| Good afternoon, Chicago. When a driver hit and killed two women pushing a baby boy in a stroller in Winnetka on Friday, Mudassir Rashid and other family members were left in shock. His wife, Sediqeh “Asra” Samadi, 37, of Kenilworth, a chemical engineer who worked at Abbott Labs, was one of the victims. The other was her mother, Saeideh Sigari, a 58-year-old teacher who was visiting from Iran and had been excited to meet her only grandson for the first time. Samadi and Rashid’s 4-month-old son, Yusuf, who was in the stroller, has been hospitalized at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge in critical condition, said Rashid, an assistant professor and director of the pharmaceutical engineering program at Illinois Institute of Technology,
also called Illinois Tech, in Chicago. 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 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tours a regional HSI facility in Springfield to observe the processing of two Guatemalan nationals, May 7, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) Kristi Noem’s event was held near where Emma Shafer, a 24-year-old community organizer, was stabbed to death in July 2023. The alleged killer, who Noem said was in the U.S. illegally at the time of the crime, remains at large. More top news stories: business Steam pours from US Steel Gary Works across the street from Gary City Hall during a press
conference concerning the potential acquisition of the company by Japanese company Nippon Steel, on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune) U.S. Sen. Jim Banks, R-Indiana, and Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, have sent a joint letter to the U.S. Department of Treasury, asking for the nation’s owned and operated steel industry to be preserved. More top business stories: sports The Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo tries to get past the Bulls’ Torrey Craig on Nov. 20, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) Giannis Antetokounmpo is a nine-time All-Star and two-time MVP who averaged 30.4 points and 11.9 rebounds per game for the Milwaukee Bucks this season. More top sports stories: eat. watch. do. Author Walter Podrazik lies on the couch at the Bob Newhart sculpture on Navy Pier in
Chicago with a copy of his book “Watching TV: American Television Season by Season,” on April 29, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune) They were young wide-eyed students when they met at Northwestern University. Walter Podrazik was from Bridgeport and Harry Castleman from Boston and it did not take them long to discover that they shared a passion for The Beatles. More top Eat. Watch. Do. stories: nation & world Cardinals adjust their mitre hats during a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter’s Basilica before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave starting today to elect a successor to Pope Francis. More top stories from around the world: | 
