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Sheridan Gorman spent the early morning hours on Thursday with friends, watching the skyline on the Loyola Beach Pier, prosecutors said, when she noticed someone hiding.
As the group started to run away, Jose Medina, 25, fired a gun, prosecutors alleged yesterday, hitting the 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student in the back while her friends took cover in a grassy area of the beach.
Though a full detention hearing was postponed because Medina is hospitalized with tuberculosis, Cook County prosecutors gave a brief account of the shooting that plunged the Rogers Park university into mourning and generated international headlines when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it had lodged a detainer request asking Illinois officials not to release Medina, who is a Venezuelan national.
Read the full story from the Tribune’s Madeline Buckley, Jeremy Gorner and Sam Charles.
Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day, including: a look inside NBC Chicago’s new $70 million TV newsroom, how to help unpaid TSA workers at O’Hare and Midway and what emerged triumphant at last night’s 52nd anniversary Non-Equity Jeff Awards.
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US Supreme Court weighs post-Election Day ballot counting in case that could affect Illinois and other states
Questioning by U.S. Supreme Court justices fell along partisan and ideological lines during oral arguments in a case that could upend mail voting practices in Illinois and more than two dozen other states over whether ballots cast by Election Day can be counted afterward.
Judge detains man accused of setting mattress on fire that led to Chicago firefighter’s death
The man accused of starting a fire that led to a Chicago firefighter’s death told residents at the Rogers Park apartment building they were “going to pay” after they wouldn’t let him speak to his former roommate, Cook County prosecutors alleged yesterday.
NBC Chicago downsizes in its namesake tower with new $70 million TV newsroom
While WGN-Ch. 9 made news last month by slashing its on-air staff, rival WMAQ-Ch. 5 has executed a different kind of downsizing with a $70 million reimagining of the local TV newsroom.
How to help unpaid TSA workers at O’Hare, Midway airports amid partial shutdown
With millions of Americans traveling for spring break vacations in the coming weeks, Transportation Security Administration workers at O’Hare and Midway airports have gone without full paychecks for the last month as the latest partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security lags on.
Federal ethics rules make it difficult for federal employees to receive help directly. For those wanting to help, it’s not as simple as going to the airport and giving cash or gift cards directly to TSA officers.
Flight attendant thrown from Air Canada plane survives in a ‘total miracle’
A flight attendant still strapped in her seat survived being thrown from an Air Canada plane that collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, her daughter said.
It’s a “total miracle,” Sarah Lepine told Canadian news station TVA Nouvelles.
Chicago Cubs roster news: Seiya Suzuki starts season on IL — and Ben Brown will be used out of bullpen
Seiya Suzuki’s PCL sprain in his right knee will force the Cubs right fielder to begin the season on the injured list.
Suzuki already had been ruled out for opening day on Thursday at Wrigley Field and was trending toward going on the 10-day IL.
Spring training takeaways for Chicago White Sox, including Munetaka Murakami’s ‘adjustability’
The Sox fell 10-9 to the Athletics in the Cactus League finale yesterday at Hohokam Stadium. Designated hitter Lenyn Sosa had a three-run double in the first inning and drove in one more with a single in the sixth during the loss. The Sox finished 15-16-1 this spring.
The next destination is Milwaukee, where the Sox open the season Thursday against the Brewers.
Costco hot dog joins the social media CEO taste-test trend
Costco’s CEO and the warehouse club chain’s beloved hot dog have entered the ring of fast food leaders sampling their brands’ chow on camera as part of a viral social media trend.
The trend was kicked off — perhaps unknowingly — by McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski, whose lackluster nibble of the new Big Arch burger was widely teased by the internet last month. Since then, other chains like Burger King and Dick’s Drive-In have put their own head honchos to the test.
Restaurant review: Creepies, a French inspired bistro with marvelous Midwestern basement vibes in Chicago
Creepies shows what marvelous things can happen when curious and creative kids go into the basement rec room to watch Julia Child’s “The French Chef” on PBS with their friends, writes Louisa Kung Liu Chu.
‘Angels in America’ and ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ are big winners at the 2026 Non-Equity Jeff Awards
Three non-Equity theater productions emerged triumphant at last night’s 52nd anniversary Non-Equity Jeff Awards: “Angels in America” and “The House That Will Not Stand” from Invictus Theatre, and “Jekyll & Hyde” by Kokandy Productions
