
After seven years of being together, and postponing their wedding twice due to COVID, the couple was happy to finally tie the knot. Perla and Edgar Bernal were part of the first group to make their way down the aisle. Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Timesįamily members and onlookers cheered as couples said “I do” and a four-person orchestra performed. 50 couples were married outside the Wrigley Building during The Mile. David Gombert and Shaun Airey stand at the altar outside the Wrigley Building on N Michigan Ave during the Meet Me on The Mile Sunday Spectacle Sunday, Sept. Every 10 minutes, a new group of couples made their way down the aisles with two witnesses of their choosing in tow. White carpets, flanked with floral arrangements, led each couple to a Cook County judge. In the building’s plaza, four aisles were set up beneath the bridge. “I wanted to get 100 couples, or 100 people, to represent the 100 years,” said Bradley Borowiec, vice president of Zeller, the real estate group that manages the building. Wedding bells were ringing under the Wrigley building bridge on the Magnificent Mile yesterday.įifty couples were chosen for the opportunity to get married outside of the building, which is celebrating its 100th year anniversary. Sarah Sherman, a boundary-pushing Chicago comedian also known as “Sarah Squirm,” will be part of the cast for the upcoming season of “Saturday Night Live.” Sherman joins the “SNL” cast as New Trier grad Beck Bennett says goodbye after eight seasons, NBC announced today.ĥ0 couples tie the knot outside Wrigley building.Housing stock in the area also dropped significantly, which has been devastating for the community, Manny Ramos reports. Though Chicago’s population grew over the last decade, the number of people living in Englewood dropped by more than 20%, according to census data.Muñoz, who served the city’s 22nd Ward, admitted to stealing caucus money to pay for personal expenses like skydiving. Ricardo Muñoz pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and money laundering in his federal corruption case. David Struett has more on one of the at least nine people killed in Chicago gun violence over the weekend. An 18-year-old shot and killed over the weekend in West Elsdon had just returned home Saturday evening after spending the day with their mother.On the second day of deliberations, the jury of seven men and five women found Kelly guilty of racketeering. Kelly was convicted by a jury today in his federal sex trafficking case in Brooklyn after decades of allegations.
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Tom Schuba and Matthew Hendrickson have the full story. And that’s disheartening, it’s just angering.” “It’s not seeming like the justice system is working for us. “We don’t know where to go,” said Regina Broughton, the sisters’ grandmother. While law enforcement authorities were feuding, the suspect was released from custody and now can’t be found, according to a law enforcement source. What’s more, the family of the victims have been left without justice and unsure if there is a clear path to getting it. The case has had lasting reverberations in the Chicago Police Department, with some saying it has decimated morale among an already beleaguered police detective division. While previous news accounts highlighted the disagreement between police and prosecutors, the new revelations include documentation of the extent cops went to pursue the case without Foxx’s involvement - and also show how it ended up driving a wedge between police leaders and their subordinates. The court proceedings were so hush-hush - done without an attorney for the suspect or a prosecutor present - that no record of any of the actions were ever officially filed within the court system. When Cook County prosecutors rejected charging a suspect in the shooting that left 7-year-old Serenity Broughton dead and wounded her younger sister, it set off an extraordinary chain of events earlier this month that veteran court observers believe is unprecedented in recent history.Ī high-ranking Chicago police commander, frustrated by another recent case rejection by Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office and confident in his detective’s work, went to a judge to have the suspect held in custody for longer and circumvent prosecutors to charge the man with murder and attempted murder.īut hours later, top police brass reversed course - and persuaded another judge to essentially “uncharge” the suspect, as a source familiar with the case described the move. Top story How a Chicago murder suspect was charged, then uncharged, in an extraordinary behind-the-scenes battle among law enforcement Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high near 76. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low around 60. This afternoon will be mostly sunny with a high near 85 degrees.
