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On the other end of the spectrum, Valencia Reasnover, who lives in South Shore with her two children and niece, all CPS students, just watched her daughter battle a difficult case of COVID-19 that she thinks was contracted at school. She believes classes should be remote until coronavirus numbers fall, and she has not sent her children back to school yet after break.
At Laurel Hill Elementary School in Hanover Park, music teacher Lynne Schefke,who normally works at Huff Elementary School in Elgin, high-fives student Angel Herrera in a dual language kindergarten classroom while working as a substitute on Jan. 4, 2022. A surge of COVID-19 cases forced Elgin-based Unit School District 46 to close five of its 57 schools because of staffing shortages, including Huff Elementary. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
In the letter, Lightfoot, citing the most recent information available from the sheriff’s office, said 3,400 people are currently released on electronic monitoring and that 2,300 have a “crime of violence” as their lead offense, including 90 accused of murder and 40 of attempted murder. The breakdown of charges also includes 1,480 gun possession cases, though most appear to include aggravating circumstances like being a felon in possession of a weapon.
A shopper makes a purchase Dec. 24 at the Sunnyside cannabis store at 2740 W. 75th St. in Naperville. If estimates from the mayor are correct, the city will collect about $1.7 million in sales tax revenue from pot sales in 2021. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush announces that he will not be running for reelection when his term ends next year after 30 years in Congress, Jan. 4, 2022. Rush, 75, made his announcement at Bronzeville’s Roberts Temple Church of God In Christ where the funeral for Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Mississippi, was held in 1955. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
Still, it was “surreal,” he said, when he and his wife, Quiante Hedrick, were on that stage themselves to pitch their company — Candi, a web platform that for a fee connects fans with celebrities and influencers for video chats. While they cannot discuss the results before the episode airs at 7 p.m. Friday on ABC, Keithan said it was an incredible experience being on the other side of the camera.
In any just world, Dan Snyder’s “clown show organization,” as Giants head coach Joe Judge would put it, would be heavily sanctioned, both for their negligence with the railing and their callousness towards the injured fans. In this one, the collapse will probably be a key plank of a successful lobbying campaign for the publicly funded new stadium Snyder has always wanted.
Clear Lake High School senior Emma Pingel uses an acetylene torch to weld steel plates together in her industrial-tech class, Dec. 1, 2021, in Clear Lake, Iowa. Pingel is taking her first industrial class this semester and is gaining skills in welding. She added that she jumped in without any prior knowledge, wanting basic understanding of how to weld for future use. (LISA GROUETTE – Globe Gazette/AP)
CTU’s House of Delegates, its 600-member governing body, is expected to vote on a resolution for members to teach from home from Wednesday until Jan. 18, unless an agreement with CPS is reached or the rate of Chicago COVID-19 cases decreases. If the House of Delegates approves the measure, electronic ballots would open up later Tuesday to the union’s 25,000 rank-and-file members.
But massive government spending — and eventually the rollout of vaccines — brought the economy back. Employers have added 18.5 million jobs since April 2020, still leaving the U.S. still 3.9 million jobs short of what it had before the pandemic. The December jobs report, out Friday, is expected to show that the economy generated almost 393,000 more jobs this month, according to a survey by the data firm FactSet.