A killing on 59th Street: 'I ain't come to Chicago to witness this ...'
Megan CrepeauContact ReporterChicago Tribune
Beat #0711, 10:50 p.m. Nov. 7
A man in a Pittsburgh Pirates ballcap ran into the bar on 59th Street late Saturday night screaming that someone had been shot.
Bar-goers went outside to see if it was true; across the street, they could see a shiny black Lexus with a shattered window and a man with a gunshot wound to the head.
"You're gonna have to find someplace else to be," a police officer told them as the man was loaded into an ambulance. He would be taken to Stroger Hospital and pronounced dead.
"Man, it happened so fast," said a man who was visiting from St. Louis. He missed witnessing the shooting by moments; he said he had just walked back into the bar when word got out.
A woman leaned out from the bar’s front door, calling him over: "I ain't come to Chicago to witness this …," she yelled.
"I gonna go back in and drink," the man said.
Most of the people outside had the same idea. So did a few new faces who ducked under the crime scene tape to get into the bar, a brick building painted white without a name posted outside or any apparent sign that you could walk in and have a drink.
People cycled in and out of the doorway, watching police and trying to sort out what happened.
"They shot the guy in the head," a woman said into a pink cellphone. "I don't even know. I ain't hear the shots. Chicago, folks!
"You buying me a drink?" she asked one man who had walked past the red police tape and into the bar. "I lost all my business, you better buy me a drink."
A man in a Chicago Bulls cap leaned out of the door to flag down an officer. "I respect this crime scene, but this is Englewood, and I've got $8,000 worth of power tools in that truck," he said, pointing in front of him. The officer assured him they'd keep an eye on it, and the man smiled.
"Next time I see you, I'm gonna buy you a pierogi," he said.
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Mother of slain 14-year-old on return to Chicago: 'I wish I never came back'
Rosemary Regina SobolChicago Tribune
Franika Marshall is expecting twin girls in March but had to say goodbye Saturday night to her 14-year-old son, J-Quantae Riles. He was shot dead on a West Englewood sidewalk just weeks after returning to a city that his mother had initially left to keep him away from violence.
"I'm numb," said Marshall, sitting on a dining room chair in her mother's home in the 5700 block of South Seeley Avenue. Surrounded by friends and family Sunday morning, her eyes half closed with tears streaming down her cheeks, her left hand never left her baby bump.
22 shot in Chicago over 12 hours, including girl, 11, killed at sleepover
Mitch Smith and Peter Nickeas and Juan Perez Jr.Tribune reporters
Shamiya Adams was sitting on a bedroom floor in her best friend's home, making s'mores after an evening of practicing a dance routine, when the shot ripped through the house in Garfield Park.
The bullet crashed through the wall of the bedroom and struck the 11-year-old in the head. She was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital, where family kept an overnight vigil until the girl was pronounced dead at 7:33 a.m. today.
"They came out and told us she wasn't going to make it," Shamiya's grandmother said. "Oh, my God."
Funeral service canceled after wrong body found in casket
Tony BriscoeChicago Tribune
The funeral services for a Chicago woman were canceled over the weekend after the funeral home misindentified her body and buried her a day earlier, according to relatives and funeral home officials.
Family members of Ella Mae Rutledge, 74, had arrived at Leak and Sons Funeral Home in the Chatham neighborhood Friday afternoon to perform a last-minute inspection of her body before the viewing, said her daughter, Monique Williams.
Source: Blackhawks pushing hard to acquire defenseman via trade
Chris Kuc and Chris HineChicago Tribune
Duncan Keith is nearing a return to the Blackhawks and with Michal Rozsivalalso close to joining the lineup, the defense is about to be back at full strength.
It may get another big boost soon as a source said the Hawks continue to push hard to acquire a defenseman via trade. Entering Sunday night's game against the Oilers, the Hawks were 14th in the NHL in goals allowed per game at 2.57.
Even before Keith underwent knee surgery that caused him to miss the last eight games, the Hawks were exploring the trade market for a blue liner.
Medical marijuana goes on sale Monday in Illinois
Robert McCoppinChicago Tribune
Marijuana is expected to be sold legally in Illinois for the first time in decades Monday to those who have qualified to be among the first patients in the state's medical cannabis program.
Barring any last-minute glitches, up to eight marijuana dispensaries, including several in the Chicago area, are scheduled to open Monday, after state regulators gave cultivation centers the go-ahead to start shipping the drug to the retailers late last week.
Illinois officials said they mailed the required ID cards Oct.
For love and money: Top free-agent pitchers could woo Cubs
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Some random thoughts while waiting for baseball executives and agents to arrive Monday for the general managers meetings at the Boca Raton Club and Resort:
Courting Cubs? Imagine this scenario. Instead of multiple teams entering into a bidding war over one player, the Cubs could turn the tables and have multiple starters vying to get the nine-figure contract they're likely to offer one of them.
Picture an episode of "The Bachelor," except with Theo Epstein handing the rose to David Price, Zack Greinke or Jordan Zimmermann.
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