| Good afternoon, Chicago. Nora and Gary Facko got the news their son was shot and killed by the Palos Hills Police Department about 10 hours after he died Feb. 15, they said. “He was shot about 4:20 in the morning, and we didn’t get any call until
about 2 o’clock from the police,” Gary Facko said. “He died at the hospital. We could’ve got there and maybe seen him.” Now, the parents of Gerhardt Facko, 37, are calling for more information regarding the circumstances of his death. “Our lives will never be the same,” Nora Facko said. “Every day, I
swear to God, he called me at 3 o’clock. Every day, coming home from work he would call me.” 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 A passenger looks at two masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who stand
just inside a passenger exit area in Terminal 1 at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on March 23, 2026. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune) The federal government has deployed scores of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to O’Hare International Airport in the midst of an ongoing partial government shutdown, and agents were seen today milling around the airport terminals. More top news stories: business A Water Tower Place condominium owned by billionaire couple Renee and Lester Crown was listed on March 22 for $5.5 million. (Mikel Pickett/VHT) Long the patriarch of one of Chicago’s most prominent business and civic families, Lester Crown, 100, is known for continuing to run his family’s building materials company, Material Service Corp., well into the 21st century. More top business stories: sports White Sox catcher Reese McGuire throws to first base for an out against the Mariners on April 14, 2022, at Guaranteed Rate Field. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) The Sox signed Reese McGuire, 31, to a one-year, $1.2 million contract yesterday. With Kyle Teel sidelined four to six weeks because of a right hamstring strain, McGuire joins Edgar Quero as options behind the plate. More top sports stories: eat. watch. do. Miles Davis with his trumpet during a studio recording session in October 1959. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Miles Davis may have
been one of the world’s most celebrated jazz bandleaders at the time, but he didn’t know what to expect — I mean, really didn’t know what to expect — when his “second great quintet” arrived in Chicago for a late December 1965 engagement at the Plugged Nickel club in Old Town. More top Eat. Watch. Do. stories: nation & world A Port Authority firetruck lays on its side just off the runway at LaGuardia Airport, March 23, 2026, after colliding with an Air Canada jet shortly after it landed in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) A jet landing at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport collided with a fire truck on the runway, killing the pilot and copilot and injuring several others. Here’s what you need to know. More top stories from around the world: | 
