Kaitlin Washburn
General Assignment Reporter at Chicago Sun-Times
Reporter @suntimes • [email protected]
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4 days ago |
audacy.com | Kaitlin Washburn
Antonio McDowell walked into a Chicago police station in 1997 the victim of shooting. He instead ended up charged and convicted of murder. On Monday, 28 years later, he was finally free again. "This is a defining moment," McDowell, 49, told reporters at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse. "It proves that justice is not lost, that justice will return.
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4 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Kaitlin Washburn
Antonio McDowell walked into a Chicago police station in 1997 the victim of shooting. He instead ended up charged and convicted of murder. On Monday, 28 years later, he was finally free again. “This is a defining moment,” McDowell, 49, told reporters at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse. “It proves that justice is not lost, that justice will return.
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2 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Kaitlin Washburn
A group representing survivors of clergy abuse alleges Pope Leo XIV has a poor track record handling allegations of sexual assault committed by priests and clerics. That includes when he ran the Midwest Augustinian Province over two decades ago, when he was a bishop in Peru and most recently as the Dicastery for Bishops at the Vatican.
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2 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Robert Herguth |Kaitlin Washburn
A defrocked priest from the suburbs says the future Pope Leo XIV signed off on his move in 2000 to a Hyde Park monastery near a Catholic school after the priest had been accused of molesting children. Robert Prevost, now newly installed as Pope Leo XIV, was the head of the Midwest province of the Catholic church’s Augustinian religious order at the time. “He’s the one who gave me permission to stay there,” James M. Ray, the former priest, told the Chicago Sun-Times.
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3 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Kaitlin Washburn
Ald. David Moore (17th) threw his support behind the city’s chief operating officer John Roberson to run the Chicago Transit Authority during a contentious public comment at the agency’s board meeting on Wednesday. Moore accused the board of “moving the goal post” on the search process and outlined why Roberson, who once served as the alderman’s chief of staff, is the man for the job. “Do not assume power that you do not have. Work with the mayor that put you here,” Moore said to board members.
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