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They rode to the Thornton-Lansing Road Nature Preserve near Lansing, Illinois, where McGhee already had a spot picked, Thomas said. McGhee left with the suitcase, then returned less than a minute later, he testified. He didn’t see the body at the forest or actively participate, he said.
The agencies involved in the investigation are: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the East Chicago Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Gary Police Department, the Griffith Police Department, the Hammond Police Department, the Internal Revenue Service, the Lake County Sheriff’s Department, Lake County High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area officers and agents, the Merrillville Police Department, the Munster Police Department, and the Schererville Police Department. The Lake County Prosecutor’s Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Northern District of Illinois, Southern District of Indiana, Western District of Kentucky, and Western District of Pennsylvania also provided assistance.
Indiana expects it can immediately inoculate a third of Hoosier children ages 5-11 if the federal government expands Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for the age group, officials said during a news conference at the Indiana Statehouse Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021 In Indianapolis. Indiana’s chief medical officer Dr. Lindsay Weaver, left, watches as state health commissioner Dr. Kristina Box right, gives Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, a flu shot at the news conference to encourage others throughout the state to do the same. (Casey Smith/Report for America via AP) (Casey Smith/AP)
“While this is a tumultuous time, Christ the ‘Prince of Peace’ is always offering healing and the Holy Spirit is always seeking to unite those who love God, love their neighbor and love creation,” said the Rev. Perry Hamalis, a professor of religious studies at North Central College in west suburban Naperville and an Orthodox deacon. “Orthodox Christians are people of hope — regardless of how much despair spreads in the world — and the visit of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew spreads that hope in our great nation.”
FILE – In this May 7, 2020, file photo workers wait in line to enter the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, Ind. At least 59,000 meatpacking workers became ill with COVID-19 and 269 workers died when the virus tore through the industry last year, which is significantly more than previously thought, according to a new U.S. House report released Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. (Michael Conroy/AP)
A private security guard for Factor, a food preparation company, was walking around outside the building when he fell into a hole that was dug for utility work and got stuck, Aurora Fire Department Battalion Chief Jim Rhodes said. The man yelled to a coworker for help, and police and fire crews were then called to the site on the 2300 block of Indian Trail around 12:15 a.m.
Just past the midway point of the season, Big Ten offenses have scored on 80.6% of their trips inside the 20, including touchdowns on 55.6%. Both marks are lowest among the Power Five conferences and, among the 10 Football Bowl Subdivision leagues, only better than Conference USA’s rates of 80.4% and 50.4%, respectively.
In Australia, stay-at-home orders closed half of McDonald’s dining rooms during the quarter but delivery orders reached a record high. Kempczinski said that even when markets reopen, delivery demand remains elevated; the company doesn’t break out its percentage of delivery orders, but Kempczinksi said they have grown by “billions and billions” over the last few years.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks outside Walter R. Sundling Junior High School in Palatine, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona is on a tour of U.S. schools, celebrating the full return of in-person classroom this fall, despite the COVID-19 virus surging nationwide. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
“Listening to some of the speeches today, I feel like Christmas has come early,” said Southwest Side Ald. Raymond Lopez, who derided the spending as leading to a budget that’s “grossly out of balance.” The city should have tightened its belt, gotten rid of vacant employee positions and used the savings to give Chicagoans a tax break, Lopez said.