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Jussie Smollett sentencing hearing opens with lawyers seeking to have judge toss conviction for phony hate crime

CHICAGO — For the first time since his media-firestorm trial and conviction last year, Jussie Smollett returned to Cook County court Thursday to learn his sentence for orchestrating a fake hate-crime attack that shocked the nation.

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Jussie Smollett returns to court in Chicago for sentencing after conviction for phony hate crime

CHICAGO — For the first time since his media-firestorm trial and conviction last year, Jussie Smollett is expected to return to Cook County court Thursday to learn his sentence for orchestrating a fake hate-crime attack that shocked the nation.

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Spring trout season: Opens April 2, early catch-and-release opens March 19 at nine statewide sites

Illinois’ spring trout season opens on April 2; the early catch-and-release season opens March 19 at nine statewide sites.

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Man dies days after Woodlawn shooting

Paul Slaughter, 34, died Tuesday afternoon at the University of Chicago Medical Center, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

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Illinois' Cook County launches program touted as one of the largest guaranteed income pilots in nation

CHICAGO — Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has announced a $42 million guaranteed income pilot for suburban county residents, which she said will be one plank of an ambitious multiyear plan to tackle racial and economic inequities using federal COVID-19 stimulus funds.

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Evolent Health 'Notification Award' Removes $82M Overhang, Notes Piper Sandler

In an SEC filing, Cook County named Evolent Health Inc (NYSE:EVH) the sole third-party administrator for CountyCare Health Plan from fiscal 2023 through fiscal 2025. Piper Sandler analyst Jessica Tassan notes that the award extends a contract Evolent has held since fiscal 2018 to provide administrative simplification services to support CountyCare's 425,000 Medicaid…

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Kim Foxx defends reforms, calls for focus on data amid Cook County’s surge in violent crime

The Cook County state’s attorney also said she will have much to say about Jussie Smollett after the actor is sentenced on Thursday.

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12-year-old girl dies after being shot while celebrating birthday with family

The girl was pronounced dead late Friday morning at Comer Children’s Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

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Preckwinkle announces guaranteed income pilot for suburban Cook County residents

The program will be funded by $42 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds. Chicago is implementing a similar program with $31.5 million in funding.

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Man charged with fatally shooting cousin last year in Austin

Cook County Judge Maryam Ahmad ordered Marquis Dixon held without bail Tuesday on a charge of first-degree murder in the May 22, 2021 shooting of Jerry Thornton.

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Man, 65, dies after beating in Bronzeville

Lucullus Lee Jr. died Sunday at the University of Chicago Medical Center, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

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Judge allows cameras in court for Jussie Smollett’s expected sentencing next month

CHICAGO — The alleged hoax attack on actor Jussie Smollett may not have been caught on camera, but his upcoming sentencing in a Cook County courtroom will be.

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Chicago woman sues former Avondale landlord after he allegedly fails to return security deposit

In a lawsuit in Cook County, Sandra Diaz alleges her landlord wrongfully pushed her out of her Avondale apartment during the coronavirus pandemic and refused to return her security deposit.

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No bail for man accused of fatally shooting 27-year-old woman who had ‘ongoing dispute’ with girlfriend

An "ongoing dispute" between neighbors turned deadly late last year after a man fatally shot a woman in the South Shore apartment complex’s stairwell, Cook County prosecutors said.

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House Speaker Chris Welch aiming to get a relative elected, as his predecessor Michael Madigan did

And ShawnTe Raines-Welch isn’t the only clout candidate running in the suburban judicial district, which also includes relatives of lobbyist Al Ronan and Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough.

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Jury finds man claiming amnesia was fit to stand trial in 2015 for Chicago police officer’s slaying

CHICAGO — After a four-day trial centered largely on Marcus Floyd’s claims that he could not remember the night Officer Thomas Wortham was killed, a Cook County jury found Thursday that he was, in fact, fit to stand trial for the slaying in 2015.

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After a day in the 50s, Chicago area expected to be hit with winter storm of sleet, freezing rain and up to 7 inches of snow

A winter storm warning has been issued from 3 a.m. until 9 p.m. Thursday for southern Cook County as well as Grundy, Kankakee, Kendall, La Salle, Livingston and Will counties in Illinois and Lake and Porter counties in Indiana.

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In wake of Jason Van Dyke case, Kim Foxx's pledge to seek more special prosecutors has not come to pass

CHICAGO — Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx was elected in 2016 as a reform candidate, knocking out incumbent Anita Alvarez after harshly criticizing the way she handled charges in 17-year-old Laquan McDonald’s fatal shooting by on-duty Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke.

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Under Fritz Kaegi, Cook County’s property tax system is undeniably more fair

Kaegi took steps on behalf of struggling homeowners and small businesses who had previously suffered under well-documented unfairness, inequities, inaccuracy and unethical behavior during the Joe Berrios administration.

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Trump toilet talk evokes memories of the secretary who erased some of the Watergate tapes

SNEED: Rose Mary Woods’ brother was a Cook County politician who used to regale reporters with stories from the White House when his sister became an asterisk of Watergate history.

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Dan Ryan shooting upstages governor’s news conference on state’s efforts to make Chicago expressways safer

As he and the state police director spoke, a person was shot on the Dan Ryan Expressway near downtown, the 14th person shot on an expressway in Cook County this year.

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Girl, 17, and infant daughter missing from Palatine

Sharon Tellez-Perez, 17, and her daughter were last seen at Tellez-Perez’ residence in the 4200 block of Bonhill Drive around 1 p.m. Saturday when she told relatives she was leaving to go to laundry.

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Bumble disaster: Man who met teacher on dating app must pay Arlington Heights woman $160K over dogs’ torture, killings

Sarah Manos sued Mathew Berry, accusing him of being verbally abusive and killing her dogs Daisy and Kirby. A Cook County judge has ruled in her favor, awarding damages.

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Guard fired 20 shots while lying on ground— killing grandma 4 blocks away, prosecutors say

Victor Brown fired at a man who had shot him, although that man was already at least a block away at the time, Cook County prosecutors said in charging Brown with murder Friday. One of the bullets killed Bobbye Johnson as she walked in the 200 block of East 35th…

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Lake effect snow could add up to 4 inches of snow in Chicago area, day after winter storm buried some places with more than a foot

Cook County was under a winter weather advisory until 6 p.m. The National Weather Service said accumulations of 1 to 4 inches was possible, especially in the northwestern part of the county.

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