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Andrew Alexander, the co-owner and former CEO of Chicago’s Second City improv group, sold his three-story, four-bedroom, vintage brick house in Lincoln Park for $1.68 million to a homebuilder who plans to demolish the house. (Bob Goldsborough / HANDOUT)
Tuesday’s change to Chicago’s travel advisory means there are now 45 states and two territories under Chicago’s travel advisory. California, Connecticut and Puerto Rico are the only other areas not subject to the recommended COVID-19 mitigations for unvaccinated travelers. Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland and Mississippi might get off the list next week.
Chicago Sky player Allie Quigley, right, poses for a photo with Natasha Parker, mother of Sky player Candace Parker, inside Wintrust Arena on Oct. 19, 2021. The Chicago Sky team was gathering for a parade through downtown Chicago and a rally to celebrate their WNBA championship title. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
Thompson, 51, who has served on the City Council since 2015, was charged in April in a seven-count indictment with filing false tax returns and lying to Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. officials about $219,000 in loans and other payments he’d received from Washington Federal Bank for Savings before it was shuttered in 2017.
“We are also looking to the CDC for continued guidance, on masking, physical distance (including at least 3 feet in schools), testing for the unvaccinated and symptomatic individuals, and vaccination. At this time, our top priority is protecting the health of the public while ensuring schools, businesses, and other settings can remain open.”
A better-known milestone came on June 28, 1969, when patrons at the Stonewall Inn, an LGBTQ bar in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, erupted in a protest that lasted six days. Police struggled with a lesbian, throwing her into a car, according to the exhibit, and “200 furious clubgoers struck back.”
South Loop restaurants and bars that have traditionally catered to office workers and business travelers have felt the impacts of COVID-19 longer than those in other neighborhoods and had to find ways to adapt, restaurateurs say. Nabil Moubayed, general manager of the Kimpton Gray, said the hotel originally wanted to reopen its cocktail bar Vol. 39 in April or May, but pushed that back to early August, 2021.
State Sen. Dave Syverson, a Republican legislative leader, warned against the bills even if they sounded minor. “It’s just getting the camel’s nose under the tent,” he said in an audio recording of the meeting obtained by KHN. “We’ll have, before long, hygienists doing the work that, if they wanted to do, they should have gone to dental school for.”
“Getting vaccinated is the single most important action we can take to protect ourselves, our families, our coworkers, and our community from COVID-19,” Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss said in a news release. “This mandate will help keep our staff and residents safe, and I am grateful to Interim City Manager Kelley Gandurski and the rest of our team for acting swiftly to put this critical measure in place.”
Jovan McPherson, of the 400 block of South Sherman Avenue in Elgin, has been charged on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery of a police officer, unlawful use of a firearm and resisting arrest, all in connection with the 3:30 p.m. shooting in the 1000 block of West North Avenue. The shooting left one officer with a “through and through” gunshot wound to his face, police Superintendent David Brown said at the time. McPherson allegedly fought with a second officer who eventually arrested him.