Por HOWARD FENDRICH

Aryna Sabalenka ganó su segundo premio consecutivo a la Jugadora del Año de la Gira de la WTA el lunes, obteniendo casi el 80% de los votos de un panel de medios después de ganar el Abierto de Estados Unidos, llegar a las finales de otros dos torneos de Grand Slam y cerrar la temporada como número uno en el ranking.

Sabalenka se unió a Serena Williams e Iga Swiatek como las únicas ganadoras consecutivas de este honor en los últimos 25 años.

La bielorrusa de 27 años lideró el tenis femenino en victorias de partidos (con un récord de 63-12), títulos (4) y finales alcanzadas (9) en 2025, y estableció un récord en la gira al ganar 15 millones de dólares en premios. Pasó todo el año como número 1.

En los torneos importantes, Sabalenka fue subcampeona ante Madison Keys en el Abierto de Australia en enero y ante Coco Gauff en el Abierto de Francia en junio. Además, llegó a las semifinales en Wimbledon en julio antes de perder por el duelo por el título ante Amanda Anisimova y consiguió su cuarto trofeo de Grand Slam en individuales con una exitosa defensa del título en el Abierto de Estados Unidos en septiembre, derrotando a Anisimova en la final.

Anisimova fue seleccionada como Jugadora Más Mejorada después de llegar a sus dos primeras finales de Grand Slam en el All England Club —donde fue subcampeona ante Swiatek— y en Flushing Meadows. Alcanzó otras tres finales, incluyendo títulos WTA 1000 en Doha y Beijing.

La estadounidense de 24 años terminó 2024 en el puesto 36 del ranking y, después de debutar en el Top 10, ascendió hasta el número 4 al final de esta temporada. Anisimova también fue nominada como Jugadora del Año.

Esta temporada culminó un gran ascenso para Anisimova, quien se tomó un tiempo libre en 2023, diciendo que había estado “luchando con mi salud mental” durante casi un año.

Otros galardonados el lunes incluyeron a Vicky Mboko como Novata del Año, Belinda Bencic como Jugadora Regreso del Año, y Katerina Siniakova y Taylor Townsend como Equipo de Dobles del Año.

Mboko, una canadiense de 19 años, elevó su ranking desde fuera del top 300 hasta dentro del top 20 con una temporada que incluyó un trofeo WTA 1000 en Montreal al vencer a cuatro campeonas de Grand Slam en individuales.

Bencic estuvo fuera de la gira por más de un año mientras tenía a su primer hijo, luego ganó dos títulos en 2025 y alcanzó las semifinales en Wimbledon por primera vez —su primera aparición en las semifinales de un major desde 2019.

Siniakova y Townsend ganaron el Abierto de Australia y fueron subcampeonas en el Abierto de Estados Unidos.

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Anthony Geary, the actor who defined soap opera stardom as Luke Spencer on “General Hospital,” has died. He was 78.

Geary died Sunday from complications following an operation he underwent in his adopted hometown of Amsterdam, his husband, Claudio Gama, told TV Insider.

On “General Hospital,” Geary became a soap superstar as half of the genre’s defining supercouple, Luke and Laura. His pairing with Genie Francis’ Laura Spencer was credited with saving “General Hospital” from cancellation and igniting a soap opera boom in the 1980s.

The 1981 episode in which the two characters were wed drew 30 million viewers, which remains a daytime television record. Hollywood superstar Elizabeth Taylor, herself a huge “GH” fan, asked for and received a cameo in the episode.

“This show has been a huge part of my life for over half my life, and Luke Spencer is my alter ego,” Geary told TV Line when he finally left “GH” for good in 2015 and retired. “I really don’t want to die, collapsing in a heap, on that ‘GH’ set one day. That wouldn’t be too poetic.”

Born May 29, 1947, in the small town of Coalville, Utah, Geary dreamed of being a movie star from an early age. His big break came in college at the University of Utah, which he attended on a theater scholarship.

While starring with Jack Albertson in a collegiate production, Geary made such an impression on Albertson that the Tony winner brought him on tour. That led Geary to Los Angeles, where he began his career picking up guest roles in various TV shows, including “All in the Family” and “Starsky & Hutch.”

