Welcome to the Reader’s morning briefing for Monday, May 9, 2016.
Remembering the Christina Eilman case ten years later
It’s been ten years since Christina Eilman’s tragic trip to Chicago from her native California. After being arrested at a CTA station and spending a night in jail, the then-21-year-old was released by police into Englewood, where she was abducted, then fell or was pushed seven stories from a Robert Taylor Homes building. Eilman, who already suffered from mental illness, was left paralyzed and brain damaged. The city paid her family $22.5 million to settle a lawsuit in 2013. [Tribune] Remembering the Christina Eilman case ten years later
