Richard Burton, who pleaded guilty to a bribery conspiracy in June 2019, admitted at the time that he paid the two officers for early access to information from traffic crash reports. A man who paid thousands of dollars in bribes to two Chicago police officers was sentenced today to one year behind bars, but a judge said he won’t have to report to prison until next spring.Allison Arwady also confirmed that COVID-19 cases are on the rise. For “Vaccine Awareness Day,” Mayor Lightfoot and her wife, Amy Eshleman, got their COVID-19 booster shots alongside several newly vaccine-eligible children.Mayor Lori Lightfoot today denounced the Civilian Office of Police Accountability’s decision to release a report recommending a three-day suspension for slain Chicago Police Officer Ella French as the “height of tone-deafness.” The COPA report accused French of failing to wear a body-worn camera when she showed up at the botched raid on the home of a social worker and failing to fill out the required form.A 16-count indictment alleges owners and workers at several Chicago-area convenience stores accepted checks from the Women, Infants and Children program for ineligible items at the stores, often at inflated prices. A Chicago police officer is among nine people facing federal charges for defrauding a low-income food program for women and children.The order also has had other credibly accused clerics living in Chicago, Robert Herguth reports. Timothy Keppel was credible, a Catholic order moved Keppel next to two Chicago-area schools - without informing administrators there. After finding out a California sexual abuse complaint against the Rev.Read WBEZ’s investigation into Chicago’s water bill crisis and the toll it’s taken on many of the city’s homeowners here. Now, tens of thousands can’t keep up with the rising costs. For years, Chicago leaders turned the city’s water supply into a revenue stream.Lauren FitzPatrick has more on Fischer and the toxic culture of the parks department here. The high-level terminations came after the release of a 43-page report by a former federal prosecutor hired to investigate whether parks managers protected lifeguards who reported abusive treatment of lifeguards by their more senior colleagues.
2 from his $100,000-a-year job, accused of ignoring the complaint by a teenage lifeguard, who named his daughter among her hazers and said she’d been shoved into a wall, called profane and sexually degrading names by coworkers and left alone for hours at her post for refusing to take part in their drinking parties and on-the-job drug use.Īlso booted were Adam Bueling, the aquatics manager who inherited Fischer’s former post as beaches and pool manager, and Alonzo Williams, Fischer’s boss. Besides his father, his children also landed coveted gigs at Oak Street Beach.įischer, 51, was fired Nov. Laurence High School when actually he was just 13 years old.įor his first assignment, he lucked into a glamor gig, working at Oak Street Beach, where his father also had worked.įor Fischer, who rose to captain of the Oak Street lifeguards before moving up to head all park district aquatics programs, lifeguarding has been the family business. The son of a popular Southwest Side lifeguard, Eric Fischer fudged his age on an application to be a lifeguard in 1983, saying he’d already finished two years at St. The man at the center of a Chicago Park District scandal over complaints by lifeguards of abusive behavior and sexual harassment by more senior lifeguards started his career with a little lie. Top story For parks aquatics boss, firing over Chicago lifeguards scandal a hard fall from the family business Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a high near 40, and Sunday there’s a 70% chance of rain with a high near 39. Scattered snow showers are expected tonight, mainly before 8 p.m., with a low around 33. This afternoon will see rain and eventually intermittent snow showers, with temperatures steady around 37 degrees.
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