Loading
Neighbors had gathered to celebrate the birthday of Kenneka Jenkins, who died of hypothermia in a Rosemont hotel freezer in 2017. Early Sunday, four people were shot and a 28-year-old man was killed.
The neighbor had pulled his dog off the officer's dog when it was shot at point-blank range in Bridgeport.
The festival, called Fiestas Patronales Puertorriqueñas, will feature new activities, such as a cookoff between firefighters, and new cultural art installations, including a banner stretching 20 feet wide where guests will use stickers to mark the towns they are from.
Andrea Kersten, chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, wrote in a letter to Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling that her office hadn’t received a written response to her earlier request to strip the tactical officers of their powers.