Geary’s first soap opera appearance actually came in 1971 on “Bright Promise,” and he made a brief appearance two years later on “The Young and the Restless.” But his life changed in 1978, when he debuted as Luke on “GH.”

Initially, Geary signed up for a simple 13-episode character arc. By the time he was done on “GH,” he’d appeared in more than 1,900 episodes and earned eight Daytime Emmy awards.

“I didn’t really see the character as lasting this long. I read a really exciting story that had a lot of acting potential and dramatic impact,” Geary told Entertainment Weekly in 2008. “When I read it back in those days, I wasn’t looking for a career in soaps. I was trying to do the job as best I could, day to day.”

Luke and Laura won hearts across America despite the couple’s horrifying start, in which a drunken Luke rapes Laura at a club he owns but she falls in love with him anyway.

“I’ve had to justify it for so many years,” Geary told People magazine in 2020. “And I have to say, it feels good to sit here and say I won’t justify it. It’s awful. They shouldn’t have done it.”

But within three years, “GH” was drawing 30 million viewers to watch the duo get married. Despite the massive commercial success, Geary developed a love-hate relationship with the character and the show. His attempts to break out into other shows and movies were foiled in part due to his success — everyone just recognized him as Luke Spencer.

“I’ve come to terms with it. I did resent it in my 30s, early 40s,” he told EW. “When you look at an actor who’s been able to have a secure job for 30 years, that’s such a blessing in this business.”

Like many soap stars, Geary left and returned to “GH” several times, finally departing for good in 2015, while the character was killed off off-screen in 2022.

“It was once very difficult for me to realize that more than likely my obituary in the paper will read, ‘Luke of Luke and Laura fame died today,’” he said in 2015. “It was very upsetting when I came to that realization.”

But Geary also acknowledged all the benefits that came with being a star, including the ability to make contract demands that allowed him to live part-time in Los Angeles and part-time in Amsterdam. He met Gama in the 1990s, and they married in 2019.

“You balance that with what it has given me,” Geary said in 2008. “In the end it’s been well worth it.”

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/general-hospital-anthony-geary-dies/ 

Free And Fair?

Tyler Durden
Mon, 12/15/2025 – 16:20

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/free-and-fair 

Saying she had “serious concerns” about the safety of the community, a federal judge on Monday ordered a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent held without bond on charges he used his gun and badge to force his way into hotel rooms and rob and sexually assault at least four prostitutes in Chicago’s suburbs in 2022.

Luis Uribe, 44, was charged in an indictment unsealed last week with 10 counts of deprivation of civil rights under color of law and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. If convicted Uribe faces a mandatory minimum seven years in federal prison and a maximum of life.

In asking for release on bond, Uribe’s court-appointed lawyer, Mary Higgins Judge, said he is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran with no criminal history and strong ties to the community. Judge said Uribe is still employed on desk duty by Customs and Border Protection and noted he has not tried to flee despite knowing he was under investigation.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Luis Uribe, charged in a series of robberies and sexual assaults of sex workers in Chicago’s northwest suburbs, is shown in a photo in a court document allegedly meeting with a witness at a seafood buffet. (U.S. attorney’s office)

U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, however, sided with prosecutors and ordered Uribe held pending trial, saying the evidence against him appeared to be strong and that she was particularly disturbed by allegations he used his service weapon and badge to commit the assaults.

“To me, a position of law enforcement, a federal law enforcement officer who carries a weapon, poses a danger to the community, and that is something I have very serious concerns about,” Hotaling said.

After the hearing, two uniformed Customs and Border Protection officers who had been seated in the courtroom gallery approached Uribe and appeared to hand him some paperwork to sign. Uribe’s attorney, Mary Judge, told reporters he declined to sign anything without consulting his union representative.

The Department of Homeland Security has declined to comment directly on Uribe’s case, citing federal privacy laws. Last week, the agency wrote in a statement that CBP “takes all allegations of employee misconduct seriously.”

