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Global liquor producer Diageo invested $110 million in a new canning facility it opened March 1, 2022, in Plainfield, which will add 50 jobs to the company’s roughly 600-person workforce southwest of Chicago. The plant is expected to produce 25 million cases annually of ready-to-drink cocktails, which have gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Diageo / HANDOUT)
Ezike’s assistant director, Amaal Tokars, will take over as interim director. Tokars, who is not a medical doctor, has a Ph.D. in leadership and policy from Northern Illinois University and previously worked for the Kendall County Health Department and as president of the Northern Illinois Public Health Consortium.
Swain says the 7th-annual event is enhancing the festival experience with live performances by artists, including Busta Rhymes, Marsha Ambrosius, BJ the Chicago Kid and Lupe Fiasco. DJ performances will include DJ Jazzy Jeff of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” fame, Terry Hunter, Jay Illa, Mike P, Mustafa Rocks and Deejay Alicia. More artists will be announced in coming weeks. Swain said getting the artists on the lineup wasn’t a tough sell, as many had heard about the fest.
The airport wants to build a road through the Bell Bowl Prairie, one of the last remaining places in the state where prairie exists much as it did 8,000 years ago. Conservationists are fighting the road in the name of rare plants and animals found on the 5-acre stretch of land, including the federally endangered rusty patched bumblebee.
“Since [OIG’s period of analysis], the Department has made great strides in Use of force and Procedural Justice training and has revised numerous policies including, but not limited to, the entire Use of force suite of orders. In fact, the Department has achieved preliminary compliance on the use of force paragraphs in the Consent Decree,” the police department told the inspector general’s office.
“It’s always nice when you’re going to a match, you’re not (thinking), ‘Who do I have? Who do I have?’ … The young kids have done a good job, it’s not easy an easy position for those guys. Some of them maybe should’ve been playing more games down in Rockford in a perfect world, so they get those reps.”
Duncan, 57, runs Chicago CRED, a nonprofit aimed at violent prevention. Before that, Duncan served as President Barack Obama’s education secretary and CEO of Chicago Public Schools. He has been considering a run for months but ruled it out today, saying in a statement, “I am exactly where I need to be, doing the work I love.”
The driver, Jarett Astin Rivera, 31, of Indianapolis, is facing seven charges including felony resisting law enforcement (prior conviction); felony resisting law enforcement; felony possession of legend drug and felony obstruction of justice. Rivera was also charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana, possession of paraphernalia and reckless driving.
White collar crimes are extremely difficult to detect, because the perpetrator will try to hide any paper trail, as in this case, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said. He credited the “painstakingly thorough investigation” of Ken Tatarelis, supervisor of the office’s public integrity/financial crimes division, and with Itasca police Officer Katlyn Jezior.
Amanda Cisneros-Elacio, 20, of the 800 block of East Old Willow Road, was taken into custody Monday on a warrant for leaving the scene of an accident causing death, the sheriff’s office said. She is charged in the Oct. 9 death of Wojciech Glowik, 22, of Glenview.