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Good afternoon, Chicago. A project manager for a Chicago-area construction company has been sentenced to two years of probation for his limited role in a scheme to bribe an employee of the Cook County assessor’s office, part of a larger corruption probe that also ensnared former 34th Ward Ald. Carrie Austin. In addition to the term of probation, John Bodendorfer, 58, of Chicago, must serve two months on home detention and pay a $5,000 fine, according to the sentence handed down Wednesday by U.S. District
Judge John Kness. Bodendorfer, a project manager at Summit-based Oakk Construction, pleaded guilty to conspiring with his boss, Oakk Construction owner Alex Nitchoff, to provide free home improvement materials and services to Lavdim
Memisovski, a then-commercial group leader at the Cook County assessor’s office. Here’s what else is happening today. And remember, for the latest breaking news in Chicago, visit chicagotribune.com/latest-headlines and sign up to get our alerts on all your devices. Subscribe to more newsletters | Asking Eric | Horoscopes | Puzzles & Games | Today in History news Jeff Bear walks through the audiobooks section at Northbrook Public Library on April 22, 2026. (Josh Boland/Chicago Tribune) Public libraries offer readers the chance to enter into worlds of horror through classics such as Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” or Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” But Illinois librarians say a real horror story haunts them: e-book and audiobook licensing. More top news stories: business First-level commercial space is topped by apartment units at a housing development Aug. 2, 2024, at the northwest corner of Cicero Avenue and 157th Street in Oak Forest. Oak Forest officials asked Bremen High School District 228 Tuesday to approve an extension for a tax increment financing district 13 years before the TIF is scheduled to expire. More top business stories: sports Cubs starting pitcher Matthew Boyd throws against the Phillies in the second inning at Wrigley Field on April 22, 2026, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) It’s the Cubs’ first streak of eight or more wins in the month of April since 1970. The Phillies, meanwhile, have lost eight straight, their longest skid since 2018. More top sports stories: eat. watch. do. Zayd Ayers Dohrn, a playwright and Northwestern University professor, stands near the Haymarket Memorial in the West Loop on April 9, 2026. Dohrn, the son of Bill
Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, the longtime Hyde Parkers and leaders of the militant activist group Weather Underground, used to take him to the Haymarket Memorial to illustrate the history of activism. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) “Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground” is Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s remarkable new history and memoir, an unsettling portrait of the idealism of one Chicago family. More top Eat. Watch. Do. stories: nation & world In this Sept. 15, 2015 file photo, marijuana plants with their buds covered in white
crystals called trichomes, are a few weeks away from harvest at the Ataraxia medical marijuana cultivation center in Albion, Ill.. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman) President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government. More top stories from around the world: | 
