisoning.”</p><p>The study looked at any trace of lead from 1 part per billion, about a half teaspoon of water in an Olympic-size swimming pool. The EPA will sound the alarm on lead levels in water when they are about 15 times that level.</p><p>Benjamin Huynh, an assistant professor of environmental health and engineering at Johns Hopkins and lead author of the study, doesn’t dispute that the city is within EPA guidelines.</p><p>“An action level set by EPA is not meant to be used as individual guidance,” Huynh said, noting that lead can cause serious developmental and neurological harm to children.</p><p>A health and environmental advocate agreed and said any research emphasizing the impact of lead on young children should stir politicians to act.</p><p>“Anytime children are involved, it points to the urgency,” said Chakena Perry, senior policy advocate for environmental health at the Natural Resources Defense Council.</p><p>Despite billions of dollars in federal resources to swap out lead lines, Chicago has struggled to pay for the replacements.</p><p>Even after President Joe Biden declared the country would be free of lead pipes in a decade, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/11/30/23983127/biden-orders-lead-water-service-lines-chicago" >Chicago was given a pass</a> and has at least 40 years to complete the job.<br></p>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Erika Boyd (right), mother of Nathen Jones, holds Nathen’s hand during a press conference at the Salvi Schostok and Pritchard law offices on Monday after the Chicago City Council’s Finance Committee approved a $45 million settlement agreement in Nathen’s case, sending it to full Council for a vote on Wednesday. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>The unauthorized police chase that left her teen son on a feeding tube, unable to walk or speak also changed the course of Erika Boyd’s life.</p><p>She became the primary caregiver for Nathen Jones, now 18. </p><p>Her long, arduous days begin and end with tasks normally reserved for a baby.</p><p>“I don’t talk about all the hard work and dedication it takes to take care of my son and the effort and the hard work that his siblings put in. … This is gonna be the rest of our lives,” Erika Boyd told reporters shortly after <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2024/03/14/45-million-settlement-police-chase-crash-cpd-pursuit-policy-lawsuit-nathen-jones-city-council-committee" target="_blank" >the City Council’s Finance Committee authorized a $45 million settlement</a> to cover the medical care her son will need for the rest of his life.</p><p>“We seem to take things for granted. Like just being able to get up and stand up and get out of bed and use the restroom. He was able to do that before. He’s non-verbal, but ... we kind of know, like, OK, he’s kind of irritated and he wants to be changed. But he can’t say that. That’s something he’ll have to deal with for the rest of his life.”</p><p>With her son in a wheelchair at her side, Boyd said it was “kind of overwhelming” to see the Finance Committee put “an end to this part of it. … so that we can go on and try to do the best possible things to help Nathen. … That’s my baby boy.”</p><p>But she said “no amount of money” can compensate her family for the daily heartache that Chicago police officer Jhonathan Perez caused when he decided to chase a 2002 Volkswagen that went through stop signs at several Near West Side intersections in April 2021. Jones was a backseat passenger in that car.</p><p>“Nathen was a regular, happy, healthy, active 15-year-old kid. He brought our family a lot of joy. He still does. But the price that he had to pay for being in a car — no amount of money can bring back the child I had before this,” Erika Boyd said.</p><p>“He is greatly and deeply loved by everyone in his family. … I’ve grown to understand Nathen for who he is now. I love him with all my heart. I appreciate who he is now. His new personality is better than no personality at all. But, I definitely miss the child I had. He supported me. He made sure I was alright. Just a simple, 'Hey, Mom. How was your day?' I’ll never be able to get that — ever.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Erika Boyd, mother of Nathen Jones, speaks to reporters on Monday.</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>Before signing off on one of the largest settlements in Chicago history, the Finance Committee was told Perez did not get permission from or even notify his supervisor before initiating the chase, which reached speeds up to 67 mph. Had he done so, he likely would have been reminded the newly-revised pursuit policy prohibits officers from initiating a chase when the most serious offense being committed by the target of the pursuit is a traffic violation or even a theft.</p><p>Deputy Corporation Counsel Margaret Mendenhall Casey warned the committee of the risks of going to trial.</p><p>She acknowledged a jury would likely “apportion fault” between the city and Khalil Raggs, the convicted felon driving the Volkswagen. After blowing several stop signs, Raggs, westbound on Grand Avenue, then went through a red light, colliding with a southbound Toyota at Damen Avenue. That sharing of fault was likely even though Perez had turned off his emergency lights and sirens and began to stop his unmarked Ford Explorer roughly a block away from the crash site.