Police seeking parents of baby dropped off at hospital
A baby boy, believed to be 9 months old, was dropped off at a hospital Tuesday afternoon in the Far South Side Roseland neighborhood and Chicago Police are trying to find the parents.
Elijah Coid, or Coyd, was dropped off at Roseland Community Hospital at 45 W. 111th St. by a woman who was not a family member, according to a community alert from Chicago Police.
Elijah is described as a 26- inch, 25- pound black baby with medium complexion, black hair and brown eyes, police said. He was wearing a white T- shirt and khaki pants.
A family member, who is not one of the boy’s parents, came forward, but has not been given custody of the baby, according to a police source.
Elijah has been placed in the care of the Department of Children and Family Services, which placed him in a foster home, according to a spokeswoman for the agency.
Anyone with information should call ( 312) 747- 8274.
Francesca Gattuso
Hearing Thursday on order to stop county soda tax
Legal efforts by the Illinois Retail Merchants Association to stop Cook County’s new sweetened beverage tax from taking effect Saturday were delayed another day.
Arguments on whether to issue a temporary restraining order will be heard Thursday before Judge Carl Walker. A hearing had been scheduled for Wednesday before Cook County Judge James McGing, but he recused himself. The case now will be heard by Walker at 2: 30 p. m. Thursday.
The retail merchants group filed the lawsuit Tues- day in an effort to stop the tax, which is set to go into effect July 1. Rachel Hinton
City Colleges seeks to sell downtown headquarters
City Colleges wants to move employees out of its Loop headquarters and unload the 14- story building, hoping for windfall sales price in what it calls a “robust” downtown market.
“This sale is a no- brainer from a financial and strategic standpoint,” Chancellor Juan Salgado said in a news release. “By co- locating central staff at our colleges, they will have greater exposure to our students and will be able to serve them better.”
Though Salgado said the administration will move staff into other space downtown, the intent is to shift more central- office jobs out to the individual college campuses, such as Kennedy- King College in Englewood and Dawson Technical Institute in Bronzeville. In all, City Colleges has seven colleges and five satellites.
The headquarters building, at 226 W. Jackson Blvd. across from the Willis Tower, is about one- third occupied.
Sun- Times Staff
Illinois tells court it can’t pay much more for Medicaid
A lawyer has told a federal judge in a civil case surrounding billions of dollars in unpaid Medicaid bills that trying to squeeze money out of Illinois as it heads into a third year without a budget is like trying to squeeze “blood out of a stone.”
His comments came at a hearing Wednesday in Chicago on a request from Medicaid recipients that Judge Joan Lefkow order Illinois to pay $ 1 billion a month to ensure care for the poor and others isn’t jeopardized. Illinois would pay half and federal funds would match that.
State attorney Brent Stratton said Illinois can’t come close to finding a spare $ 500 million. He said it could pay $ 150 million at best, half paid by federal funds. AP