| Good afternoon, Chicago. A judge sentenced a man to 20 years in prison today after he pleaded guilty to murder in the 2022 slaying of an 8-year-old girl who was shot while crossing the street with her mother in Little Village. Xavier Guzman pleaded guilty in 2023, but received his punishment after the case against his co-defendant, Emilio Corripio, 20, resolved with a guilty
plea in March. On Jan. 22, 2022, Melissa Ortega walked hand-in-hand with mother around West 26th Street
and South Pulaski Road when, according to prosecutors, Corripio fired shots after seeing a gang rival flash a hand sign. Corripio then got into a car driven by Guzman to buy sandwiches and drinks without “a care in the world,” prosecutors said at a 2022 hearing. Then 16 and on juvenile probation, Corripio was a self-admitted member of the Latin Kings who opened fire in broad daylight at rival Two-Six gang members. He hit
his target, but he also shot Melissa in the head. Subscribe to more newsletters | Asking Eric | Horoscopes | Puzzles & Games | Today in History news Photographers and reporters surround former Gov. George Ryan outside the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse after jurors found him guilty of corruption charges on April 17, 2006. (Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune) George Homer Ryan, a Republican whose 35-year public career spanned from local Kankakee County Board chairman, state legislator, Illinois House Speaker, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and ultimately Illinois’ 39th governor from 1999-2003, died today in a hospice in his hometown of Kankakee, said former Illinois House GOP leader Jim Durkin. More top news stories: business A shopping cart filled with groceries sits in an aisle at an Asian grocery store in Rowland Heights, Calif., Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) As communities around the state debate whether to replace the state’s soon-to-end grocery tax with one of their own, Elgin Mayor Dave Kaptain said he’s not in favor of the swap to fill the $1.2 million budget gap the tax loss will create. More top business stories: sports Pitcher Willie Foster is shown in an undated photo as part of a Negro Leagues exhibit at the Fort Wayne Ind., Main Library. Foster in 1926 headed the Chicago American Giants to a pennant with 26 wins. (Dean Musser Jr./The Journal Gazette) It was a long fight for Black baseball players to be treated with respect. We see the results of that battle for athletic equality today, and Chicago was involved in a turning point more than a century ago. More top sports stories: eat. watch. do. Denzel Washington, left, and Jake Gyllenhaal participate in the curtain call for the Broadway opening night of William Shakespeare’s “Othello” at the Barrymore Theatre on Sunday, March 23, 2025, in New York. (Photo by CJ Rivera/Invision/AP) Pity poor Jake Gyllenhaal. Rich, original and cliché-free, his riveting, Tony Award-worthy Iago was, in fact, as dynamic and distinctive a Shakespearean performance as Broadway has seen in years. And yet the show that surrounded him,
“Othello” starring Denzel Washington, was so otherwise dismal that Tony nominators could not see beyond the noise and confusion to find the one living, breathing reason to spend the big bucks at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. A cautionary tale: Do great work in a bad production and Tony nominators likely will pass you by. But the reverse can be true, too. More top Eat. Watch. Do. stories: nation & world A firefighting-equipped tug boat, left, contacted by the Malta Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) helps controlling a fire occurred on the bow of the Conscience vessel in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, May 2, 2025. (Malta Vessel Traffic Services) Drones attacked a vessel carrying aid to Gaza while it was in international waters off Malta today, the group organizing the shipment said. A fire broke out but was brought under control, according to authorities. More top stories from around the world: | 
