This made me laugh:
Jermaine D. Mitchell, 21, of 4417 W. Rockwell Drive called police about 9:40 p.m. to report he had been robbed at gunpoint in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, located in the 200 block of South MacArthur Highway.
Mitchell told officers the robbers stole his money, $48, and the nearly 40 grams of marijuana he just bought, police reports stated.
…Police also arrested Mitchell on a charge of possessing more than 30 grams of marijuana for admitting to having the drug.
Note: If someone steals your illegal drugs, don’t call the police.
Doug Crew has pulled out of the fifth district council race, canceling the need for a primary there. That leaves Dan Irving and Gloria Cassel-Fitzgerald, both of whom ran two years ago for at-large council seats.
In the at-large race, the top five vote-getters each won a seat on the council. Irving came in sixth. Cassel-Fitzgerald came in ninth. Taking a look at the precinct results, Irving got more votes than Cassel-Fitzgerald in every precinct in the fifth district. Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future results, but this is a good sign for Dan. (Full disclosure: I supported Dan Irving in the 2007 at-large election.)
Something else that would help Irving is if he can pull in the same endorsements he picked up two years ago, which included Ray LaHood, Jim Ardis, and Patrick Nichting.
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