Mark Flessner News Today

It’s time once again to dive in to another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about over the past week

The Chicago Board of Ethics is expected to address allegations that city Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin abused her office and violated the state’s whistleblower act following the recent release of a 2020 letter that laid out a series of accusations from two former top aides Conyears-Ervin fired. The Chicago Tribune first reported earlier this week the details of the letter, written by the ...

The City Council is poised to take up a $25 million settlement proposal in a controversial police misconduct case involving two men whose murder convictions were overturned in the slaying of a college basketball standout in Chicago 30 years ago. Tyrone Hood and Wayne Washington sued the city separately in 2016, alleging police, including then-Detectives Kenneth Boudreau and John Halloran, ...

Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson “is committed to making sure that the trauma that I endured ... never happens to another person,” said Anjanette Young, whose home was raided by Chicago police in 2019.

Social worker Anjanette Young, who was forced to stand naked while an all-male team of police officers mistakenly raided her home — the wrong home — on Tuesday endorsed mayoral challenger Brandon Johnson.

Within months after Mayor Lori Lightfoot took office, the police twice raided a two-flat owned by Burnett and his wife Darlena Williams-Burnett and accused them in a lawsuit of owning a “public nuisance” where drugs were sold.

Mark Alan Schwartz and Northwestern University chief of plastic surgery Dr. Gregory Dumanian formed 2 companies to develop the surgeon’s invention for the market. On Tuesday, Schwartz pleaded not guilty to federal charges.

Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez is furious over the tavern license granted to the Giant Penny Whistle, defying a moratorium along a three-block stretch of Blue Island Avenue. Sigcho-Lopez joined the Pilsen Neighbors Community Council in suing to nullify the license.

Lawyers for an ailing 73-year-old man freed after 33 years in prison now say they can prove a high-ranking police officer lied under oath in a case tainted by a notorious squad of Chicago officers.

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