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9. Blow bubbles. Taking slow, deep breaths can be calming, as opposed to the shallow, fast breathing often spurred by anxiety. Bottari suggested bringing bubble solution to the appointment and having the child blow bubbles during the injection, to facilitate deep breathing as well as another method of distraction.
Birder John Longhenry takes a look at the Bell Bowl Prairie, adjacent to Chicago Rockford International Airport, on Oct. 20, 2021, in Winnebago County. Construction has begun on an 280-acre airport expansion that cuts through the 5-acre virgin gravel prairie containing at least 164 species of plants, bumblebees and rare nesting birds such as the grasshopper sparrow. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
The Dodgers’ Chris Taylor is congratulated after hitting a two-run home run in the second inning against the Braves in Game 5 of the NL Championship Series on Thursday in Los Angeles. Taylor hit three home runs in the Dodgers’ 11-2 victory. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
Early in the second, Brandon Hagel had a two-on-one going with Patrick Kane, but Kane fired high. Before the game, the Hawks paid tribute to Kane’s 1,000th career game (set on the road March 9 against the Dallas Stars), and Jonathan Toews presented him with a silver stick.
“Honestly, I really don’t understand a woman of color carrying the water for a guy who’s demonstrated over and over again he’s racist, he’s a misogynist, he’s xenophobic, he hates immigrants and refugees, he stands in support of the 1/6ers,” Lightfoot said, in an apparent reference to Catanzara’s history of inflammatory online posts, for which he faces potential firing from the Police Department. “I think people in her ward need to ask, why is it this alderwoman is carrying the water for a guy like that?”
Martesa Lee, a Chicago Transit Authority supervisor, was arrested after complaining to a Chicago police sergeant about an interaction she had with an officer at a crime scene at the Jackson Red Line station on Feb. 4, 2020. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
“Día de los Muertos teaches us to turn the pain, the grieving, into love and appreciation for the time we had those people in our lives, in our community,” said Isabel Hernandez, a longtime Pilsen resident who created a 15-foot ofrenda in her backyard to celebrate the life of more than 250 people lost to COVID-19.
DIxmoor’s economic development director, John Thompson, left, talks with public works Superintendent Hubert Darden, second from right, water operator Rufus Fisher, center, and an engineer outside a pumping station as ongoing water pressure problems continue in Dixmoor on Oct. 20, 2021. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
The Levys’ penthouse has one of the highest asking prices for a Chicago condo, trailing only the 14,260-square-foot penthouse on the 89th floor of the Trump International Hotel & Tower, which is listed for $30 million; a 71st-floor penthouse in the St. Regis Chicago, which is under contract with a $18.5 million asking price; an 8,000-square-foot duplex penthouse atop the co-op building at 1500 N. DuSable Lake Shore Drive, which is available for $16.9 million; and a 65th-floor penthouse in One Bennett Park, which is available for $15.17 million.
“I’ve got to tell you, what’s carrying this data is the neighborhood schools like Amundsen,” new CPS CEO Pedro Martinez said at a news conference at Amundsen High School on the North Side. “I will always applaud our amazing magnet schools and selective enrollment programs, but I’ll tell you, our neighborhood schools, when you look at the quality programming that we have, the outcomes that we are getting, I’m sorry, folks, I mean, I’ll put these schools against anybody in the country.”