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Trial date set for Cullerton State Sen. Tom Cullerton, a Villa Park Democrat, has been charged with one count of conspiracy to embezzle from a labor union and employee benefit plans, 39 counts of embezzlement from a labor union, and one count of making false statements in a health care matter. He denies any wrongdoing. Lee Milner/Illinois Times   Updated 4/27/2021 3:08 PM SPRINGFIELD -- State Sen. Tom Cullerton, who was indicted in 2019 on charges of embezzlement, is set to go to trial in February next year, a federal judge said on Tuesday. Cullerton, a Democrat from Villa Park...

Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times file Cook County prosecutors dropped charges Wednesday against a man who set fire to a Chicago police SUV during the George Floyd protests last summer. Associate Judge Alfredo Maldonado accepted the prosecutors’ motion. Fagundo, 23, faces a sentence of eight to 14 months in federal prison. His sentencing before U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman is scheduled for July 14. Jacob Fagundo Chicago police Fagundo, a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, admitted to bringing fireworks and lighter fluid to a May 30 protest and using them to set fire to a police S...

Chicago man pleads guilty to torching police SUV amid unrest April 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge for setting fire to a police SUV during last year's unrest in the city's downtown following George Floyd's death in Minneapolis. Jacob Michael Fagundo, 23, faces a likely sentence of eight to 14 months behind bars after pleading guilty Thursday to obstructing law enforcement amid a civil disorder. He is scheduled to be sentenced July 14. Fagundo admitted to U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman that he set fire to a Chicago police...

How a School District Proved Gifted Programs Can Be Racially Diverse Copy Link Albuquerque students’ artwork and a poem about volcanoes, displayed at the 2019 National Association for Gifted Children conference.  (Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report) April Wells grew up west of Chicago, a bright and avid bookworm in a low-income family. Her district, U-46, had gifted classes, but most of the students in them were white, and no one suggested that Wells, who is Black, might benefit from them. Until middle school, when a U-46 administrator — Wells’ friend’s mother, also Bl...

A former Chicago city inspector pleaded guilty to fraud Tuesday in a case stemming from the ongoing federal investigation of Ald. Carrie Austin. Joseph Garcia, 38, of Chicago, entered his plea to a charge of wire fraud in a telephone hearing before U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman. He faces up to 21 months in prison under preliminary sentencing guidelines. The indictment filed in 2019 ...