<p>Slain Chicago police Officer John Bartholomew was remembered Friday as a man who was "truly loved by all" and whose "heart was pure."</p><p>Hundreds of mourners, among them police, officials and loved ones, gathered at St. Andrew's Greek Orthodox Church in Edgewater to say their final farewells to Bartholomew, who was shot and killed <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/04/25/officers-reportedly-injured-shooting-chicago-swedish-hospital-lincoln-square" target="_blank" >April 25 at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital</a>. A robbery suspect who Bartholomew and his partner had brought to the hospital is accused of opening fire inside a CT room, killing Bartholomew and critically wounding his partner, who Chicago's top cop said Friday is improving but has "a long way to go" in his recovery.</p><p>Bartholomew’s brother, James Bartholomew, said emotions were heavy and losing his brother was like “being frozen in time.”</p><p>“He wasn’t only my brother, he was my best friend.

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sam Sianis, legendary owner of the Billy Goat Tavern, died Friday from natural causes at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital. He was 91.</p><p>"My dad was always a person who lit up the room when he walked in, always in a good mood," said Mr. Sianis' son Bill Sianis, who, along with his brother Paul Sianis, has operated the family tavern since their father mostly retired about a decade ago.</p><p>"I think he became a part of Chicago because of how he was, a hard working person but also with a big heart," Bill Sianis said.

<p>During an annual week celebrating nurses across the U.S, nearly 3,000 nurses at Endeavor Health in the Chicago area are working to unionize over pay cuts and what they say are unsafe working conditions.</p><p>While the effort has been quietly building for about a year, now nurses are openly organizing at work and have launched a public campaign on Instagram under the name teamsternurses. That’s a nod to the Teamsters Local 743, the union that would represent them.</p><p>“Once upon a time the nurses of North Shore were HAPPY,” one post on Instagram reads. “It was not long ago they were even called HEROES.