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Erin Galfer, who was principal there before taking on a different role in CPS, was recently fired. Last month Galfer, through her attorney, told the Tribune she was “wrongly terminated” and that CPS “long knew about the misconduct and did not take timely steps to protect the students.”
Star guard Zach LaVine returned to practice along with teammates Devon Dotson, Matt Thomas, Ayo Dosunmu and Alize Johnson. DeMar DeRozan, Derrick Jones Jr., Coby White, Javonte Green and Troy Brown Jr. were cleared to return to play within the last week.
“As we have done since the onset of the pandemic, we continue to evaluate our policies and procedures related to COVID-19 based on the most current information,” said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. “Circumstances have clearly changed since our interrupted game policy was implemented in August and this updated approach is intended to support healthy, fair and equitable competition.”
Deon Williams, center left, and Diamond Williams, center right, sisters of Shermetria Williams, release balloonsd with others during a vigil, June 16, 2021, for Shermetria who was among four people killed the previous day in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
Vince Patton, a new Tesla owner, demonstrates on Dec. 8, 2021, on a closed course in Portland, Ore., how he can play video games on the vehicle’s console while driving. Under pressure from U.S. auto safety regulators, Tesla has agreed to stop allowing video games to be played on center touch screens while its vehicles are moving. (Gillian Flaccus/AP)
“On the offensive line, we can get aggressive and do it the clean way,” Ifedi said. “In that moment, in any moment down 14 (points) and you’re trying to move the ball, (it hurts). We hadn’t been finishing drives at that point. Now you get behind the sticks and there are no plays in the playbook that can account for second-and-22. … I love the aggression. I love the passion he plays with. And I love the kid. But in the future, we don’t want to get those penalties.
F.T. Wetzel, 82, of 3641 N. Kedvale Ave., rides down a street in Chicago in his prized possession, a horse and sleigh more than 20 years old in February 1939. Cars had taken over the road from the days when horses and sleighs ruled the winter streets. Editor’s note: This historical print has some hand-painting on it. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)
Lightford, the Democratic senate majority leader and the second highest-ranking senator in the General Assembly, was in a vehicle with her husband, Eric McKennie, when they were carjacked at about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday. The couple was in the near west suburb to drop off a friend, police have said.
A sign is seen in the Begyle taproom in Chicago on Dec. 21, 2021. During a surge in COVID-19 cases, the Begyle taproom is temporarily closed until all staffers can be tested for the virus. Begyle is still selling orders to go. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Built by homebuilder BGD&C in 2012, the mansion has seven bathrooms, two fireplaces, oversized windows, French doors, a walnut-paneled study, a butler’s pantry, a kitchen with a breakfast bar that seats five, and a primary bedroom suite with a his-and-hers walk-in closet area and a bathroom that features Calacatta marble. On the lower level are a guest suite, a recreation room, a fitness studio, a gift wrap room and an office.