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involving at least nine sheriff’s employees, including one high-ranking official, sources have told the Tribune.
Stars and stripes decorate the overpass on Madison Street over the Kennedy Expressway on March 31, 2022, in Chicago. The overpass is one of the last remaining relics of the 1996 Democratic National Convention.Touting the city’s bona fides, Chicago politicians and business leaders on Thursday said the city was prepared to host the Democratic National Convention in 2024 and that the major national event would provide a much-needed spark to Chicago’s pandemic-ravaged hospitality industries.
Typically, the Transgender Day of Visibility is a time to celebrate, but speakers at a rally in the Loop on Thursday said that 2022 wasn’t typical.earlier this month: Evanston LGBTQ activist Elise Malary, whose body was found in Lake Michigan on March 17, and Chicagoan Tatiana “Tee Tee” Whetstone, 33, who was found dead in a garbage bin March 18.
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