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Patti Beck from Howmet Aerospace (center) takes a resume from Alexa Parker (right) during a job fair featuring 23 area manufactures that was put on by the Northwest Indiana Workforce Board and Center of Workforce Innovations at the Avalon Manor in Hobart, on Oct. 27, 2021. (John Smierciak/Post Tribune) (John Smierciak / Post-Tribune)

Heather Mack is mobbed by reporters as she arrives in the courtroom for her sentencing hearing at a district court in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, on April 21, 2015. Mack, who served more than seven years in an Indonesian prison for killing her mother at a luxury resort in Bali was indicted on federal murder conspiracy charges and taken into custody by FBI agents at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on Nov. 3, 2021. (Firdia Lisnawati/AP/AP)

Several allies of U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, the Chicago Democrat who is the state’s lone Latino congressman, also have expressed interest in the race including state Sen. Omar Aquino of Chicago, Eira Corral Sepulveda, a Metropolitan Water Reclamation District commissioner, and state Rep. Delia Ramirezstate Rep. Delia Ramirezstate Rep. Delia Ramirezstate Rep. Delia Ramirez, a Chicago Democrat.

When jurors walked by Rittenhouse after the judge called a recess to allow him to regain his composure, many looked up at him in apparent sympathy as he continued to cry. On a courtroom bench across the room and within earshot of the jurors, Rittenhouse’s mother, Wendy Rittenhouse, sobbed loudly.

“It just really has to do with just the change of seasons,” Borchardt said of the huge variations Chicago is seeing this week. “You get these bigger dynamic weather systems that are able to pull in warmer temperatures from the south or colder temperatures from the north. And that seasonal transition is just far more prone to seeing these wild swings.”

You should reach out to the person safely, the Canadian Women’s Foundation says — and that doesn’t necessarily mean calling authorities. Reaching out safely could mean calling the person and asking questions that can be answered with “yes” or “no,” to reduce the risk to them if someone is listening to their conversations. Or you may want to contact them over text, email or a messaging app, asking broad questions in case their devices are being monitored.