</p><p>As Mendenhall Casey reminded alderpersons on the committee, under state law governing jury instructions, if the city were found even 1% responsible for the crash that forever changed the teen’s life, the city would have to pay all of Nathen Jones’ medical expenses.</p><p>That amounts to “at least $44 million” for an 18-year-old with a normal life expectancy — and the potential award easily could top $100 million, if a jury were to also compensate Jones for “pain and suffering and loss of a normal life,” Mendenhall Casey said.</p><p>At trial, "we certainly would argue that the sole cause of this accident is Khalil Raggs and his bad driving, but we’re making this recommendation [to settle] because that argument … is not likely to succeed."</p><p>Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th) asked if Perez was told to end the pursuit. That's when Mendenhall Casey said supervisors “did not have the opportunity to tell him" to do so, because Perez never called to notify his bosses, as required by the chase policy.</p><p>“For a stop sign, we’ve got a young person who is never gonna walk, never gonna eat, never gonna talk, never gonna get to have a baby. Never gonna be able to do any of those things and we’re arguing about this and this little money,” Taylor said.</p><p>“That can’t replace [a normal life]. We don’t know what that young person’s life would have been had the officer not pursued for rolling a stop sign. … How is this family supposed to take care of this young person for the rest of his life?”</p><p><i>Contributing: Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere</i></p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Nathen Jones is pushed into a conference room by his brother before a press conference at the Salvi Schostok and Pritchard law offices on Monday.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Hong Liu, executive director of the Midwest Asian Health Association, speaks at the official opening of the family advocacy center at the Midwest Asian Health Association on Monday. “Among all populations, Asian immigrant families are the least likely to seek help from mainstream resources,” Liu said, pointing to language and cultural barriers.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Zubaer Khan/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>The state on Monday opened its first center designed to connect Asian American families with government resources.</p><p>“Our family advocacy center will serve as a one-stop shop for information, connection and support with programs to strengthen families and help them maintain stability in this country,” said Hong Liu, executive director of the Midwest Asian Health Association, which will operate the center at 218 W. 26th St. in Armour Square.</p><p>The nonprofit “is a trusted community organization for providing resources with respect, care and support,” Liu said.</p><p>The center will offer case management services, parenting support groups, health insurance enrollment, a food pantry, immunizations and monthly health screenings. </p><p>The center will also support family reunifications and stabilize foster placements. Services will be available in English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Spanish.</p><p>It will serve Chicago’s Asian American community with funding from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Liu said.</p><p>“Among all populations, Asian immigrant families are the least likely to seek help from mainstream resources,” Liu said during the center’s opening event on Monday, pointing to language and cultural barriers.</p><p>The Midwest Asian Health Association currently provides health education and preventive health care services, such as screenings, immunizations, annual checkups, lab testing and doctor referrals. </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The new health center for Asian Americans will offer case management services, parenting support groups, health insurance enrollment, a food pantry, immunizations and monthly health screenings. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Zubaer Khan/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Family advocacy centers are a statewide network of community-based providers with the objective of supporting families to keep them out of the state’s child welfare system. These groups tailor their preventive services to the specific needs of the communities they serve. There are 38 family advocacy centers in Illinois and they accept referrals from DCFS and other community stakeholders.</p><p>In addition to running the family advocacy center, the Midwest Asian Health Association received a $287,000 DCFS grant.</p><p>Also at Monday’s event was Grace Hou, a state deputy governor; Heidi Muller, director of DCFS; state Sen. Celina Villanueva, D-Chicago; <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/2/8/24065116/theresa-mah-illinois-house-24th-district" target="_blank" >state Rep. Theresa Mah, D-Chicago</a>; Ada Tong, chief of Asian American services for DCFS; and Jeongling Liu, the board president of the Midwest Asian Health Association.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2024/03/18/midwest-asian-health-association-opens-family-advocacy-center-in-chicagoKaitlin Washburn2024-03-18T16:55:45.877-05:002024-03-18T20:41:38.041-05:00Hubbard Inn sues Julia Reel, woman who claimed in viral video that staff assaulted her
