Chicago is Pulitzer caliber
For the second straight year, a play originating in Chicago has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. This year’s winner is Lynn Nottage’s “Ruined, ” her play set in an African brothel. In an interview with the Tribune on Monday, Nottage described herself as “jubilant” over the honor. “I don’t write a play expecting to get produced,” she said, “let alone win a Pulitzer Prize.”
Girl’s killers sentenced
The two men convicted of killing a 13-year-old girl caught in the middle of a 2007 gang fight were sentenced Monday, leaving the child’s mother in tears and inconsolable. Calling their behavior “cowardly” and “inexplicable,” Cook County Judge Nicholas Ford sentenced Tony Serrano, 20, to 85 years in prison and Mwenda Murithi, 27, to 55 years for the murder of Schanna Gayden, according to a release from the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
High-rise death accidental
Chicago police Monday said detectives have concluded their investigation into the death of a 29-year-old woman who fell from a Loop high-rise apartment building early Saturday and have determined there was no criminal activity involved in the incident. Brittney Stafford, who grew up in Indiana but whose last known address was in Lakeview, fell from a building in the 100 block of West Lake Street around5 a.m. Saturday, authorities and family members said.
