Sophie Sherry
General Assignment Reporter
Individual members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. — whose headquarters are in Chicago — have begun mobilizing in masses to support their “soror” in the historic race for president.
Chicago chefs Will Carter and Alvin Green faced off Wednesday in the Cook County Sheriff’s Garden Chef Challenge. Each was given an hour to create a dish using ingredients grown at the farm.
The National Weather Service confirmed that 11 tornadoes touched down Monday night and six on Sunday. Interstate 55 remains closed in both directions near Channahon after power lines fell on the highway.
‘Maybe America will come to some awaking that nobody is safe while we allow assault weapons and while we continue to have no common-sense gun laws in this country,’ the Rev. Michael Pfleger told the Sun-Times.
Most Illinois delegates — whether elected or appointed — continue to back the nominations of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for a second term.
La mayoría de los oficiales de policía no hacen un seguimiento de los homicidios de personas transexuales, pero los investigadores han registrado más de 300 asesinatos de transexuales en todo el país entre 2010 y 2021. El índice nacional de la resolución de casos supera ligeramente el 50%, pero la Policía de Chicago sólo ha resuelto el 14%, según los investigadores.
El alcalde Johnson, que pidió ayuda a los servicios federales, dijo que los autores de los tiroteos tomaron “la decisión de matar a mujeres, la decisión de matar a niños, la decisión de matar a ancianos. Y estoy aquí para decir rotundamente que ya es suficiente”.
Most law enforcement agencies don’t track transgender homicides, but researchers have recorded more than 300 transgender people murdered nationwide between 2010 and 2021. The national clearance rate is just over 50%, but Chicago police have cleared only 14%, researchers found.
Johnson, who called on the feds to help, said those who did the shootings made “a choice to kill women, a choice to kill children, a choice to kill the elderly. And I’m here to say emphatically that we have had enough.”