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Hubbard Inn, at 110 W. Hubbard, has sued a customer who claimed in a viral video that she was assaulted by a security guard.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Sun-Times files</p></div></div>
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<p>A River North restaurant is suing a woman who posted a viral video claiming she was manhandled by the establishment’s security and thrown down stairs.</p><p>In a lawsuit filed Monday in Cook County, Hubbard Inn alleges the woman defamed the business in her video last week and triggered an onslaught of negative reviews, threats and cancellations at the business at 110 W. Hubbard St.</p><p>The woman, Julia Reel, 22, alleged in her video and a police report that a bouncer pulled her from a second-floor restroom and twice threw her down a set of stairs shortly after midnight on March 10.</p><p>She was treated for bruises and a concussion at an emergency room, her lawyers say.</p><p>“I’m just pushed down. He sends me flying down the staircase,” Reel said in a now-deleted video on the social media site TikTok. The post was viewed more than 100,000 times before she took it down, the lawsuit claims. </p><p>The restaurant defended itself in its own video posted to TikTok last week, juxtaposing security video of her being escorted outside alongside the woman’s original video where she said she was assaulted.</p><p>“Below is footage of Ms. Reel walking down the stairs toward the exit,” the restaurant said in its video captions. “She was politely escorted off the premises, ensuring a safe exit.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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</div><p>Lawyers representing Reel released a video statement over the weekend, also on TikTok, claiming the restaurant’s video presents a “misleading narrative” and the security footage has an unexplained two-minute gap and doesn’t show part of the staircase where she was allegedly pushed.</p><p>“Respectfully, we urge the public to hold off on a rush to judgment and/or victim shaming until all of the evidence is presented in a court of law,” Reel’s lawyers at the firm Corboy & Demetrio <a class="Link" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@corboydemetrio/video/7347088233555135774" target="_blank" >said in their video</a>.</p><p>Reel declined to be interviewed by the Sun-Times. So did the restaurant’s owner, Carmen Rossi.</p><p>The restaurant’s video also was shared widely, leading to some comments critical of Reel. The website Reddit disabled comments on one post about the video because people were sharing Reel’s personal information.</p><p>In its lawsuit, Hubbard Inn claims the woman and her friend were verbally abusive to staff in the second-floor restroom, prompting the guard to escort the women outside.</p><p>The restaurant says the edited security videos have only a 45-second gap, and that security video does not show eight steps of the staircase.</p><p>“Not surprisingly, Hubbard Inn’s security camera footage does not cover every square foot of the premises,” the lawsuit states. “The footage does show, however, Defendant being calmly escorted … out of the establishment.”</p><p>“This clearly contradicts her false allegations that she was ‘grabb[ed],’ ‘manhandle[d],’ and ‘dragg[ed]’ out of the bathroom and into the hallway, and ‘shoved’ down the stairs, sending her ‘flying down the rest of the staircase,’ at which point she ‘slammed her head on the ground,’” the lawsuit reads.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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</div><p>The woman filed a report with Chicago police while she was being treated in Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s emergency department.</p><p>According to the police report, Reel, reporting an assault, told police that a guard came into the restroom stall where she was urinating and pulled her out by grabbing her arm. The guard said, “We know what you are doing,” and pushed her toward the exit — before she could fully dress — and down the stairs, the report states.</p><p>Reel and her friend went to the hospital, where Reel was treated for her injuries, including a “bruised up arm and head,” which struck the floor, the police report states. The report does not mention a concussion.</p><p>Chicago police on Monday said no one has been arrested in connection with the incident.</p><p>Hubbard Inn, which opened in 2011, operates under the restaurant group 8 Hospitality, owned by Rossi, who was <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2023/4/24/23696792/carmen-rossi-lori-lightfoot-kenneth-meyer-lollapalooza-lobbying-rules-fine-ethics" target="_blank" ><u>fined</u></a> last year for violating City Hall lobbying rules.</p><p>A spokesperson for Rossi said he was hoping to avoid filing a lawsuit but had no choice after Reel’s lawyers “posted another video attacking our establishment.”</p><p>In its lawsuit, the restaurant said it had tried to contact Reel after she posted the first video but never heard back.</p><p>Reel’s attorney declined to comment on the lawsuit. “The civil justice system is well equipped to resolve the disputes between the parties,” attorney Bill Gibbs said in a statement shared by a spokesperson.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/03/18/hubbard-inn-tik-tok-video-defamation-lawsuit-woman-assault-allegation-river-northDavid StruettCindy Hernandez2024-03-18T16:28:30.743-05:002024-03-18T17:02:38.096-05:00Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Warren Hickox House in Kankakee hits market for nearly $800,000
