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Chicago firefighters work on a two-alarm church fire in the 4500 block of North Spaulding Ave in the Albany Park neighborhood on Wednesday Feb. 23, 2022. This is the second fire this week in Albany Park. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune) (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
“Even though we are seeing some increases in vaccination rates, our vaccination rates vary so much across our community or city across our schools. And so we want to make sure that we just continue to be extra conservative, extra safe, but we will continue again to monitor and to consult,” Martinez said. “… This is not going to be a decision that’s done alone. But again, we just want to be sensitive to the fact that we still have a lot of our staff, a lot of our parents that are very anxious.”
The suit says that on Sept. 16, 2014, when the boy was 12 years old, another student attacked him in a bathroom at Jordan Community Elementary School in the Rogers Park neighborhood. The boy suffers from “severe physical, developmental and learning disabilities,” according to the suit.
At the Feb. 22 Skokie Village Board meeting, Janet Kaplan of Skokie urged the Village Board not to give final approval to clear the way for a Carvana 14-story glass building to be built next to the Harms Woods Forest Preserve. Many who spoke against the project feared the building’s glass curtain wall would kill birds. (Brian L. Cox / Pioneer Press)
At the Feb. 22 Skokie Village Board meeting, Janet Kaplan of Skokie urged the Village Board not to give final approval to clear the way for a Carvana 14-story glass building to be built next to the Harms Woods Forest Preserve. Many who spoke against the project feared the building’s glass curtain wall would kill birds. (Brian L. Cox / Pioneer Press)
Brian Hohmann, mechanic and owner of Accurate Automotive, in Burlington, Mass., attaches a diagnostics scan tool, center left, to a vehicle and a laptop computer, below, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, in Burlington. The diagnostics scan tool sends information from the vehicle’s computer to the laptop so a mechanic can view information about the vehicle’s performance. Hohmann said most independent shops are perfectly capable of competing with dealerships on both repair skills and price as long as they have the information and software access they need. (Steven Senne/AP)
A pressman grabs a freshly printed paper off the press at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s printing facility in Maryland Heights, Mo. in this Nov. 11, 2008 file photo. The Post-Dispatche’s owner, Lee Enterprises efforts to repel a hostile takeover got a boost when a judge ruled the newspaper publisher could ignore two director nominations from the Alden Global Capital hedge fund. But Alden said it will press the fight by urging shareholders to reject two of Lee’s nominees for the board. (Jeff Roberson/AP)
People look at the charging technology from the Jeep Wrangler 4xe at the Stellantis booth during the CES tech show Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, in Las Vegas. Automaker Stellantis said Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022 that it made 13.4 billion euros ($15.2 billion) in its first year after it was formed from the merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Group. (Joe Buglewicz/AP)
Illinois state Sen. Thomas E. Cullerton leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse after pleading not guilty, Aug. 16, 2019, in federal court to embezzlement charges alleging he pocketed almost $275,000 in salary and benefits from the Teamsters union despite doing little or no work. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
The Ralph family, from left, Molly, 12, Jeff, Emily, 9, and Randi at their Vernon Hills home on Feb. 15, 2022. The family converted their dining room into a schoolroom to facilitate remote learning for Molly and Emily during the pandemic. Jeff and Randi are interested in selling the home and are debating whether to keep the room as it is or to covert it back to a dining room. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)