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At the time of the shooting, Wilson was seventeen years old and had just started his senior year at Simeon. As a junior, he had led the Simeon Wolverines basketball team to the Illinois Class AA state championship, and over the summer he was given the honor of being ranked as the best high school player in the entire nation.
James Carter Pankow (born August 20, 1947) is an American trombone player, songwriter, and brass instrument arranger who is a founding member of the rock band Chicago. [2] He is best known for his brass arrangements, and for being one-third of Chicago's brass/woodwind section alongside Lee Loughnane and Walter Parazaider.
After the release of a self-titled debut album in April 1969, the band shortened its name to simply Chicago after receiving a threat of legal action from the Chicago Transit Authority. [1] The group's lineup remained stable for over ten years and released a series commercially and critically successful albums.
The amateur video footage of the beating, obtained by Chicago television station WFLD, was widely broadcast in both traditional and online media. [8] Largely resulting from the widespread circulation of this video, the story attracted much national attention within the United States, leading President Barack Obama to send U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ...
Our Lady of the Angels was a grammar school comprising kindergarten through eighth-grade education. It was located at 909 North Avers Avenue in the Humboldt Park area of Chicago's West Side, on the northeast corner of West Iowa Street and North Avers Avenue (some sources describe the school as "in Austin"). [3]
Louis Edward Satterfield (April 3, 1937 – September 27, 2004) was an American bassist and trombonist.Satterfield was a member of both The Pharaohs and the Phenix Horns.He also collaborated with prominent artists such as Earth, Wind & Fire, Muddy Waters, Phil Collins, B. B. King, The Emotions, Ramsey Lewis, The Whispers and The Gap Band.
Former Princeton football player Tiger Bech was among those killed in a terrorist attack in New Orleans on Wednesday, both his brother and former high school athletic director confirmed. He was 28.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. [1] Priester attended Chicago's DuSable High School, where he studied under Walter Dyett.In his teens he played with blues and R&B artists such as Muddy Waters, and Bo Diddley, [1] and had the opportunity to jam with jazz players such as the saxophonist Sonny Stitt.