“Overall, CBP employees, officers and agents perform their duties with honor and distinction, working tirelessly every day to keep our country safe,” the statement read. “CBP is committed to ensuring that all employees are held to the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, and personal conduct.”

According to a U.S. military spokesperson, Uribe served in the Marine Corps  from 1999 to 2003 and rose to the rank of corporal, specializing as a field radio operator and earning several medals for good conduct. His last duty assignment was with the 5th Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

Uribe joined CBP in 2009. Federal prosecutors have said that at the time of the alleged offenses, Uribe was as an officer assigned “primarily” to O’Hare International Airport and worked on both customs and immigration issues.

According to a court filing last week, Uribe on six separate occasions in 2022 used his “service weapon, badge or credentials, as well as the power of his position,” to force victims — who are all of Chinese descent — to submit to sex or provide him with cash. One of the four victims was attacked three different times, prosecutors said.

The first attack occurred in February 2022 at a Schaumburg hotel where one woman, identified only as Victim A, had come from out of state to work in the sex trade, prosecutors said.

“One day, while at the hotel, Victim A heard a knock at the door and opened the door,” prosecutors alleged in the filing. “It was (Uribe), who pushed his way into her room and displayed what Victim A described as an ID card with his picture on it.”

Uribe “stated that he was a police officer, that he was investigating Victim A, and that she needed to cooperate with him,” the prosecution filing said.

Uribe then pushed the woman onto the bed and put his gun to her head and ordered her to perform oral sex, prosecutors said. The victim begged him to stop and offered him money, which he eventually accepted. As he left the room, Uribe “pointed his gun at Victim A and told her not to look at him,” prosecutors said.

Another woman, Victim B, was staying at a hotel in Naperville when Uribe forced his way into her room, identified himself as police, demanded cash and sexually assaulted her, prosecutors said.

That victim later moved to a different room because of the attack, but Uribe “victimized her again” in that room as well, prosecutors said. Victim B then switched hotels and planned to leave Chicago, but before she escaped Uribe sexually attacked her a third time, striking her in the face when she screamed, prosecutors said.

As word of the attacks spread, another sex worker was tasked by a China-based boss to meet with Uribe at a seafood buffet restaurant in the northwest suburbs. The goal, prosecutors said, was to surreptitiously get Uribe’s photograph so people could be warned, and also to offer him a deal: free sex if he stopped attacking workers.

“Defendant agreed, however, he did not abide by the terms of the bargain,” prosecutors said.

On Oct. 2, 2022, Uribe attacked a third woman, Victim C, at a hotel in Schaumburg, again brandishing his gun and badge and demanding cash and sex, prosecutors said. Two days later, Schaumburg police interviewed that victim and collected forensic evidence from the room.

Tollway records analyzed by the FBI showed Uribe had left work at O’Hare that day and traveled toward Schaumburg, prosecutors said in the filing. While on the highway, he allegedly searched in Google Maps for the hotel where Victim C was staying.

The fourth victim, Victim D, was attacked at a different hotel in Schaumburg a short time after she’d reported Victim C’s assault to their boss, prosecutors said. In that incident, Uribe was “about to rape” Victim D when there was a knock at the door and he fled the hotel.

According to the prosecution memo, the investigation continues and the government “believes there may be additional victims identified in the future.”

In asking for bond to be denied, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Shih told the judge Uribe’s DNA was found on hotel bedding after one of the alleged attacks. The FBI was also able to match toll plaza records and Google Maps searches to place Uribe at or near the hotels when the assaults occurred, Shih said.

Shih said Uribe has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Mexico and “has extreme incentive” to flee due to the life sentence he’s potentially facing.

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/border-protection-agent-held-bond-rape/ 

Tinley Park police Cmdr. Patrick St. John, 54, was charged with domestic battery and violating an order of protection Friday, according the Cook County sheriff’s office.

St. John turned himself in at about 6:15 a.m. Friday and resigned later that day. His retirement will be effective Dec. 19. St. John has been on leave for the past several weeks, said Tinley Park Village Manager Pat Carr.

Sheriff detectives said St. John violated an order of protection by trying to contact the victim through a third party. Detectives also said St. John had previously assaulted the victim, according to a sheriff’s office statement.

