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As his family hid, they plotted. A helicopter was mentioned; a taxi. Plans kept changing. Eventually, a middle-of-the-night plan with buses helped his family members get to the airport, and onto planes. Landing in Doha, Qatar, they were kept on hot planes for hours. Reaching the U.S., at Dulles Airport, they stayed on the plane for 10 hours. Finally, in Chicago, Amer could hold them in his arms.

About 2:20 a.m., three men were found shot in Old Town in the 1300 block of North Hudson Avenue. A 41-year-old man was shot in the hip, lower backside and leg. He was transported in critical condition to Stroger Hospital. A second man, 40, was shot in the leg and transported to Northwestern Medical Center in fair condition. The third victim, age unknown, was grazed in the leg, and refused medical treatment. Police said no one is currently in custody and witnesses were not cooperating.

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The national unemployment rate, which peaked at 14.8% in April 2020, steadily dropped to a post-pandemic low of 5.2% in August, as vaccinations, business reopenings and pent-up consumer demand fueled a more robust recovery than many economists projected. It is not yet known if the delta variant will derail the recovery, but the abrupt end of the expanded federal unemployment benefits will put millions of people “in harm’s way,” Stettner said.

Susan Edwards, Blythe’s mother, said they arrived a few minutes before the 6:46 a.m. scheduled pickup time on Monday and Tuesday only to later learn the bus actually departed at 6:15 a.m. The headaches stretched into the afternoon, Edwards said, with the bus dropping Blythe off more than an hour after dismissal from her school, Galileo Scholastic Academy of Math & Science.

Susan Edwards, Blythe’s mother, said they arrived a few minutes before the 6:46 a.m. scheduled pickup time on Monday and Tuesday only to later learn the bus actually departed at 6:15 a.m. The headaches stretched into the afternoon, Edwards said, with the bus dropping Blythe off more than an hour after dismissal from her school, Galileo Scholastic Academy of Math & Science.

At least two economy lots remain inaccessible to travelers. Lot E is closed. Lot H was converted to paid employee parking in 2019, and though some employees were temporarily able to park closer to the terminals last year as part of “pandemic mitigation efforts,” they have since returned to other lots, including Lot H, Chicago Department of Aviation spokeswoman Christine Carrino said in an email.

The case involving the two officers also was the subject of a 2017 federal lawsuit filed by Joseph Baskins, the Black man who was with a group of friends and loved ones in a parking garage elevator, where they encountered Jarocki, Kelly and the sergeant, Patrick Gilmore. The trio, along with the city of Chicago, were named as defendants in the lawsuit, which the city settled with Baskins in 2019 for $450,000.