Author: staff
File – Members of the United Auto Workers strike outside of a John Deere plant, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, in Ankeny, Iowa. About 10,000 UAW workers across several states are voting Wednesday on the agricultural machine giant’s third contract offer. (Charlie Neibergall/AP)
Customers wait in the double-lane drive-thru on Nov. 8, 2021, at Culver’s newest location in Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood. The double drive-thru is one of the strategies the restaurant is using to speed up orders. (Raquel Zaldivar / Chicago Tribune)
Amy Avila, a student nurse anesthetist, works on an intricate anatomy drawing of the brain that she creates while studying on Nov. 16, 2021, at her Highland Park home. The drawings have been used for coloring by hospital workers to reduce stress. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
The Rams have a new distraction who could be spuriously blamed for their quarterback’s suddenly shaky performance. No, not that one: Matt Stafford’s wife threw a soft pretzel at a 49ers fan, making Kelly Stafford possibly the best passer in her family right now. The fan started heckling Kelly during the Rams’ ugly 31-10 loss to the Niners on Monday night, according to TMZ.
Demonstrations have been low-key throughout the trial, but they began to intensify as the jury deliberated. At one point, a group on the courthouse steps chanted “Black Lives Matter,” while a man on a bullhorn needled them about Joseph Rosenbaum, one of the men Rittenhouse killed, being a convicted sex offender.
Presta, a Democrat first elected mayor in 2013, was charged last year with accepting an envelope with $5,000 cash in March 2019 from Omar Maani, an executive at clout-heavy red light camera company SafeSpeed LLC. Maani was actually cooperating with the FBI and the entire exchange was caught on an undercover camera.
“If everyone is vaccinated except the littlest kids and the littlest kids are all from the same family, and visiting with grandparents, that’s a reasonably safe situation,” she said. “It’s the mixing of unvaccinated, or partially unvaccinated with other families, that starts to amplify that risk.”
“In the last 30 days, one in four Chicago COVID cases have been in children under age 18, whereas over the whole pandemic, it’s been about half that, one in eight. Some of this is because there’s more testing happening, of course, in schools that we’ve talked about, but this is also just a reflection that many children are only now getting the opportunity to be vaccinated.”
Lynn, who played for the Cardinals from 2011-17, said after the game: “I’m not going to lie to you: That was probably the most satisfying win I’ve ever had in my career, not counting the playoffs. I enjoyed it quite a bit, beating them. It’s one of the teams I do not have a major-league win against, and now I do.”
It’s early, of course, and there are a lot of games left. The Bulls are not getting any taller, barring a trade, and they miss their big guy, Nikola Vučević, who is absent for the current five-game trip after a positive COVID-19 test but still is communicating from Chicago on group chats.