St. John appeared at the Cook County courthouse in Bridgeview Friday, where he was ordered to surrender his FOID card and firearms, refrain from going to certain areas and communicating with certain people and refrain from possessing a firearm or other dangerous weapon, according to court documents.

St. John was released from custody and ordered by Cook County Judge Michael Chvatal to gather his belongings with a police escort Friday. St. John is scheduled to appear again in court Jan. 26.

Carr said village officials are aware of the “very serious domestic battery allegations” against St. John.

Carr said the village initiated the investigation that brought the charges and is working collaboratively with the Cook County sheriff’s office “to ensure there is no perception of impropriety or special treatment.”

“I want to stress that the village holds all of our officers to the highest standards and will call to account anyone convicted of wrongdoing,” Carr said. “The actions of one officer in no way reflect the values of the Tinley Park Police Department and all of the fine men and women who serve our town.”

St. John has worked for Tinley Park police for nearly 27 years and was promoted to commander in December 2024, Carr said.

The Tinley Park Police Metropolitan Alliance of Police 192 Union, which voted no confidence against the Tinley Police chief in August, emphasized in a statement Friday that St. John was not part of the union, due to his status as an administrator.

Union officials also said the union supports survivors of domestic violence and said the union hopes the justice system addresses the serious allegations fully and fairly.

“As the officers often first on the scene of these calls, we witness the trauma involved and our thoughts are with those affected by this incident,” the union statement read. “We have faith in justice being sought and delivered.”

The union further advocated that new leadership be selected in a “transparent, merit-based process.”

The Tinley Park Village Board is scheduled to vote on appointing Frederick Melean to commander Tuesday night.

Melean has 31 years of law enforcement experience, including 25 years in supervisory and command positions, according to a village statement. This includes serving as sergeant, lieutenant, commander and deputy chief.

The village statement also said Melean has experience in managing large teams and achieving operational goals.

Melean was Chicago deputy police chief before retiring in 2023.

If appointed as Tinley Park’s police commander, Melean would begin Jan. 5.

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A former U.S. Navy petty officer who was imprisoned almost three decades before he was exonerated in the killing of his ex-wife in Lake County has settled a lawsuit for $13 million, his lawyers said Monday.

Herman Williams, who served 28 years for murder, settled the lawsuit he filed in 2023 against Lake County and a number of police officers, county officials and police departments, whom his attorneys said manipulated evidence to secure a conviction for the 1993 murder of Penny Williams.

Penny’s body was found in a shallow pond at the Midlane Country Club in Waukegan in September 1993. At the time, she and Herman Williams were divorced and were the parents of two young children. Herman was a chief petty officer assigned to the Naval Station Great Lakes, and he and his ex-wife were living together platonically in Gurnee.

Herman was arrested, charged with the murder and found guilty in 1994. He was sentenced to life in prison.

After decades of trying to prove his innocence, Williams saw his conviction vacated in 2022 after Lake County prosecutors admitted that law enforcement officials altered evidence to help gain a conviction. Williams filed a federal lawsuit in 2023 against police departments and municipalities, Lake County and the Major Crime Task Force.

“Not only did he lose more than 28 years of his life and suffer in prison as an innocent man, but his two children, who were only six and three years old at the time of Penny’s murder, grew up without either of their parents, and worse, under the mistaken belief that their father murdered their mother,” said attorney Antonio Romanucci, who represented Williams.

“Since Herman was exonerated, he has reconciled with his children and is fighting every day to restore his life and his relationships,” Romanucci said.

Williams, 61, has been an Arizona resident since he was released from prison.

“While Herman can never get back the years he spent in prison as an innocent man, we hope this settlement will help him close this painful chapter in his life and find peace in the years ahead,” said attorney Brian Eldridge, whose firm also represented Williams.

A spokesman for Lake County did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment. No one else has been charged in the murder of Penny Williams.

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The Aurora City Council last week voted to buy a piece of equipment for the police department through a different vendor than the one city staff proposed, and at a higher price, over concerns about the company that made the lowest bid.

