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“While we take great pride in our workforce, I know that we have failed too many of our staff and eroded trust with the community,” Escareño said at Wednesday’s meeting. “This will not be tolerated. This moment requires action, change, reform and vision.”

Marzena Przeszlo, a staff chaplain in pastoral care services at the University of Illinois Hospital leads daily music and prayer for healthcare workers and patients at the hospital. After years comforting patients, like many chaplains, she has found herself increasingly supporting exhausted and struggling staff during the pandemic, from dispensing communion to, on a recent weekday morning, strumming a rendition of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love” as nurses sang along and her Toms shoes tapped the hospital floor.

“We’re going to have experienced starters in Lucas (Giolito) and Lance (Lynn), Dallas (Keuchel) and (Dylan) Cease, guys who have already had full years under their belts,” Sox general manager Rick Hahn said Tuesday at the GM Meetings at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa. “So we’re not going to be looking at (Kopech) as coming in and giving us 200 (innings) next year. We’re going to try to get him as consistently strong as possible throughout the entire season, because he was a little stronger in the first half (of 2021) than the second.

Another 5,044 new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases were reported by state health officials Wednesday, the most in a single day since Sept. 10. Over the past week, the state has averaged 3,122 cases per day, a 41% increase from the previous week and the highest level since late September, when the late-summer surge driven by the highly contagious delta variant was subsiding.

Agin and other residents have rushed through the moving process — finding movers, locating new apartments — in five days. The seven-story building, at 930 North Boulevard in the west suburb, was in the process of being renovated into apartments with higher rent. Agin was planning to leave when his lease was up in June, but not like this.

In its response to Griffin’s comments, Pritzker’s camp, as it did following the Economic Club event last month, referred to Griffin’s support of Rauner, whose unsuccessful anti-union agenda clashed with Democratic lawmakers, leading to a record-setting two-year budget standoff that helped decimate social services including funding for violence prevention.

Members of Fraternal Order of Police and supporters rally outside of City Hall Oct 25. After a judge’s ruling that the city must arbitrate the vaccine deadline for city workers with the FOP, nearly two dozen other unions have now filed their own legal challenge. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners President Avis LaVelle speaks during a press conference addressing claims of sexual misconduct by park district beaches and pools employees and an independent report on the district’s handling of sexual misconduct claims conducted by the Arnold & Porter Law Firm on Nov. 2, 2021, at Jesse White Park in Chicago. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)

University officials said they “have been in close contact with Mayor (Lori) Lightfoot, Chicago Police Department Superintendent (David) Brown and other members of the Mayor’s team, along with local aldermen,” regarding public safety strategies for Hyde Park and nearby communities.

Then 17 and living in Antioch, Rittenhouse fired the shots while patrolling downtown Kenosha with an AR-15-style rifle amid the turmoil and unrest surrounding the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white police officer. Despite not being old enough to openly carry a gun, Rittenhouse said he volunteered to act as an armed guard that night after businesses had been burned and vandalized during demonstrations held the previous day.