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The Warren Hickox House is one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s first Prairie-style homes and was built next door to another Wright home along the Kankakee River.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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<p>A Frank Lloyd Wright home in Kankakee has hit the market with an almost $800,000 price tag.</p><p>The Warren Hickox House, which sits about an hour south of Chicago in the 680 block of South Harrison Avenue, was listed Thursday for $779,000 through @properties agent Victoria Krause Schutte.</p><p>“It’s a living, breathing piece of art,” Schutte told the Sun-Times. “You walk into the home and you feel like you’re in a special place. … You just feel good there.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The home’s reading nook, with facing built-in bench seats, is said to have been where Frank Lloyd Wright brought his clients to show them the new direction his work was headed in with the Prairie Style.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>The privately owned cream and red home, built at the turn of the 20th century and last sold in 1976, was designed during a “turning point” for Wright as he started moving toward the Prairie style, Schutte said. The architect would often bring Chicago-area clients down to the home and seat them in the reading nook's facing built-in benches to help them visualize the new direction his work was taking.</p><p>Tall ceilings give the home a "Victorian feel," but the octagonal dining room and library on the first floor and Japanese geometry-inspired roof differentiate it from others in the same category, Schutte said. The home's kitchen was updated before the current owners moved in, and it is one of the only unoriginal parts of the home. The exterior wood trim and interior built-in cabinetry has been preserved.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>An octagonal dining room and library sit on opposite sides of the home’s first floor.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>She said the home’s buyer would likely be “unique,” as the Wright homes tend to be. Schutte is also overseeing the sales of three other homes designed by the famed architect, who built his first home in Oak Park, in Michigan. Those listings have drawn interest from buyers as far away as Dubai.</p><p>The first showing was scheduled for Monday, though Schutte said she expects interest to pick up, especially locally.</p><p>“Everybody in the community knows about this house,” Schutte said. “But no one has been in it for 50 years, so there’s sort of a mystique about the house.”</p><p>The blueprints for the home have been preserved by the Library of Congress.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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</div></div><p>The Hickox home sits near Wright’s larger B. Harley Bradley House, which was also built in 1900 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was made open to the public for tours in 2010 by the nonprofit Wright in Kankakee organization, according to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. </p><p>It was fully restored in 2005, keeping nearly all of the 90 art glass windows intact, and in 2010, the mortgage was paid off with help from community donors.</p><p>Unlike the Bradley House, the Hickox House has remained privately owned since it was built and has served as a family home for the current owners since they purchased it nearly half a century ago.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The Warren Hickox House in the 680 block of South Harrison Avenue in south suburban Kankakee, was listed Thursday for $779,000. It and the home next door were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1900.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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<p>Schutte said this and the largely original lead-lined windows and cavernous ceilings give the home character.</p><p>“When you walk into this house, you can feel the house has energy,” Schutte said. “There’s a lot of love in that house.”</p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-design/2024/03/18/frank-lloyd-wright-designed-prairie-style-architecture-home-in-kankakee-hits-market-for-nearly-800-000Violet Miller2024-03-18T15:57:50.644-05:002024-03-18T15:57:59.643-05:0013-year-old boy shot, seriously wounded in Grand Crossing
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<p>A 13-year-old boy was seriously injured in a shooting Monday in Grand Crossing on the South Side. </p><p>The boy was standing in an alley in the 7400 block of South Kenwood Avenue when two males approached him and opened fire around 2:20 p.m., Chicago police said. </p><p>He suffered three gunshot wounds and was taken to Comer Children's Hospital in serious condition, police said. </p><p>The assailants fled on foot, police said. </p><p>Area One detectives are investigating. </p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/03/18/13-year-old-boy-shot-seriously-wounded-in-grand-crossing-cpd-guns-gunshots-crime-policeSun-Times Wire2024-03-18T14:11:17.936-05:002024-03-18T17:56:42.43-05:00What you need to know about the 'Bring Chicago Home' referendum
