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Marriott human resources recruiter Mariela Cuevas, left, talks to Lisbet Oliveros, during a job fair at Hard Rock Stadium, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Last month, U.S. employers might have shed jobs for the first time in about a year, potentially raising alarms about the economy’s trajectory. Yet even if the January employment report coming Friday, Feb. 3, 2022, were to show a deep loss of jobs, there would be little mystery about the likely culprit: A wave of omicron wave of infections that led millions of workers to stay home sick, discouraged consumers from venturing out to spend and likely froze hiring at many companies — even those that want to fill jobs. (Marta Lavandier/AP)

“When it’s great and you’re able to be in the right spot, then you’re most likely going to be able to do a good job,” Vučević said. “When it’s not, you have to figure it out. That’s where it’s scramble mode. If I get beat, then another man is there. If a screen gets hit, then I’m there to help. It’s just covering for each other.”

The additional 128 beds would also free up that same number of beds at the often-packed University of Chicago Medical Center, making room for more patients with other complex needs, he said. The hospital is often nearly full now, and was frequently near capacity even before COVID-19, he said. That means the hospital must now often turn down requests to have patients transferred to it from other strained area hospitals, said University of Chicago Medical Center President Thomas Jackiewicz, in a letter to the head of the state Health Facilities and Services Review Board about the project.

Van Dyke’s release comes as Black leaders, as well as Illinois’ two Democratic senators, continue to pressure the U.S. Justice Department over a federal civil rights probe into the McDonald killing that ended quietly after Van Dyke was convicted in state court of second-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm. Van Dyke, who is white, was captured on police video shooting the Black teenager 16 times as he walked away from police with a knife.

“You don’t care about other black lives,” José Riesco, the deli owner’s brother, had said over a speaker outside the restaurant in a video posted to the owner’s Instagram. “You only care when it’s good for your worldview, when it’s good to help you sin, when it’s good to help you promote your wicked agenda of abortion, homosexuality and trying to take over this nation.”