Good afternoon! WBEZ’s Prisoncast! will air a Father’s Day particular at 2 p.m. Sunday. Tune into 91.5 FM or WBEZ.org. Right here’s what else you’ll want to know right now.
1. What we learn about Chicago’s ‘No Kings’ protests
Advocacy organizations Indivisible Chicago and ACLU of Illinois are planning a mass “No Kings Day of Defiance” protest at midday tomorrow to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests and President Donald Trump’s mass deportation marketing campaign.
The Chicago protest shall be one in all many to launch in additional than 1,000 cities throughout the nation, following days of demonstrations led by immigrant rights activists and because the Trump administration ramps up the variety of arrests immigration officers should make every day.
Tomorrow’s rallies are supposed to counter the army parade President Donald Trump has deliberate to mark the U.S. Military’s 250th birthday, which occurs to land on his 79th birthday, my colleague Violet Miller experiences for the Chicago Solar-Instances.
Mayor Brandon Johnson mentioned he has been talking with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and different native officers to anticipate the deployment of federal troops to the town. He advised Reset’s Sasha-Ann Simons yesterday that Trump’s transfer to federalize California’s Nationwide Guard was “eroding and circumventing the Structure.”
Johnson urged these taking to the streets to stay peaceable, including that the rest will “provoke the federal authorities to do what they’ve been doing.”
A number of shall be held throughout the town — together with a senior occasion and an earlier “family-friendly” occasion — along with the principle rally downtown and suburban rallies in Highland Park, Mount Prospect, Elgin, Bartlett, Geneva, Oak Park, Lisle and Orland Park, amongst others. [Chicago Sun-Times]
2. Michael Madigan is predicted to be sentenced this afternoon
Former Illinois Home Speaker Michael J. Madigan, the nation’s longest-serving state Home chief, is ready to be taught Friday whether or not he shall be sentenced to federal jail time for corruption.
The listening to earlier than U.S. District Choose John Blakey on the Dirksen Federal Courthouse is the fruits of an aggressive FBI investigation that dates again greater than a decade and ended the careers of political powerhouses like Madigan and ex-Chicago Ald. Edward M. Burke.
In February, a jury convicted Madigan of bribery conspiracy, wire fraud and different crimes.
Blakey can have plenty of choices when he sentences Madigan. Federal prosecutors have requested him to condemn Madigan to 12.5 years. Madigan’s attorneys have requested for probation. Blakey is extra more likely to come down someplace within the center. [Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ]
At a court docket listening to, Snelling criticized a plan to permit the Chicago Police Division to concern 30-minute curfews although he defended the ordinance in a Solar-Instances interview final week, my colleague Mariah Woelfel experiences for WBEZ.
He mentioned the controversial instrument is “not one thing that I requested for or that I would like.”
Snelling’s feedback, reported in a court docket transcript, characterize the highest cop’s bluntest evaluation of the ordinance being pitched by some council members as an answer to violent teen takeovers.
The Metropolis Council is predicted to vote on the proposal subsequent week. [WBEZ]
The center schooler confronted years of bullying as educators didn’t suppress it, my colleagues Nader Issa and Sarah Karp report.
CPS acknowledged colleges had been struggling to fight racist bullying and different discrimination 4 years in the past by tasking its Workplace of Scholar Protections with dealing with these complaints. However even because the workplace has grown its employees, it has lacked the capability to deal with skyrocketing experiences.
CPS mentioned the Workplace of Scholar Protections helps college directors as they oversee their very own investigations; it takes on instances from colleges primarily based on a number of components, akin to whether or not they’re extreme, repeated or advanced. [Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ]
5. Curler skating fans are turning an previous TJ Maxx right into a South Loop ‘skate rave’
Dozens of Chicago skaters come collectively to socialize, be taught and groove on the raves, which happen within the empty former center of the shop, WBEZ contributor Anita Li experiences.
Chicago Skate Social organizers mentioned they’re attempting to rebuild an city skating neighborhood after the closure of some metropolis rinks.
“[The skate rave] permits plenty of entry for individuals who wouldn’t usually enterprise out to the curler rinks due to limitations with not having a car,” mentioned co-founder Cortney Blake, who modified her final identify to maintain her authorities day job separate from the skating occasions she places on. “This additionally actually boosted a brand new curiosity from different individuals who wouldn’t have in any other case seemed into it.”
The subsequent occasion is June 19; tickets can be found through Eventbrite. [WBEZ]
Right here’s what else is going on
- Relations of Des Plaines residents had been among the many victims of yesterday’s Air India crash. [Chicago Sun-Times]
- Iran launched retaliatory strikes into Israel in response to a significant Israeli assault on Iranian nuclear websites. [NPR]
- R. Kelly was moved to solitary confinement and received’t eat for worry of poison, his legal professionals say. [Chicago Sun-Times]
- Although a Houston chef received, Chicago delivered culinary showmanship within the Prime Chef finale. [WBEZ]
Oh, and yet another factor …
Amy Morton, a two-time Tony-nominated actress, joined Steppenwolf’s ensemble in 1997 and is likely one of the actors most related to each its gritty model of American theater and ensemble mannequin, WBEZ theater reporter Mike Davis writes.
Throughout her profession, Morton has moved fluently between TV and theater, although today, she’s possible extra recognizable for her yearslong stint on tv as Sgt. Trudy Platt on NBC’s Chicago P.D.
However the Oak Park native is making her manner again to Steppenwolf — her creative residence, as she calls it — for the primary time in eight years. She’s doing so partially to work with Audrey Francis, her former pupil, whom she’s recognized for greater than 20 years. It neatly illustrates how Steppenwolf, which was acknowledged with two Tonys on theater’s largest stage this month, stays a spot the place generations of top-tier theater expertise typically share the identical stage. [WBEZ]
Inform me one thing good …
What’s a second the place you actually admired your dad?
Susan writes:
“My Dad and I had been driving on the Belt Parkway in New York. Somebody threw a brick off the overpass and hit our entrance windshield. The sound was deafening and the windshield cracked. I assumed we’d been shot. I used to be a wreck however my Dad calmly drove to the subsequent exit, discovered a police station and reported it. 40+ years later, I’m nonetheless in awe of how he stayed so cool beneath strain. I miss him. Glad Father’s Day, Dad!”
And Pamela writes:
“My dad was by no means the identical after World Conflict II. He typically struggled with holding a job. Thus he was residence rather a lot throughout my teenage years. Someday I used to be upstairs in my bed room, attempting to open a window, which was caught, when my hand went by the glass, shattering it. All of the sudden I noticed drops of blood on the ground. I spotted I had severed my artery and I began screaming for my dad. He instantly took cost, making use of a tourniquet to my arm. I knew that should you didn’t apply a tourniquet appropriately, you might lower the blood provide off. However despite having no medical coaching, my dad had it beneath management. It was simply one of many many issues that he knew easy methods to do which I used to be all the time in awe of. Dad saved my life that day. I used to be so grateful he was residence, and there after I wanted him.”
Anneliese writes:
“After I was little, my dad would grill rooster and slather on some barbecue sauce over the summer time. We had memorable household meals collectively across the dinner desk. He has since handed on of most cancers and at any time when I grill rooster and slather on some barbecue sauce, I all the time consider him. Glad Father’s Day dad! ❤️”
Thanks for all of the responses this week! It was nice listening to from everybody.