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<p>The "Bring Chicago Home" referendum has <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/03/13/bring-chicago-home-referendum-march-primary-ballot-illinois-supreme-court-appeal-denial" >survived a court challenge</a> and so, for now, votes cast for or against the ballot question will be counted. And despite all the news coverage of the proposal, some voters may still wonder exactly what it is and what it could mean.</p><p>Here are some answers.</p><h3>What it would do</h3><p>Voters are being asked to authorize the Chicago City Council to change the real estate transfer tax. That tax rate is currently 0.75%. The proposed changes would lower the tax rate on property transactions valued at under $1 million, while increasing it on sales of $1 million or more.</p><p><b>Going down:</b> Properties sold for under $1 million that currently account for 94% of all sales will see a decrease in the real estate transaction tax owed. The new tax rate would be 0.60%, down from 0.75% — a 20% cut.</p><p><b>Going up:</b> Sales of $1 million or over, but under $1.5 million, will pay a 2% tax rate on that portion of the sale over $1 million — more than two-and-a-half times what they pay now.</p><p>And the tax rate on sales of $1.5 million and higher will pay 3% on the portion over $1.5 million — four times the current rate.</p><p>If a simple majority of Chicago voters then approve the binding ballot referendum in March, the Council will be asked to approve another ordinance enacting the new tax structure and establishing a special fund dedicated to addressing homelessness.</p><p>Opponents won a brief victory in court last month, when Cook County Circuit Judge Kathleen Burke <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/02/23/bring-chicago-home-referendum-cook-county-judge-ruling-lawsuit" target="_blank" >put the referendum on hold</a>. It was too late to remove it from the ballot, but votes weren't going to be counted.</p><p>However, earlier this month, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled the votes could be counted. </p><bsp-listcarousel class="PageListE" data-module data-column-count=4 data-hide-authors="true" data-hide-categories="true" data-hide-dates="true" data-hide-descriptions="true"
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</bsp-listcarousel><p></p><h3>What critics say</h3><p>The court challenge to the referendum argued that it was improperly combining a request for a tax decrease with a request for a tax increase. It's a tactic known as "log rolling" — combining a popular item with a potentially unpopular one to ease its approval.</p><p>The <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2024/03/13/civic-federation-analysis-bring-chicago-home-referendum-ballot-brandon-johnson-homeless" target="_blank" >Civic Federation has argued</a> the city hasn't explained how exactly it would spend the tax proceeds. It also cited what it said was a lack of “oversight and accountability to ensure that funds will be effectively and efficiently utilized for the intended purpose."</p><p>Another skeptic was Greg Goldner, a veteran political consultant who spearheaded the multi-media campaign to stop Bring Chicago Home through a political action committee, “Keep Chicago Affordable. ”With roughly 68,000 unhoused Chicagoans and an average cost-per-affordable unit of $519,000," Goldner told the Sun-Times, "it would “take them 50 years to build 10,000 units." And that assumes, Goldner added, that the tax increase generates the $100 million City Hall is hoping for, something he considers unlikely.</p><h3>What supporters say</h3><p>The referendum's <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/2/2/24047914/chicago-homeless-fund-real-estate-transfer-tax-increase-referendum-mayor-brandon-johnson" target="_blank" >biggest supporter is Mayor Brandon Johnson</a>. A key campaign promise was creating a dedicated fund to help the estimated 68,000 Chicagoans who are homeless, and he has talked about his own brother dying “addicted and unhoused.”</p><p>One of Johnson's biggest supporters, in turn, is the Chicago Teachers Union — Johnson was once a paid organizer for the CTU, and CTU president Stacy Davis Gates says helping homeless students is “part of what we went on strike for” in 2019.</p><p>“It’s an abomination that, in this city with this much wealth, we have almost 20,000 students attending public schools who are classified as unhoused,” Davis Gates says. If Bring Chicago Home “provides the revenue necessary to get those young people into actual homes with the stability and consistency that provides, then we are all in.</p><p>“If you vote ‘yes’ on this referendum, you are voting for 20,000 unhoused students in the Chicago Public Schools to be in a safe, warm home,” Davis Gates says. “I like our odds.”</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>VLive, a nightclub at 2501 S. Kedzie Ave. in Little Village, was the scene of a shooting of a transgender woman last month. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>Early one mild morning last month, a transgender woman who recently migrated from Venezuela was waiting for a ride outside a Little Village nightclub when a driver pulled up and made an ominous remark in Spanish.