Today, the Chicago Tribune announced that five women were killed yesterday morning in the Tinley Park massacre. Apparently, an armed man led the women into the back room of Lane Bryant, shot them, and left. There’s no news on a motive yet.
 
Police think that the five murders could have resulted from a robbery gone wrong.
 
The identity of one of the victims emerged today– Carrie Hudek Chiuso, 33, of Frankfort. She was a social worker at Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School.
 
She was associated with peer mediation at Homewood-Flossmoor, described on the school’s website as “a process for non-confrontational resolution of disputes and conflicts in which a third party (parties) acts as a moderator for the process. In mediation, the goal is to work out differences constructively.”
 
Perhaps the guilty party could have used someone like Chiuso in his life when he went to school.
 
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Photo by Kenn Christ
 
 
 
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it’s a sport. In Chicago not only your vote counts, but all kinds of other votes–kids, dead folks, and so on.
 
~Dick Gregory, Dick Gregory’s Political Primer, 1972
 
Just something to mull over before you slap that “I Voted Today!” sticker on your parka.