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“Throughout this reporting period, the (independent monitor) repeatedly requested the city and the CPD provide an explanation regarding what transpired with the foot pursuit dashboard data, including what led to the data issues,” the report read. “To date, we still do not have many of these answers, and have only received partial explanations regarding the scope of the data issues and plans ahead.”

Crews from Peoples Gas and KS Energy Services connect individual homes to a new gas main that’s been recently installed in the Montclare neighborhood on Chicago’s Northwest Side on Oct. 14, 2021. The work is part of the utility’s $7.7 billion pipeline replacement program to replace 2,000 miles of aging iron pipes below Chicago streets. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)

“Yeah, there’s nothing really we could do,” Donovan said. “It’s just part of the NBA season the last couple years, just because everybody is dealing with it. We’re not the only team. Philadelphia has had to deal with it, different teams have had to deal with it, and we may have to deal with it. Outside of (Vučević), he’s the only guy in protocols. Outside of that everybody else has been cleared to play.”

Mather High School senior Marques Watts outside his home in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood on Nov. 6, 2021. Watts is a youth leader of Communities United, a survivor-led, grassroots, intergenerational, racial justice organization. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)

Still, school officials say despite Illinois classrooms being fully reopened for in-person learning this fall, the pandemic is far from over, and academic recovery efforts continue to be hampered by students in quarantine, hiring challenges and educators who are already exhausted, just two months into the new school year.

For 10 years, the majority of TV and movie projects in Chicago have been filmed at Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, the soundstage complex in North Lawndale. On Friday TPG Real Estate Partners, the real estate arm of the private equity firm TPG, announced plans to acquire Cinespace, the family-run business where the Dick Wolf shows for NBC film.

Gruden’s move to sue the league is perhaps unsurprising. He was the only person to lose his job in the sprawling investigation into workplace sexual abuse and misconduct at the Washington Football Team, and indeed the only person in the league to have his emails published. As an ESPN employee between 2011 and 2018, Gruden was swapping caveman emails with WFT president Bruce Allen and businessmen like the founder of Hooters.

Someone from a neighboring business alerted police to the crime in progress, and the thieves entered an adjoining dealership, police said. As the first officer arrived, the vehicles fled, nearly striking the police car. For safety reasons, the police decided to not give chase.

“A lot of different things going (on) this first month of the year, could’ve been easy — with the coaching change — to not play as hard or with as much energy,” Kane said. “But it seemed like it really lit a fire under us, and the last couple games is the most energy you’ve seen out of our team.

Also charged were a number of store employees, including Waleed Khrawish, also known as “Wally,” 34, of Melrose Park, who worked at a convenience store in Melrose Park; Alaa Hamdan, 35, of Chicago, who worked at Supermercado El Grande in Addison; Ersely Arita-Mejia, 39, of Arlington Heights, who worked at Star Mini Market in Mt. Prospect; Fortino Hernandez, 38, of Addison, who worked at Supermercado El Grande in Addison; Jehad Khrawish 24, of Chicago, who worked at a convenience store in Melrose Park; and Marisol Zavala, 29, of McHenry, who worked at a convenience store in Elgin.