State lawmakers to get 10% pay raise
SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Rod Blagojevich, doing battle with lawmakers for months, let them have their nearly 10 percent pay raises despite vowing during his re-election campaign to veto the increases.
Wish I could make laws giving myself a 10% raise. Or how about just a 10% reduction in what taxes I pay to pay for their pay raise?
[via Chicago Tribune]
Man shot while driving on South Side
A Chicago man was shot and killed while driving on a far South Side street, Chicago police said this morning.
Howard Taylor, 19, of the 13000 block of South King Drive and a cousin were traveling westbound at about 10 p.m. in the 800 block of East 130th Street near the Chicago Housing Authority’s Altgeld Garden complex when one of three men standing on the opposite side of the street opened fire with a handgun, hitting the driver in the head, police said.
[via Chicago Tribune]
Three shot, one fatally, on S. Side porch
A 20-year-old man was fatally shot and two other people were injured after being shot on a South Side porch late Monday.
Javon Morris, of the 1100 block of West 104th Place, was pronounced dead at 2 a.m. Tuesday at the Stein Institute, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
[via Chicago Sun-Times]
CHICAGO Cyclist struck, killed by truck in South Loop
A Chicago man, Ryan Boudreau, 27, riding his bicycle in the South Loop was struck and killed by a truck Monday afternoon, police said.
Boudreau was riding his bicycle south in the 1800 block of Clark Street when he was hit by a truck traveling northbound at about 3:15 p.m., Chicago Police Sgt. Eugene Mullins said.
[via Chicago Tribune]
