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A Markham resident was charged Monday after one person died and four others were wounded in a shooting in Chicago Heights early Saturday. Lavaris Yarbrough, 30, faces two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated battery with a firearm, two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm, and one count of aggravated unlawful restraint, according to Cook County circuit court filings. His next hearing is at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Markham courthouse. Chicago Heights police said in a news release they found three people with gunshot wounds and another with face injuries on the 400 block of…
NEW YORK — Anna Wintour ended weeks of fashion-world speculation Tuesday when she named Chloe Malle her successor as head of editorial content at Vogue — but the most powerful person in the business isn’t going anywhere. Wintour, 75, remains chief content officer for Condé Nast and global editorial director of American Vogue and its 28 other editions around the globe. Malle may be stepping into Wintour’s low-heeled slingbacks, but she’ll report to the original wearer while taking over day-to-day operations at the U.S. edition. And gone is the storied “editor-in-chief” title that Wintour held for nearly 40 years. Malle,…
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press. The military will begin sending groups of 150 attorneys — both military and civilians — to the Justice Department “as soon as practicable” and the military services should have the first round of people identified by next week, according to the memo, dated Aug. 27. The effort comes as the Trump administration cracks down on immigration across the country, ramping up arrests and deportations. Immigration courts also already are…
Carlos Santana has fond memories of Wrigley Field. In 2016, he was a 28-year-old starting first baseman for Cleveland, which faced the Chicago Cubs in that historic World Series. The Cubs won in seven games, but Santana said he was happy to play in the championship. He is now 39 years old and still without a World Series ring. The Cubs signed the switch-hitter to a major-league contract Monday as teams were allowed to expand their rosters to 28 players. “There are a lot of memories,” Santana said. “In 2016, it was one of my dreams to win a championship.…
With Broadway tours in town mostly consisting of reprise engagements of age-old blockbusters — “The Lion King,” “The Book of Mormon,” “Phantom of the Opera” — and some of the suburban theaters repeating each other’s programming, the theater spotlight this fall shines on Chicago’s venerable nonprofit theaters. As compared with the last few fiscally challenged years, we’re finally seeing more shows with larger casts, more complex storytelling and greater ambitions. Two Chicago theaters, Northlight Theatre and TimeLine, are looking forward to new buildings coming soon. That’s just as well, since two venerable performance venues, the Briar Street Theatre and Stage…
Darren Bailey cheered when President Donald Trump announced he was mulling deploying the National Guard to Chicago. He hardly stopped there. “If Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker try to block the National Guard from coming into Chicago, they should be held in contempt and jailed,” he wrote on Facebook. “Enough is enough — families deserve safety, not political games. It’s time to restore Chicago to greatness.” We ask you, readers, are these the words of an electable gubernatorial candidate here in Illinois? We say no. This kind of bombastic rhetoric is one of the reasons why we couldn’t endorse Bailey…
The door to Feld hides in its nook on Chicago Avenue. You could miss it in a blink. For Caroline Schrope, however, it’s the center of her Chicago. On a Thursday in June, at around 11:30 a.m., Schrope, 28, her curly brown hair in pigtails, looped a black apron over her head and wrote 13 things on her prep list. By noon, she had crossed out the first three. Schrope sliced Benton’s 14-month smoked ham into small cubes at her station at Feld, Jake Potashnick’s year-old tasting menu restaurant in Ukrainian Village. At Le Bouchon’s grill station on a Monday at…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will direct federal law enforcement intervention to combat crime in Chicago and Baltimore, despite staunch opposition from state and local officials in both cities. Asked by reporters in the Oval Office about sending National Guard troops to Chicago, Trump said, “We’re going in,” but added, “I didn’t say when.” “I have an obligation,” the president said. ”This isn’t a political thing.” Trump has already sent National Guard troops into Washington, D.C., and federalized the police force in the nation’s capital. More recently, he has said he plans similar moves in other cities, particularly…
The Printers Row Lit Fest, which takes place on Saturday and Sunday, is 40 years old this season, and I am, ahem, a few years beyond that momentous birthday and have been part of every one of those years, when the stretch of South Dearborn Street from Congress Parkway (since July 2018, Ida B. Wells Drive) south to Polk St. becomes for two days a delightful orgy of all things literary. It was founded by Bette Cerf Hill in 1985 as a means to, as she once told me, “bring books out in the sunshine,” but also to bring people…
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would send members of the National Guard into Chicago over the city’s crime problem, but he did not specify a date, as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations are expected to be ramped up in next few days. “Well, we’re going in. I didn’t say when we’re going in,” Trump said of the National Guard in speaking to reporters in the Oval Office at an unrelated news conference. “Look, I have an obligation. This isn’t a political thing. I have an obligation when we lose, when 20 people are killed over the last two…