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The two women were in the 600 block of East 31st Street when they were shot, police said.
That makes nine schools renamed since a Chicago Sun-Times investigation found 30 schools were named for slaveholders, and schools named after white people — mostly men — vastly outnumbered those named for African Americans, Latinos and indigenous people.
Ivan Weldon, 42, is charged with stabbing a man in the neck, shoving and kicking another man, and punching a third man at two Green Line stops on the South Side.
Ruling means charter schools are not protected by the state’s school closing moratorium, which ends next year. The appellate decision is important because it frees the board to vote not to renew charter school contracts.