</p><p>“Bad gay,” he allegedly said before firing three shots at the woman around 4:30 a.m. on Feb. 4. She was struck in the groin and both legs and left in critical condition, according to Chicago police records. </p><p>She later told investigators that she and her friends had been partying at VLive, 2501 S. Kedzie Ave., a club she described as a meeting ground for new arrivals from Venezuela. A witness also recounted the attack to police, records show.</p><p>Detectives began investigating the shooting as a hate crime and eventually homed in on a suspect — a 29-year-old Venezuelan man who was linked to a drug cartel by federal authorities.</p><p>With the help of a U.S. Marshals fugitive task force, officers took him into custody on Feb. 26 as he left a courthouse in west suburban Maywood.</p><p>He had been arrested two days earlier in Austin and hit with a list of charges, including felonies for illegally possessing a gun and ammunition, court records show. After a judge ordered him released that day, police records show he was quickly arrested again and brought in for questioning.</p><p>While he had been identified as the gunman and police had recovered key evidence — including a shell casing and video of the Ford Explorer used in the attack — Cook County prosecutors wouldn’t bring charges.</p><p>A spokesperson for the state’s attorney’s office said the case has been “continued for additional investigation,” noting that “no charging decision has been made at this time.”</p><p>In a report, police acknowledged the investigation had faced a serious setback: “Our one witness who can positively identify the gunman will not cooperate any further.”</p><p>A law enforcement source said the victim stopped cooperating because she believes she was targeted for being a sex worker and has fears about the suspect’s association with <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/11/10/23953154/venezuelan-migrants-el-tren-de-aragua-gang" target="_blank" >El Tren De Aragua, a violent Venezuelan gang</a> known in South America for human trafficking and drug sales.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Baltazar Enriquez, an organizer in Little Village, said community members have been left with lingering questions after similar cases have seemingly fallen apart. “Do we blame the police department or do we blame the state’s attorney?” Enriquez asked.</p><p>He noted that he and families impacted by violence recently met with officials from the state’s attorney’s office to raise concerns about homicide cases where a suspect was identified but not charged.</p><p>“That has been a problem in our community because the members feel revictimized,” he said. “Because now, they don’t have a family member and the aggressor is out on the streets.”</p><p>He pointed to what he views as a two-tiered system of justice, saying that residents in areas like Little Village “have to do protests and push for answers because [police officials] do not work with us.”</p><p>“When it’s a gangbanger, a migrant, a trans woman or a woman, they do not investigate these cases adequately,” he claimed. </p><h3>Feds release wrong information about arrest</h3><p>On March 3, the suspect in the shooting outside VLive was arrested yet again when police stopped him near a migrant shelter in the Loop, court records show. He was cited for driving without a license and blowing a stop sign, but the case was dropped the following day.</p><p>That same day, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/03/05/migrant-with-alleged-cartel-ties-arrested-in-chicago-shooting-then-released-without-charges" target="_blank" >the U.S. Marshals Service issued a news release</a> that offered an erroneous account of his arrest in the shooting.</p><p>The release named the suspect, provided incorrect details about his arrest and wrongly stated that he had been charged. It also used language uncommon for a news release from a federal agency, describing the suspect as “an illegal migrant from Venezuela and an alleged cartel member.”</p><p>After the Sun-Times raised questions about the release, a spokesperson issued a separate statement on March 11 saying it had “been retracted and the information was removed from our website.”</p><p>“It should not be used for reference or reporting,” spokesperson Brady McCarron added.</p><p>However, multiple news stories referencing the release remain online, including those published by Fox News and other right-wing outlets critical of the country’s current immigration policies.</p><p><i>Contributing: Rosemary Sobol</i></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/03/18/transgender-migrant-shot-little-village-cartel-venezuelan-releasedTom Schuba2024-03-18T12:41:17.264-05:002024-03-18T19:24:55.081-05:00Former Ald. Danny Solis set to testify as feds outline Michael Madigan's corruption trial