Police have said that the piece of equipment, called a drive test scanner, will allow them to better map the ranges of cell towers to verify evidence they already gather through other means. The city is now set to purchase the equipment, along with associated services like training, from LexisNexis for roughly $195,000 using asset forfeiture funds.

The purchase was first proposed to a committee of the Aurora City Council in May and saw multiple delays throughout the approval process. Former alderman Rick Lawrence, during the public comment period of various meetings, voiced concerns about the proposal both because of the equipment itself and the company it was set to be bought from.

Aurora was considering buying the drive test scanner along with associated software, training and support, from Five Eight Group for $170,000. That company was founded by Michael Pezzelle, who spent 15 years at the police department in Mesa, Arizona, and worked on task forces with both the FBI and U.S. Marshals, according to the company’s website.

A report by The Marshall Project, published in partnership with The Arizona Republic and USA Today Network, said that Pezzelle was involved in shootings that wounded two people and killed five, including a teenage girl. That report from 2021 looked into the U.S. Marshals Service acting like local police but with more violence and less accountability, and it used Pezzelle as an example, noting at the time that Pezzelle had faced no public consequences for the shootings.

“That’s who you are doing business with,” Lawrence said during an Aurora City Council meeting in October. “You’ve known it. You’ve seen the documents. We’ve sent you the documents.”

Pezzelle did not respond to a request for comment made during past reporting, and also did not immediately respond to a more recent request.

Aurora asked for proposals for this purchase and evaluated the companies that responded based on experience, references and capabilities, Director of Purchasing Jolene Coulter told aldermen at the October meeting. However, that’s as far as staff members go when exploring companies, and they don’t research a company’s history or background, she said.

Ald. Keith Larson, at-large, proposed switching vendors from Five Eight Group to LexisNexis at the Aurora City Council meeting on Dec. 9. LexisNexis is the larger and more established company, plus it already works with the Aurora Police Department, so it is the better choice, he said.

Larson had said at past meetings that he had moral concerns about Five Eight Group.

Price was the only difference between the two vendors’ offers, as the city’s purchasing department negotiated with LexisNexis to add more training to its proposal, bringing it in line with Five Eight Group’s offer, Aurora Police Cmdr. Bill Rowley said at the December meeting.

The Aurora City Council unanimously voted in favor of Larson’s proposed change, but then Larson still voted against the equipment’s purchase. The final vote passed 11–1.

City staff originally recommended buying the equipment from Five Eight Group in May, but it was put on hold so the purchase could be put out to bid. From those companies that responded to the bid, Five Eight Group was chosen for having the lowest responsible bid and, again, the purchase was proposed to the Aurora City Council’s Finance Committee at a meeting in late September.

After passing the Finance Committee for the second time, the proposed purchase did not immediately move to the next stop in the approval process, the Aurora City Council’s Committee of the Whole. Instead, it appeared on the meeting’s agenda two weeks after when it would typically have gone before that committee.

The proposal went before the full City Council in late October, but aldermen voted to again delay the purchase. Ald. Carl Franco, 5th Ward, said the drive test scanner was a good tool but that a committee should “look at this a little bit closer” given the allegations made earlier in the meeting.

In addition to what he said about the vendor, former alderman Lawrence also raised concerns that the device would be used to surveil residents’ cell phones, in particular by seeing whose cell phones are within a certain area, without needing a warrant. But Aurora Police Det. Darrell Moore previously told The Beacon-News that the device is not able to do that and has nothing to do with individual cell phones.

A police officer would actually be using the scanner to map out the range of cell towers in the area of an incident by driving around with the device in their vehicle to test where it connects to various nearby cell phone towers, according to Moore. He said this data can later be used in investigations to verify cell phone location information.

Police already have the ability to get a warrant and ask a suspect’s carrier to provide cell phone records showing when calls and texts were made, including which tower the cell phone was connected to at the time, Moore said. The Aurora Police Department also already has a mapping software showing the coverage area of local cell phone towers, so police can use the suspect’s cell phone records to estimate their location at the time of the incident being investigated, he said.

But sometimes there are questions about the accuracy of those coverage maps, Moore said, which is where the drive test scanner comes in because it can connect to those towers as if it was a cell phone itself. He said police want to verify the location data to make sure the most accurate information is taken to court and to be able to answer any challenges that may come up.

