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Flores, a New York native, played linebacker at Boston College and started his coaching career with the New England Patriots as a scouting assistant in 2004 before becoming a pro scout in 2006. He went on to be a coaching assistant (2008-09), an offensive assistant and special teams coach (2010), a defensive assistant (2011), safeties coach (2011-15) and linebackers coach (2016-18). He was a part of four Super Bowl winning teams and called defensive plays in 2018.

The mandate requires submission of proof of vaccination for individuals 5 years of age or older to enter indoor “covered locations” such as restaurants, bars, coffee shops, gyms, fitness centers, movie theaters, concert venues, sports arenas, bowling alleys, etc. However, the order expressly excludes from the definition of “covered locations” all locations in residential or office buildings, the use of which is limited to owners, residents or tenants of that building.

He does so compelling, taking us from his early years growing up in Houston, with a colorful, loving and talented Jewish family; through his college years at Brandeis University, where his classmates called him “Tex”; medical school back in Texas; an internship in San Francisco, where he lived with another student and a pet spider monkey named Fang; residency in New York City; a stint in the U.S. Air Force in England; marriage to Valerie Dewar Searle Lewis who, after nearly 50 years together, he still continues to “strive to be worthy of”; and, finally, to Chicago, where he would work for the Sox and Bulls, be orthopedic surgeon at the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute, chief of staff at NorthShore University HealthSystem at Skokie Hospital and teacher of the year at Rush University Medical Center.

Casey Gallagher, 10, raises her hand in math class at St. Benedict Catholic School on Jan. 12, 2022, on Chicago’s North Side. The Archdiocese of Chicago’s elementary and high schools were busy fielding phone calls from parents this week, frustrated by the latest Chicago Public Schools versus Chicago Teachers Union standoff, hoping to enroll their children in one of the city’s Catholic schools. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)

Dr. Justin Fiala, assistant professor of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, works on an oil painting depicting hospital employees in scrubs riding a bus to work in his art studio on Jan. 9, 2022, in Chicago. Fiala has been working on the paining for two months and anticipates the painting to take at least two more months to complete. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)