Midday News Links: Charges Filed In Shamiya Adams Death
By Chuck Sudo in News on Jul 25, 2014 6:30PM
- Tevin Lee, 18, was charged with the shooting death of 11-year-old Shamiya Adams. Lee was called a known gang banger by Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, but also worked in a neighborhood anti-violence program. [Tribune]
- Bulls center Joakim Noah will hold a news conference Friday to announce ways to address violence in Chicago and will work with community organizations through his charitable foundation. [Crain's]
- Who was the greatest baseball manager White Sox announcer Ken "Hawk" Harrelson fired when he was a general manager? Tony La Russa, who is entering Baseball's Hall of Fame Sunday. [Sun-Times]
- Bridgeport residents, including 11th Ward Ald. James Balcer, voiced their complaints about the jet noise from a new arrival pattern into Midway Airport to a meeting of the Chicago Aviation Department Thursday. (I grew up on the Northwest side so I'm kind of used to it.) [DNAInfo Chicago]
- Anne Dias Griffin, wife of Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin, was stunned at the timing of her husband's divorce filing Wednesday, as it came as she and her children were on their way out of the country. [Sun-Times]
