Mary Norkol
Wire Desk Reporter at Chicago Sun-Times
reporter @suntimes. formerly @thesunnews @report4america. forever @phoenixluc. she/her. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mary Norkol
Colette Slowe used to describe herself as a happy-go-lucky person. Now she’s “miserable,” waiting every day for news of her daughter, Taylor Casey, a Black trans woman who disappeared while on a yoga retreat in the Bahamas last June. With no updates in six months, Slowe now fears her daughter was killed in a hate crime. “I don’t believe she just passed, you know, passing is something you do in your sleep,” Slowe told the Chicago Sun-Times.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mary Norkol
Commuters in and around Chicago will now have the chance to purchase one day pass that gives them access to the CTA, Metra and Pace lines, the transportation networks announced Friday. The regional day pass is available in the Ventra app and will give riders unlimited rides on all three networks, including CTA buses and trains. All three transit agencies worked with the Regional Transportation Authority to launch the program, according to the announcement.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mary Norkol
An immigrant 12-year-old boy and his mother from Nicaragua visited pastor Julie Contreras at church two weeks ago. “Save my mother,” the boy said, crying and clutching her legs, Contreras told the Chicago Sun-Times. His mother had received a text reminding her of an upcoming court hearing. Amid the detainments and deportations of immigrants across the country under the Trump administration, she didn’t know whether she should go but decided to, Contreras said.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mary Norkol
Severe thunderstorms are possible across much of the Chicago area Wednesday, with the potential for hail, tornadoes and flooding, according to the National Weather Service. Showers hit the area Wednesday morning and storms are more likely to roll through Wednesday afternoon, the weather service said. An elevated flooding risk, possible winds up to 70 miles per hour, quarter-size hail and tornadoes are all possible, though not necessarily likely.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mary Norkol
Body camera footage that shows Caitlin Tracey telling police she was abused by her husband months before she was found dead at his South Loop condo building can be played at his looming trial in Michigan, a judge ruled Tuesday. Adam Beckerink, 46, hasn’t been charged in Tracey’s death, which remains under investigation by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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