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Cardinal Blase Cupich announced today that Rev. Michael Pfleger is being reinstated early next month as the senior pastor of St. Sabina Parish after the Archdiocese of Chicago cleared him to return following an internal probe into allegations of sexual abuse.
In a letter to St. Sabina’s congregation, Cupich said the archdiocese’s independent review board “concluded there is no reason to suspect Father Pfleger is guilty of these allegations.” Cupich noted Pfleger will return to his position starting June 5.
My Block, My Hood, My City models walk a Red Line train runway Saturday to show off the organization’s summer clothing line and raise funds for its programs. Starting at the Howard Red Line going south, youth involved in its programs modeled clothes, sang and performed spoken word poetry.
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As a Red Line trained rolled south Saturday afternoon it wasn’t picking up and dropping it off passengers unless you count the models that strutted and danced down the aisles of the privately-chartered train to hit songs by Dua Lipa, Beyoncé and others.
My Block, My Hood, My City was hosting “Railways,” a crosstown fashion show to promote the youth-led, community-minded organization’s summer clothing line of branded gear.
Person shot near 95th/Dan Ryan Red Line station
By Sun-Times Media Wire
Police yellow tape delineating a crime scene
CHICAGO - A person was shot Thursday near the 95th/Dan Ryan Red Line stop on the South Side.
He was inside of a vehicle about noon in the 9700 block of South State Street when someone opened fire, striking him in the back, Chicago police said.
The vehicle he was in crashed into a parked vehicle after the shooting, police said.
Paramedics picked up the 19-year-old at 95th Street and State and he was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious condition, according to police and fire officials.
6 shot, 2 fatally, Thursday in Chicago
By Sun-Times Media Wire
CHICAGO - Two people were killed and four others were wounded Thursday in shootings across Chicago.
In the day’s latest fatal attack, a man was killed in a shooting Thursday night in East Garfield Park.
He was found laying face down and unconscious in an alley about 11:20 p.m. in the 3800 block of West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago police said. The man, about 30 years old, was shot in the lower back and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The Cook County Medical examiner’s office hasn’t released details on the death.