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<img class="Image" alt="Former City Council member Danny Solis walks towards a waiting vehicle outside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse after a day of trial in the Ed Burke corruption trial, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. " srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d2414b8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1684+0+158/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F25203393%2FBURKE_121223_3.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a375dc1/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1684+0+158/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F25203393%2FBURKE_121223_3.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Former City Council member Danny Solis walks towards a waiting vehicle outside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse after a day of trial in the Ed Burke corruption trial, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>Former Ald. Danny Solis’ days on the federal witness stand are apparently not over.</p><p>Months after<b> </b>declining to call the notorious FBI mole to testify in the trial of ex-Ald. Edward M. Burke, prosecutors disclosed Monday that they will summon Solis to the stand <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/3/2/22958533/michael-madigan-indicted-charges-illinois-house" target="_blank" >in the trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan</a>, set for October.</p><p>The feds made that disclosure in a detailed 224-page outline of evidence they plan to present at Madigan’s trial. Several familiar faces are expected to make a return appearance following last year’s <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/5/2/23697452/jurors-reach-verdict-in-comed-bribery-trial" target="_blank" >trial of<b> </b>four powerbrokers who schemed to bribe Madigan</a> to benefit ComEd.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>But Solis is now expected to join them. And so is former state Rep. Edward “Eddie” Acevedo, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/3/23/22993195/former-state-rep-eddie-acevedo-sentencing-cheating-income-taxes-tied-madigan-probe" target="_blank" >who was sentenced to six months in prison</a> for cheating on his taxes in a case spun off of the Madigan investigation.</p><p>Madigan is accused of leading a criminal enterprise for nearly a decade designed to enhance his political power and generate income for his allies and associates. The Southwest Side Democrat left office in 2021 and was indicted in March 2022.</p><p>The feds brought charges against Madigan thanks in part to the undercover work of Solis, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/10/30/23914958/daniel-solis-fbi-mole-disgraced-alderman-ed-burke-michael-madigan" target="_blank" >who spent 23 years representing the 25th Ward</a> on the City Council. FBI agents <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/11/28/23979703/ed-burke-chicago-corruption-trial-danny-solis-old-post-office" target="_blank" >confronted him on June 1, 2016</a>, with evidence of his own alleged wrongdoing. Solis quickly agreed to wear a wire against powerful politicians including Madigan and Burke.</p><p>Solis <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/12/23994306/ed-burke-danny-solis-fbi-wire-chicago-corruption" target="_blank" >testified for about three hours</a> during Burke’s trial in December after Burke’s attorneys called him as a witness. The defense then pilloried prosecutors in closing arguments for failing to call Solis to the stand themselves. Jurors responded with a resounding verdict, though, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/21/24006969/ed-burke-verdict-chicago-corruption-bribery-danny-solis" target="_blank" >convicting Burke on 13 of 14 counts</a> including racketeering.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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</div><p>Now, Madigan’s own corruption trial promises to be the most significant at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse since the prosecution of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich more than a decade ago. It’s also the culmination of a <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-corruption-trials" target="_blank" >series of corruption trials in 2023</a>.</p><p>Jurors in the ComEd bribery trial last May convicted Madigan confidant Michael McClain, ex-ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore, former ComEd lobbyist John Hooker and onetime City Club President Jay Doherty of conspiring to bribe Madigan over nearly a decade. McClain is set to face additional allegations alongside Madigan at the trial this fall.</p><p>Madigan's defense attorneys did not respond to a message seeking comment Monday. McClain's attorney declined.</p><p>Both defense teams may now get the opportunity to cross-examine Solis about the allegations that led to his cooperation. A 2016 FBI affidavit first obtained by the Sun-Times alleged that Solis received <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/1/29/18378397/viagra-sex-acts-use-of-a-luxury-farm-feds-detail-investigation-of-ald-solis" target="_blank" >“a steady flow of personal benefits”</a> from people for whom he had taken or offered official action. The benefits allegedly included Viagra, prostitution services, the use of a multi-million dollar farm and campaign contributions.</p><p>Former ComEd executive Fidel Marquez — who also wore a wire for the feds — is expected to testify again <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/3/30/23663522/key-federal-witness-comed-bribery-trial-pays-a-price-defense-grills-his-decision-his-personal-life" target="_blank" >after spending a week on the witness stand</a> in the ComEd bribery trial. Former Cook County Recorder of Deeds <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/4/11/23679171/precinct-captain-paid-hundreds-thousands-dollars-by-comed-political-work-michael-madigan" target="_blank" >Edward Moody is also expected to return</a> to the courtroom.