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At least two people were carjacked Wednesday evening in Chicago, including a man on the West Side and a woman filling up her Maserati with gas in Kenwood.
About 6:30 p.m., several males confronted a motorist in the West Garfield Park neighborhood. One of the suspects pointed a gun at his head in the 3900 block of West Adams Street and demanded his car, police said.
The gunman took his personal property and drove off in the 47-year-old’s vehicle.
At 7:20 p.m., a woman was robbed of her Maserati at a Kenwood gas station. Multiple males came up with handguns as she pumped gas in the 1100 block of East 47th Street, police said. They took off in the car and were not in custody.
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30 Public Schools in Chicago Are Named for Slaveholders
John Marshall Metropolitan High School is a West Side institution.
One of the city’s oldest public high schools once heavily Jewish and for decades home to a nearly all-Black student body it boasts fiercely proud alumni and a reputation for powerhouse athletics.
It’s named for the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, widely regarded as the most influential leader of the nation’s highest court, honored with his face on postage stamps and his name on law schools in Chicago and elsewhere.
Marshall also was a slaveholder his entire adult life, with at least 200 Black slaves on his Virginia plantations.
Editor s note:
This is the final column from Times-Union reporter Sandy Strickland, who retired in early December after 51 years at the Jacksonville Journal and Times-Union.
Dear Call Box: The Times-Union ran a story earlier this year about an art display in the windows of Lee & Cates. It made me curious about the building, which I’ve passed by for years.
N.P., Southside
Dear N.P.: There are only traces of red brick peeking through the weathered exterior of the Lee & Cates building at 905 W. Forsyth St. The black name letters have faded to an obscure gray.
While battling the ravages of time, the shuttered structure has survived a fire and vagrants who used it as a shelter. For almost a century, it’s been a familiar sight in LaVilla.