Ald. Larson said at the October meeting that he looked into the technology because of surveillance concerns and found it was something that cell phone carriers themselves use to map out signal strength.

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/aurora-city-council-chooses-alternate-vendor-for-police-equipment-over-concerns-about-lowest-bidder/ 

A Gary police officer shot a 20-year-old man during a service call Sunday afternoon, officials said.

Around 4 p.m. Sunday, officers responded to the 2100 block of Tennessee Street for a “potentially suicidal individual” who was “cutting himself,” Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez said in a release. When the arrived, he ran from the home.

Gary Police said in a statement that officers found the man two blocks east near 22nd Avenue and Ohio Street. The man was still holding a knife and “covered in blood.”

Police allege the man ran at an officer, ignored verbal warnings and didn’t drop the knife.

The officer shot the man, who was taken to a Chicago hospital. The officer has been placed on administrative leave pending the investigation’s outcome, police said. Neither the officer nor the man who was shot was identified.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the shooting.

“Situations involving mental health crises are deeply tragic and the balance of keeping the community safe can often be a delicate matter,” Gary Police Chief Derrick Cannon said in the release. “We understand the fragility involved in these moments and the profound impact they have on families and our community.”

mcolias@post-trib.com

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/man-20-wounded-in-gary-police-shooting-officials/ 

Political veteran George Cardenas has likely won his way back on the March Democratic primary ballot after resurrecting hundreds of petition signatures.

Cardenas, the former 12th Ward alderman and current commissioner on the county’s Board of Review, was 273 short of the 4,941 minimum signatures he needs to run for re-election after a county records review last month. It was a surprising shortfall for a fixture of Chicago politics well-acquainted with the cutthroat nature of petition gathering and nominating challenges.

The effort to boot Cardenas was launched by his Democratic opponent, Juanita Irizarry. Her team contended Cardenas came up far short and tried unsuccessfully to argue that the large number of duplicate signatures — including from one of Cardenas’ government staff — was indicative of a greater fraud.

Cardenas acknowledged those repeat signatures, which for a few individuals appeared 20 times, were inappropriate.

“I think that more training needs to be done with circulators, to be honest with you, on the dos and don’ts. Letting people sign without knowing that it doesn’t count, it’s wrong,” he told the Tribune.

Even so, he was heartened to be restored to the ballot.

“I was confident on the forensic evidence, it comes down to evidence, right?” Cardenas said. “Technicalities are used, I get it, it’s part of the game, it’s part of the process, but it all comes down to evidence and it comes down to, are the people real? And there were real people that signed those petitions.”

The three-member Board of Review is a quasi-judicial body that hears property tax assessment appeals and is supposed to be an independent arbiter of value.

Irizarry, a consultant who works with non-profits and housing organizations, said she is running “to make big corporations pay their fair share in property taxes and to deliver real relief for working families,” echoing criticism from Assessor Fritz Kaegi that the board favored business interests over residents.

Her campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. She has the endorsements of several progressive members of the Chicago City Council, Congress and the Cook County Board.

Cardenas said her contention that the board favors big building owners is misplaced. “When you correct systemic errors, you’re going to get the blame,” he said. “You’ve got to blame the system that you created: these assessments are flawed to begin with.”

Cardenas turned in nearly 12,000 signatures and launched a comeback legal battle to get hundreds of tossed objections restored. Over four days, his attorney presented affidavits from voters attesting their signatures were real and brought in a handwriting expert to compare the petition signature against voter registration files and affidavits.

Eventually, the hearing officer, Laura Jacksack, told attorneys for both sides to review the mountain of evidence and see what they agreed on. The attorneys reached consensus that about 600 signatures should be restored and another roughly 200 thrown out.

In the end, that put Cardenas above water by 129. Irizarry’s team said they had more evidence, but it wouldn’t be enough to get Cardenas kicked off the ballot.

Jacksack’s recommendation in Cardenas’ favor will be considered by the county’s electoral board on Friday.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/george-cardenas-safe-march-primary-ballots/