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Fans wait out a rain delay during a baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers on home opening day, Monday, April 10, 2017, in Chicago.(AP Photo/David Banks)
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Tim Kanive waits out a rain delay during a baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers on home opening day, Monday, April 10, 2017, in Chicago.(AP Photo/David Banks)
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In this Feb. 13, 2005 photo, guitarist Lonnie Brooks performs with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble at the Simpson Theatre in the Field Museum in Chicago. Brooks, whose relationship with his adopted hometown was cemented by his hit recording of Robert Johnson's "Sweet Home Chicago," has died at age 83. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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Chicago Police Department Area Central Detective Commander Brendan Deenihan speaks during a news conference Wednesday, April 5, 2017, in Chicago. Police announced that Maurice Harris has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the fatal shootings of four men at or near a Chicago restaurant, on March 30, 2017. Harris who is charged in the likely gang-related killings of the four men on Chicago's South Side had lost his father in another shooting a day earlier in the same neighborhood. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)
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Boston Bruins' Ryan Spooner (51) celebrates with teammates Sean Kuraly (52) and Drew Stafford (19) after scoring a goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Chicago Blackhawks, Sunday, April 2, 2017, in Chicago.
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36th Ward Alderman Gilbert Villegas speaks at a gathering of Belmont Cragin Community residents and leaders, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in Chicago. Chicago activists and residents called for more transparency Tuesday as officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigate an agent-involved shooting that left a man wounded and raised questions about the use of force. (James Foster/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
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36th Ward Alderman Gilbert Villegas speaks at a gathering of Belmont Cragin Community residents and leaders, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in Chicago. Chicago activists and residents called for more transparency Tuesday as officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigate an agent-involved shooting that left a man wounded and raised questions about the use of force. (James Foster/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker holds up two bags of Haribo candy when announcing the German-based company would be building its first North American manufacturing plant in southeast Wisconsin not far from Chicago on Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)
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FILE – In this July 26, 2013, file photo, Charlene Carruthers, representing the Black Youth Project 100 in Chicago, protests outside Florida Gov. Rick Scott's office at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. A cluster of Black Lives Matter groups, including the Black Youth Project 100, and an organization leading the push for a $15-an-hour wage, Fight for $15, are joining forces for their first national joint action, planning "Fight Racism, Raise Pay" protests on the 49th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, April 4, 2017, in two dozen cities including Chicago. (AP Photo/Phil Sears, File)
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Vince Ziebarth, a Chicago high school teacher, isn't making any apologies after he says he was fired for refusing to teach a student who sat out the Pledge of Allegiance. (CBS Chicago)
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FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, Illinois Rep. Greg Harris, D-Chicago, speaks to reporters at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. Illinois health care experts said the state would face a $40 billion loss in federal Medicaid support under a health care overhaul proposed by congressional Republicans. Three state House committees heard testimony Thursday, March 16, 2017, in Springfield. Democratic state Rep. Harris of Chicago said a quarter of Illinois citizens receive Medicaid benefits and they could be affected. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2015, file photo, Kim Foxx, then a candidate for Cook County state's attorney, speaks at a news conference in Chicago. Foxx, the Chicago area's top prosecutor says her office is starting a new effort to target gun crimes in city neighborhoods and revamping a branch of her office that investigates possible wrongful convictions. State's Attorney Foxx said Wednesday, March 15, 2017 that attorneys from her office are teaming up with federal prosecutors in two police districts that have some of the highest violence rates.(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, photo, a patron of a Grand Crossing neighborhood car wash finishes off cleaning his car next to several Norfolk Southern train locomotives in Chicago. The 2015 heist of over 100 guns, preceded by one in 2014, and another last September from a Chicago rail yard highlight a tragic confluence. Chicago’s biggest rail yards are on the gang- and homicide-plagued South and West Sides where most of the city’s hundreds of killings happened last year. Residents near the yard are angry the multibillion-dollar railroad isn’t doing more to stop the thefts. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, photo, is a mural championing the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood of Chicago, where access to the Norfolk Southern rail yard goes unimpeded. The 2015 heist of over 100 guns, preceded by one in 2014, and another last September from a Chicago rail yard highlight a tragic confluence. Chicago’s biggest rail yards are on the gang- and homicide-plagued South and West Sides where most of the city’s hundreds of killings happened last year. Residents near the yard are angry the multibillion-dollar railroad isn’t doing more to stop the thefts. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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In this Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017, photo, spectators watch a match during the Windy City Open squash tournament in the historic Cathedral Room at the University Club of Chicago, in Chicago. The world's top professional squash players from 21 countries are competing through March 1, in Chicago, one of eight World Series tournaments annually. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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FILE- In this Feb. 24, 2017, file photo, Chance the Rapper takes watches an NBA basketball game between the Chicago Bulls and the Phoenix Suns in Chicago. Rauner and Grammy-winning artist Chance the Rapper plan to meet this week to discuss funding education in Chicago. The performer from Chicago, whose real name is Chancelor Bennett, said Monday, Feb. 27, on Twitter that he'll meet privately with Rauner on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
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Chicago's city council voted to name a street after convicted terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera. The former member of Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), spent 35 years in prison related to 29 bombings and weapons charges before former President Barack Obama granted him clemency. (ABC-7 Chicago screenshot)
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FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2017 file photo, Lorena Carvajal participates in a march and protest aimed at President Donald Trump's nationwide efforts to crack down on immigration in Chicago. As Trump moves ahead with an immigration crackdown, school principals in Chicago have been given a simple order: Do not let federal immigration agents in without a criminal warrant. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2017 file photo, a boy joins others participating in a protest and marching aimed at President Donald Trump's nationwide efforts to crack down on immigration in Chicago. As Trump moves ahead with an immigration crackdown, school principals in Chicago have been given a simple order: Do not let federal immigration agents in without a criminal warrant. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast File)
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In this Feb. 16, 2017 file photo, hundreds of people take part in a protest and march aimed at President Donald Trump's nationwide efforts to crack down on immigration in Chicago. As Trump moves ahead with a nationwide immigration crackdown, school principals in Chicago have been given a simple order: Do not let federal immigration agents in without a criminal warrant. (Maria Cardona/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
