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Case Foundation [5] The Chicago Spire was a skyscraper project in Chicago that was partially built between 2007 and 2008 before being cancelled. Located at 400 N. Lake Shore Drive , it would have stood 2,000 feet (610 m) high with 150 floors and been the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
Echoing the foundation's deep involvement in volunteering and civic engagement, CEO Jean Case also serves as chair of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, [4] which is working to expand business employees' pro bono service to nonprofit organizations in need of those services. [5]
William Moses Kunstler (July 7, 1919 – September 4, 1995) was an American attorney and civil rights activist, known for defending the Chicago Seven. [1] Kunstler was an active member of the National Lawyers Guild, a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the co-founder of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the "leading gathering place for radical lawyers in ...
On the day that the bodies of Hudson's mother and brother were discovered, Chicago police took Julia Hudson's estranged husband William Balfour, 27, into custody and he confessed . [5] Balfour was on parole and spent nearly seven years in prison for attempted murder , vehicular hijacking and possession of a stolen vehicle.
Helen Marie Brach (née Voorhees; born November 10, 1911 – disappeared February 17, 1977) was an American multimillionaire widow whose wealth had come from marrying into the E. J. Brach & Sons Candy Company fortune; she endowed the Helen V. Brach Foundation to promote animal welfare in 1974. [1]
Case Foundation; Center for US-China Arts Exchange ... Cherokee Preservation Foundation; Chicago Architecture Center; Child Alert Foundation; ClimateWorks Foundation ...
Some 11½ years later in 1944, following the intervention of Chicago Times reporters John McPhaul [4] and James McGuire, both men were exonerated of the crime. [5] The real killers have never been identified. The details of the case formed the basis of the 1948 film Call Northside 777 starring James Stewart, Lee J. Cobb, and Richard Conte.
Operation Greylord was an investigation conducted jointly by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Chicago Police Department Internal Affairs Division and the Illinois State Police into corruption in the judiciary of Cook County, Illinois (the Chicago jurisdiction).