Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Tuesday, August 23, 2016.
  • Skokie woman joins Trump’s National Hispanic Advisory Council

           GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has tapped Skokie resident and JCR Group founder Jovita Carranza for his National Hispanic Advisory Council, which     met with Trump Saturday in New York. Carranza was a Small Business Administration executive in George W. Bush’s administration and currently sits on the     Illinois Enterprise Zone Board. [Sun-Times]