</p><p>Prosecutors <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/3/8/23631457/judge-blocks-chicago-machine-expert-from-testifying-in-trial-of-4-accused-of-madigan-bribes" target="_blank" >will again try to call Dick Simpson</a>, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to testify about the Chicago political machine. They will also make another bid to introduce a recording in which Madigan allegedly quipped that associates of his had <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/4/5/23671418/jurors-in-comed-bribery-trial-wont-hear-madigans-bandits-quip-judge-rules" target="_blank" >“made out like bandits.”</a></p><p>Both were blocked from the ComEd bribery trial.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>But in the case headed to trial this fall, Madigan and McClain are also accused of arranging for <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/10/14/23404193/mike-madigan-att-illinois-fined-sway-springfield-legislation" target="_blank" >$22,500 to be funneled to Acevedo</a> from AT&T Illinois.</p><p>Acevedo is expected to testify that he asked Madigan for help finding consulting or lobbying work after leaving office, and that Madigan told him to talk to McClain. Acevedo then met with McClain at a Starbucks in Chicago and at the Sangamo Club in Springfield, records show.<b> </b></p><p>Acevedo asked Madigan for help again in 2017, and Acevedo wound up being retained by ComEd and AT&T, prosecutors say.</p><p>The feds also pointed Monday to a July 2018 chat between Madigan and McClain about arranging payments for the spouse of an unnamed Illinois representative. Prosecutors said it amounted to evidence of the larger conspiracy.</p><p>Solis is expected to testify about three additional schemes. The first involved allegations that Madigan agreed to accept business for his private tax law firm, Madigan &<b> </b>Getzendanner, steered to him by Solis in exchange for helping Solis land a paid position on a state board.</p><p>When he takes the stand, Solis is expected to tell jurors that, before he began working for the FBI, he would introduce Madigan to developers “in order to garner political support from Madigan. … Solis did this to keep Madigan politically at bay.”</p><p>The state board scheme overlaps with the case against Burke, who used his position on the City Council<b> </b>to try to squeeze business out of the developers renovating Chicago’s Old Post Office between 2016 and 2018.</p><p>In a June 2018 conversation about Solis’ interest in a state board seat, Madigan allegedly mentioned the Post Office developer, as well. Solis told Madigan, “I can bring you him” but also mentioned Burke’s interest. Madigan then spent months pursuing the Post Office developer and others through Solis, according to the feds.</p><p>That lasted until January 2019, when the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/1/23/18369359/solis-secretly-recorded-fellow-ald-burke-to-help-feds-in-criminal-investigation" target="_blank" >Chicago Sun-Times revealed Solis’ undercover work for the FBI</a>. “At that point, no further efforts were made by Madigan to solicit business with Solis’s help,” prosecutors wrote Monday.</p><p>The second scheme Solis is expected to testify about involved alleged efforts by Madigan and McClain <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/3/4/22961871/michael-madigan-chinatown-scheme-political-corruption-illinois-house-speaker-chicago" target="_blank" >to have property in Chinatown transferred</a> from state ownership in exchange for legal work for Madigan & Getzendanner.</p><p>The feds say Solis met with McClain in his City Hall office in the midst of that scheme in December 2017. During their conversation, McClain allegedly made a comment about the Justice Department sending 40 federal prosecutors to Chicago who would “wanna go after white collar crime.”</p><p>McClain allegedly said that some people were “too blatant” and explained common wisdom about not meeting with certain politicians alone.</p><p>“You oughta take somebody with you so that you have somebody to say, ‘No, that's not what was said,’” McClain allegedly told Solis, who by then had been working undercover for the FBI for more than a year.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Finally, Solis is expected to testify about an alleged attempt by Madigan to extort money for his law firm from the developer of an apartment project. The feds say Madigan and Solis spoke by phone in June 2017<b> </b>about the developer. Solis, who chaired the City Council’s Zoning Committee, said the developers still had issues in front of him.</p><p>Solis also said he’d be setting up a meeting between the developer and Madigan.</p><p>“I think they understand how this works, you know, the quid pro quo, the quid pro quo,” Solis said. Madigan allegedly replied, “OK.”</p><p>“So I just wanted to let you know that I did that and I’ll follow up with you after Thursday,” Solis added. Madigan allegedly replied, “Very good.”</p><p>The feds say the call shows Madigan understood he was exploiting the circumstances in order to land business for himself.</p><p>“This call is devastating evidence that Madigan intended to personally benefit himself,” they wrote.</p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/michael-madigan/2024/03/18/danny-solis-set-to-testify-in-michael-madigans-trial-feds-sayJon Seidel