Author: Living Legends
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 1, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) High temperature: 83 degrees (2010) Low temperature: 17 degrees (1881) Precipitation: 1.58 inches (1967) Snowfall: 8.2 inches (1970) The Chicago Tribune published illustrations making it look like dinosaurs had invaded the city on April 1, 1906. (Chicago Tribune) 1906: In a 7,000-word story, the Tribune claimed “dinosauria” took over the city. Al Capone’s home at 7244 S. Prairie Ave. on April 4, 1924,…
The federal government is pulling back $125 million in funding from the Illinois Department of Public Health and 97 local health departments for activities related to COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, the state health department said Wednesday. In all, the federal government is slashing $11.4 billion in federal funding across the country for state and local health departments and other health organizations for COVID-19-related activities. The move is the latest by the administration of President Donald Trump to cut costs across the federal government. “The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding…
MADISON, Wis. — Majority control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will be decided Tuesday in a race that broke records for spending and has become a proxy battle for the nation’s political fights, pitting a candidate backed by President Donald Trump against a Democratic-aligned challenger. Republicans including Trump and the world’s wealthiest person, Elon Musk, lined up behind Brad Schimel, a former state attorney general. Democrats like former President Barack Obama and billionaire megadonor George Soros backed Susan Crawford, a Dane County judge who led legal fights to protect union power and abortion rights and to oppose voter ID. The…
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For Chicago Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner, an Oakland native, Monday was a bittersweet day. The Cubs are part of the first major-league series played at Sutter Heath Park, a Triple-A stadium the Athletics are calling home for at least the next three seasons as they await their permanent new park to be built in Las Vegas. They departed Oakland after 57 seasons in the Coliseum. “I mean, I’d rather be playing in Oakland — Oakland is a special place for me,” said Hoerner, who grew up an A’s fan. “I’m really grateful I got to…
Remember All Lives Matter? It began as a rejoinder, invented to strip power from the Black Lives Matter rally cry born after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager killed on his walk home from a convenience store. As a phrase, Black Lives Matter was almost immediately twisted by critics to imply things it didn’t imply — that Black lives matter more than other lives, for starters. The twisting was convenient, because it steered the public discourse away from what Black Lives Matter invited the nation to reckon with, which was the continual…
Clarendon Hills is planning its first Restaurant Week, which will feature 11 of the village’s eateries from April 23 to May 4. The promotion is sponsored by the Clarendon Hills Chamber of Commerce, which came up with the idea during planning of 2025 social events for Chamber members by the organization’s Networking Committee. “During brainstorming, the idea of Clarendon Hill Restaurant Week emerged as a way to showcase local restaurants and attract more visitors to enjoy the town’s dining and shopping experiences, and see what our town has to offer,” said Meredith Lannert, a Chamber of Commerce board member. “In…
The USAID employee traveled to Chicago from Washington, D.C., for the job fair. Like almost all the employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development dismantled by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, he is on paid administrative leave. “I don’t think there’s any way my job’s coming back,” the federal worker said in the bustling conference room at Malcolm X College in Chicago on Thursday. A federal judge ruled this week that DOGE’s dismantling of the international development agency was likely unconstitutional and said the employees on leave should get their email access reinstated, but appeared to stop…
I sat one morning reading the op-ed “I worked for USAID for 16 years. I saw the profound difference it made.” (March 25). Author Gavi Rosenthal identifies the cruelty in canceling our nation’s collective efforts to treat the people of the world to our true benevolence. Whether it has been to feed the starving, house the homeless, cure the sick or simply console the bereaved. Those are the exact qualities I’d like to think we subscribe to and want our government to facilitate on our behalf across the earth each and every day. No, they do not make us wealthier,…
Controversies over a flood basin at Heather Hills Elementary School and the firing of a former police chief are among the reasons Flossmoor Mayor Michelle Nelson faces a challenge in Tuesday’s election. Village Trustee Joni Bradley-Scott, a real estate agent, said as mayor she would be more inclusive and transparent than Nelson, who was first elected in 2021. “Flossmoor is at a political juncture,” Bradley-Scott said Wednesday. “We can do things as they’ve always been done, or we can make new inroads. And that is asking the community what they want — in terms of businesses, in terms of events,…
Law Enforcement Officers Under Fire in Active Standoff on Gray Manor Terrace in Dundalk, MD: Suspect Armed with Rifle Engages Police in Armed Confrontation DUNDALK, MD – April 1, 2025 – A tense and dangerous standoff is unfolding in the 2500 block of Gray Manor Terrace in Dundalk, Maryland, after a suspect, identified as an armed individual, began firing a high-powered rifle at law enforcement officers responding to a domestic disturbance call. The officers, some of whom have already sustained injuries, engaged in a firefight with the assailant, who remains holed up inside a residence. At the time of the…