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A group of aldermen are calling on Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. J.B. Pritzker to replace embattled Chicago Transit Authority President Dorval Carter.
Nineteen aldermen, including several progressive Johnson allies and other more conservative aldermen, have so far signed onto the resolution that also calls for Carter to resign, according to lead co-sponsor Ald. Matt Martin, 47th. Though nonbinding, it’s the sharpest City Hall rebuke of Carter yet as the leader’s CTA continues to struggle with hiring, service cuts, lagging ridership and a looming financial cliff.
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![Doris Hernandez reads from a notebook of poems that she wrote to help her cope with the loss of her son, who was killed in 2012 in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, on May 9, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)](https://i0.wp.com/www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CTC-L-little-village-mother-poet10_191107974.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
A Little Village mother forgave her son’s killer. Now she writes poems to honor victims of gang violence.
She began to write, channeling her emotions into verses that pay tribute to the suffering of a community in Chicago that has been plagued by gang and gun violence for decades. Read more here.
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![Passengers wait while a Southwest Airlines Boeing jet parks at a gate in Terminal 5 at O'Hare International Airport on May 9, 2024. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)](https://i0.wp.com/www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CTC-L-o-hare-boeing-18_190873196.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
Here’s how Boeing delivery delays are hitting Chicago ahead of busy summer travel season
Southwest Airlines is slashing the number of flights it will offer out of O’Hare by 33% this summer, according to data from aviation firm Cirium, as it deals with delays getting planes from Boeing and weak financial results. Read more here.
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![The top of the scoreboard at Guaranteed Rate Field on March 21, 2024. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)](https://i0.wp.com/www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CTC-SULLY-0513.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
Column: Brief scoreboard malfunction for Chicago White Sox induces temporary panic for modern-day baseball fan
Going to a game has changed since former Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck introduced the exploding scoreboard in 1960. Has modern technology and analytics led to too much information to process? Read more here.
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![Mark Mothersbaugh leads Devo during a performance at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago on May 11, 2024. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)](https://i0.wp.com/www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CTC-L-devo-riviera014_191275254.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
Column: Devo in concert in Chicago: At 50, no signs of de-evolution
They walked out in matching windbreakers with “Reverse Evolution” on the backs; later, for the first of several costume changes, they wore their famous yellow industrial jumpsuits, and, of course, those red “energy domes”/flowerpots (and so did many in the audience). Read more here.
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![FILE - Michael Cohen, former attorney to Donald Trump, leaves the District Attorney's office in New York, March 13, 2023. Cohen is prosecutors' most central witness in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial. But Trump's fixer-turned-foe is also as challenging a star witness as they come. The now-disbarred lawyer has a tortured history with Trump. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)](https://i0.wp.com/www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Trump_Hush_Money_Cohen_10692_8fb321.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
‘Make sure it doesn’t get released’; star witness Michael Cohen implicates Trump in hush money case
Cohen told jurors that his celebrity client approved hefty payouts to stifle stories about sex that he feared could be harmful to his 2016 White House campaign. Read more here.
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