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Risley, who has worked as an investigator under Pope, was not one of two candidate recommended by the search committee, but the ethics commission agreed to interview him after Hartzler and another recommended candidate failed to win the support of a majority of members, said state Rep. Maurice West, a Rockford Democrat who sits on the panel.

“The young guys come out, they’re eager, they need to learn, they need to be taught. Here, they already know how to play, you just have to manage them, have conversations with them: What he sees, what I see, whether it’s Kane or even (Ryan) Carpenter or JJ (Jujhar Khaira) or whoever it is. The conversations are a little bit different.”

A vintage, six-bedroom, 10,000-square-foot Astor Street mansion on the Gold Coast sold for $6.5 million on Jan. 5, 2022 — more than $1.3 million below its $7.87 million asking price. – Original Credit: Cook County Assessor (Cook County Assessor / HANDOUT)

The Walgreens logo on the front of a store, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, in Cambridge, Mass. COVID-19 vaccines and testing boosted Walgreens store sales growth to its highest level in more than two decades, as the drugstore chain beat fiscal first-quarter expectations, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. (Charles Krupa/AP)

“When COVID first started, there was a lot of judgment about those who were getting sick,” said Sheehan Fisher, a psychologist and assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Now, he said, as vaccinated people who followed regulations test positive or feel sick, “They fear that others assume that they are not following the regulations.”